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Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing
By: David A. Treleaven, Willoughby Britton
Hardcover | 16 March 2018 | Edition Number 1
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From elementary schools to psychotherapy offices, mindfulness meditation is an increasingly mainstream practice. At the same time, trauma remains a fact of life: the majority of us will experience a traumatic event in our lifetime, and up to 20% of us will develop posttraumatic stress. This means that anywhere mindfulness is being practiced, someone in the room is likely to be struggling with trauma.
At first glance, this appears to be a good thing: trauma creates stress, and mindfulness is a proven tool for reducing it. But the reality is not so simple.
Drawing on a decade of research and clinical experience, psychotherapist and educator David Treleaven shows that mindfulness meditation--practiced without an awareness of trauma--can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. Instructed to pay close, sustained attention to their inner world, survivors can experience flashbacks, dissociation, and even retraumatization.
This raises a crucial question for mindfulness teachers, trauma professionals, and survivors everywhere: How can we minimize the potential dangers of mindfulness for survivors while leveraging its powerful benefits?
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness offers answers to this question. Part I provides an insightful and concise review of the histories of mindfulness and trauma, including the way modern neuroscience is shaping our understanding of both. Through grounded scholarship and wide-ranging case examples, Treleaven illustrates the ways mindfulness can help--or hinder--trauma recovery.
Part II distills these insights into five key principles for trauma-sensitive mindfulness. Covering the role of attention, arousal, relationship, dissociation, and social context within trauma-informed practice, Treleaven offers 36 specific modifications designed to support survivors' safety and stability. The result is a groundbreaking and practical approach that empowers those looking to practice mindfulness in a safe, transformative way.
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"This as an informative and readable book, which is evidence based, full of scholarly research as well as lively illustrative case stories and important, practical therapeutic wisdom." -- Human Givens
ISBN: 9780393709780
ISBN-10: 0393709787
Published: 16th March 2018
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 264
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 28.9 x 18 x 5.8
Weight (kg): 0.52
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