Clients are better able to cope with stressors and triggers when they can handle the resulting emotions.
So how can we help clients who are struggling to manage anxiety, anger, and grief caused by everyday stressors?
Introduction
The Body Keeps Score is a groundbreaking book by psychiatrist and trauma expert Van der Kolk. We all understand the effect that psychological trauma can have on people. Trauma can affect the way people perceive themselves and the world around them. Psychological trauma can have a lasting impact on the individual’s loved ones as well. In this book, Van der Kolk covers the intricacies of how trauma produces these effects while considering the neuroscience involved. Van der Kolk also presents the ways in which neuroscience enables us to produce new and effective treatments for survivors of psychological trauma. Some examples of these approaches are eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, yoga, and limbic system therapy. Van der Kolk guides us through these modern therapies by recalling his career and the patients they have seen. Thus, this book also serves as a history of the mental health field of the last 30 years.
After learning about these stories, you will better understand how our brain reacts to psychological trauma and how it deals with it. What Van der Kolk recommends is helping survivors of psychological trauma to recover.
Article courtesy of Life Club and written by Bessel van der Kolk
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