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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies: Your plain-Engish guide to understanding PTSD, getting help, and getting better. A Reference for the Rest of Us (For Dummies Series) - Softcover

Goulston, Mark

 
9780470049228: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies: Your plain-Engish guide to understanding PTSD, getting help, and getting better. A Reference for the Rest of Us (For Dummies Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0470049227 ISBN 13: 9780470049228
Verlag: For Dummies, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

As Dr. Mark Goulston tells his patients who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), "The fact that you’re still afraid doesn’t mean you’re in any danger. It just takes the will and the way for your heart and soul to accept what the logical part of your mind already knows." In Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies, Dr. Goulston helps you find the will and shows you the way.

A traumatic event can turn your world upside down, but there is a path out of PTSD. This reassuring guide presents the latest on effective treatments that help you combat fear, stop stress in its tracks, and bring joy back into your life. You'll learn how to:

  • Identify PTSD symptoms and get a diagnosis
  • Understand PTSD and the nature of trauma
  • Develop a PTSD treatment plan
  • Choose the ideal therapist for you
  • Decide whether cognitive behavior therapy is right for you
  • Weight the pros and cons of PTSD medications
  • Cope with flashbacks, nightmares, and disruptive thoughts
  • Maximize your healing
  • Manage your recovery, both during and after treatment
  • Help a partner, child or other loved one triumph over PTSD
  • Know when you're getting better
  • Get your life back on track

Whether you're a trauma survivor with PTSD or the caregiver of a PTSD sufferer, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies, gives you the tools you need to win the battle against this disabling condition.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Goulston, MD, an expert on PTSD, suicide prevention, and violence intervention, maintains a private clinical practice. He has taught or lectured at UCLA, USC, and Fortune 500 companies and has trained FBI and police hostage negotiators.

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Cope with flashbacks, nightmares, and disruptive thoughts

Help your heart accept what your mind already knows
and overcome PTSD

A traumatic event can turn your world upside down but just because you're still afraid doesn't mean you're still in danger. There is a path out of PTSD, and this reassuring guide presents the latest on effective treatments that help to combat fear, stop stress in its tracks, and bring joy back to life.

Discover how to:

  • Identify PTSD symptoms and get a diagnosis
  • Choose the ideal therapist for you
  • Weigh the pros and cons of medications
  • Maximize your healing
  • Help a partner, child, or other loved one triumph over PTSD

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Cope with flashbacks, nightmares, and disruptive thoughts

Help your heart accept what your mind already knows
— and overcome PTSD

A traumatic event can turn your world upside down — but just because you're still afraid doesn't mean you're still in danger. There is a path out of PTSD, and this reassuring guide presents the latest on effective treatments that help to combat fear, stop stress in its tracks, and bring joy back to life.

Discover how to:

  • Identify PTSD symptoms and get a diagnosis
  • Choose the ideal therapist for you
  • Weigh the pros and cons of medications
  • Maximize your healing
  • Help a partner, child, or other loved one triumph over PTSD

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Verlag
For Dummies
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0470049227
ISBN 13 
9780470049228
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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