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Promoting Positive Processes after Trauma

By: Elizabeth M. Altmaier

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Promoting Positive Processes after Trauma

By: Elizabeth M. Altmaier

Promoting Positive Processes After Trauma targets one of the most damaging effects of trauma, ongoing impairment across the whole of "living." Viewing clients with trauma histories from the perspectives of their shared experiences is the foundation for the application of six strengths and virtues studied by positive psychology: hope, positive emotions, resilience, forgiveness, spirituality and religiosity, and meaning-making. The lived trauma experience of the contributing author illustrates actual means of change - Presents foundational information and newest findings from trauma and from positive psychology - Covers strengths and virtues that can be directly targeted in treatment or used as ancillary treatment goals - Provides further readings suitable for clients and for clinicians - Concludes with an integrative exploration of the organization of positive processes and their integration into portfolios.

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Academic Press

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0128119764

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9780128119761

Push Back the Dark

Companioning Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

By: Elizabeth M. Altmaier

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Push Back the Dark

Companioning Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

By: Elizabeth M. Altmaier

Adults in your church, small group, or other Christian organization are silently suffering the tragic consequences of having been sexually abused as children or youth. Why aren't they coming forward for help? Their reluctance may be related to wounds given by the faithful--religious people they trusted, who said things like "well, it wasn't rape" or "it's been thirty years--why is this such a big deal?" Such responses from people with religious authority deepen victims' need to shrink into anxiety, depression, and self-degradation. This book offers you the tools needed to undertake caring ministry to adults suffering in the aftermath of childhood sexual abuse. Once you understand the scientific research on such topics as trauma memory, consequences of abuse, and forgiveness, you will appreciate how caring collaboration can create hope and healing. In these pages every reader will find helpful content that will take you from feeling out of your depth to knowing you are empowered to be an effective companion in God's transforming work in the lives of survivors of abuse.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498202098

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9781498202091

Global Promise: Quality Assurance and Accountability in Professional Psychology

By: Judy Hall,Elizabeth Altmaier

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Global Promise: Quality Assurance and Accountability in Professional Psychology

By: Judy Hall,Elizabeth Altmaier

Psychology has become a global profession. Professionals are now readily able to practice in geographic areas far from where they were trained. In practice, psychology has a social contract with the public to promote human and societal welfare, all the while responsible for the constant upkeep of systems that promote, maintain, and demand quality from health care professionals. In Global Promise: Quality Assurance and Accountability in Professional Psychology, editors Judy E. Hall and Elizabeth M. Altmaier examine the tools needed for evaluating the crucial components of quality assurance- education, training, accreditation and designation, licensing and credentialing, ethics, mobility, and continuing professional development- from an international perspective, with a specific focus on practices in the United States, Canada, the European Union, Latin America, Australia, and The Netherlands and vignettes on the United Kingdom, China and South Africa. An international team of contributors synthesizes the progress made in implementing quality assurance mechanisms across the globe and offers diverse perspectives as to how the wider international community can promote quality and mobility. With an eye toward the future of psychology as well as on the systems that will support it, Global Promise is required reading for universities, regulatory bodies, professional associations, professionals and students.

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Oxford University Press

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0190294329

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9780190294328

Leaving Darkness Behind

Recovery From Childhood Sexual Abuse

By: Elizabeth M. Altmaier

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Leaving Darkness Behind

Recovery From Childhood Sexual Abuse

By: Elizabeth M. Altmaier

This book provides a psychologically informed perspective on childhood sexual abuse. Its goal is to help you orient yourself toward recovery and learn healthy practices that will lead to thriving, not just surviving. Written by an author who is herself a survivor, this guide describes how complex trauma affects your overall health. On that knowledge foundation you are invited to build strengths in various areas of your life, such as meaning-making, connections with others, and hope.

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American Psychological Association

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143383829X

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9781433838293

Intervention in Occupational Stress

A Handbook of Counselling for Stress at Work

By: Randall R. Ross,Elizabeth M. Altmaier

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Intervention in Occupational Stress

A Handbook of Counselling for Stress at Work

By: Randall R. Ross,Elizabeth M. Altmaier

An excellent introduction.... Readers of this journal looking for a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field of stress management will find this book to be more than adequate for this purpose. Perhaps the book's greatest strength is the way it has managed to combine insights and research from both occupational psychology and clinical psychology to tackle workplace stress. Cary Cooper would surely be pleased with the authors' efforts at what he has termed "clinical occupational" psychology' - "International Journal of Social Psychiatry " This practical guide focuses on the intervention strategies which can be employed by counsellors to help individuals suffering from emotional and physiological stresses engendered in the workplace. With key points illustrated by case studies, chapters define the nature of occupational stress and provide information about the emotional, behavioural, physiological and cognitive symptoms which can occur. The authors also discuss the factors influencing the problem: factors which can be tied to the individual, to the work setting and to the larger social context. Specific coping strategies explored are targeted both at the individual, for example relaxation training and stress management programmes, and at the workplace, for instance job redesign and career planning. Finally, methods that practitioners can use to evaluate their interventions are presented in detail.

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