Building Resilience to Trauma: The Trauma and Community Resiliency Models / Edition 1

by Elaine Miller-Karas

Overview

After a traumatic experience, survivors often experience a cascade of physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral and spiritual responses that leave them feeling unbalanced and threatened. Building Resilience to Trauma explains these common responses from a biological perspective, reframing the human experience from one of shame and pathology to one of hope and biology. It also offers an alternative approach, the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM), which offers concrete and practical skills that resonate with what we know about the biology of trauma.

In programs co-sponsored by the World Health Organization, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, and the Department of Behavioral Health of San Bernadino County, the TRM has been used to reduce and in some cases eliminate the symptoms of trauma by helping survivors regain a sense of balance. Clinicians will find that they can use the model with anyone who has experienced or witnessed any event that was perceived as life threatening or posed a serious injury to themselves or to others. The model can also be used to treat symptoms of vicarious traumatization and compassion fatigue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415820585
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/05/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW, is the executive director and co-founder of the Trauma Resource Institute and is adjunct faculty at Loma Linda University’s School of Social Work and Social Ecology.

Table of Contents

Foreword Hunter Preface Miller-Karas 1. Resilience and Trauma Defined Miller-Karas 2. The Nervous System, Memory, and Trauma Miller-Karas and Sapp 3. The Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) Miller-Karas 4. Working with Children who Have Experienced Trauma: A Developmental Perpective Freeman and Miller-Karas 5. Attachment Strategies and Adult Behavior Miller-Karas and Burton 6. Veterans, Warriors, and Their Loved Ones Miller-Karas and Click 7. The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) Miller-Karas 8. Assessment and Interviewing Miller-Karas 9. Integration of TRM/CRM Wellness Skills into Group Settings Miller-Karas 10. Research Best Practices for International Environments Buckles and Miller-Karas Index

Editorial Reviews

"Elaine Miller-Karas’s second edition of Building Resilience to Trauma is a genuine act of empowerment. So many people have a lived experience of poor mental health through trauma, and she brings tools and hope to the many trying to manage and cope with these difficult and frightening sensations. Loud and clear we learn that we can do something about trauma if we follow the modeling she outlines clearly and concisely. I am proud to call Elaine a friend and her warmth and care shine through to empower us all!" Chris Underhill, MBE (Order of the British Empire), Skoll Foundation social entrepreneur, senior fellow with Ashoka Worldwide

"As we face a global pandemic, violent conflicts that threaten world peace, impending climate catastrophe, and the inevitable tragedies that follow from these events, it’s hard to imagine a more urgent time to learn and share Elaine Miller-Karas’s revolutionary approach to cultivating resilience in the face of trauma. Now updated with insights about bringing these down-to-earth techniques to the systems level and scaling them to larger populations, this second edition promises to strengthen our collective will to bounce back from trauma and to make these basic human skills more accessible and available to all who need them. Which is to say, each one of us." Timothy Harrison, associate director for Cognitively Based Compassion Training, Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics, Emory University

"We heartily recommend Building Resilience to Trauma. We have been friends and students of Elaine's for over a decade. We include elements from the community and trauma resiliency models in everything that we offer around the world. Elaine is a manifestation of courageous compassion and great generosity. She is a creative innovator in the wellness revolution. Her models are pragmatic useful tools that provide trauma recognition and healing into our natural resilience." Larry Ward, author of America's Racial Karma, coauthor with Peggy Rowe Ward of Love's Garden, and codirector of The Lotus Institute

From the Publisher

Reviewer: Gerald A Steckmeister, MSCJ (Boston University)
Description: This book discusses the brain's response to stress and how this response may, at times, be counterproductive. This second edition includes an additional six chapters and is updated with lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Purpose: The purpose of the book is to provide mental health clinicians with wellness, stress mitigation, and resiliency techniques through the lens of the Trauma Resiliency Model and the Community Resiliency Model. These notable objectives are achieved through well-cited text and several case studies.
Audience: The book is targeted toward mental health professionals. However, it will also be beneficial to students and others researching wellness, resilience, and trauma. While the book is written with these audiences in mind, it does not include overly technical language. The book assembles 13 well-qualified contributors, including six with doctorate degrees.
Features: The book covers trauma, wellness, and resilience. It provides stress mitigation and resilience-building techniques to reduce the impact of traumatic stress. As the subtitle suggests, the book emphasizes the Trauma Resiliency Model and the Community Resiliency Model. Several chapters are dedicated to special populations, such as children and veterans.
Assessment: This book is similar to Positive Health: 100+ Research-based Positive Psychology and Lifestyle Medicine Tolls to Enhance Your Wellbeing, Burke et al. (Routledge, 2023). However, the former has a more specific focus.

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