Self Soothing
Coping with Everyday & Extraordinary Stress
Published on 9. December 2013
Book
Spiral bound
74 pages
978-1-909810-48-8 (ISBN)
Description
A training manual to help maintain emotional well-being using simple and effective techniques. Each module is standalone but can be run as a series. This versatile manual aims to teach a range of techniques and exercises that can be used by anyone, from children who have experienced trauma or unstable home lives to the parents struggling to care for them, and from members of the emergency services to any workers at risk of experiencing secondary post-traumatic stress disorder. Each chapter provides background information to enable the trainer to enhance participants' understanding of the nature of stress and how these techniques can help, along with a range of exercises that can be used at any time to induce relaxation and avoid the consequences, both physiological and psychological, of chronic stress.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hove
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-909810-48-8 (9781909810488)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Gerrilyn Smith is the National CAMHS Consultant for Advanced Child Care. She has worked as a clinical psychologist in child and adolescent mental health services since qualifying in 1978. At the same time as qualifying as a clinical psychologist, she became involved with the London Rape Crisis Centre, working on the telephone counselling line, which she did for many years. Gerrilyn trained as a systemic psychotherapist in the early 1980s and she is EMDR trained and also holds a teaching certificate in Kundalini Yoga. Gerrilyn has also written and published extensively.
Content
Contents include: Why stress management is essential as part of creating and maintaining well being; The impact of trauma and chronic stress on the body and mind; Focus on the breath; Focus on seeing; Focus on the body; Focus on smelling; Focus on hearing; Focus on touching.