When Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery
When Trauma Survivors Return To Work explains how managers and co-workers can help foster the process of emotional recovery for employees who have been traumatized and are returning to work.
No other source clearly and positively teaches managers and co-workers how to treat fellow workers returning to the workplace after experiencing a rape, a burglary, an armed assault, a violent accident, or witnessing a brutal crime. No one explains what to say to those who have just been told they have a terminal illness, or how to treat an employee whose close family member has committed suicide. It is not helpful for co-workers to deny such traumatic events or remain silent, which is what often happens, or for managers to avoid directly communicating with the traumatized employee. Is there something that managers and co-workers can do to be truly helpful to such sensitively wounded people? The answer is yes.
In this illuminating educational approach, Dr. Barski-Carrow shows how managers and co-workers can learn simple ways to make the workplace a better environment for emotional healing.
Barski-Carrow offers a simple, well-researched way to provide those basic practical skills and, with absorbing stories, shows how relationships in the workplace can indeed provide a healing force for traumatic experiences.
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When Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery
When Trauma Survivors Return To Work explains how managers and co-workers can help foster the process of emotional recovery for employees who have been traumatized and are returning to work.
No other source clearly and positively teaches managers and co-workers how to treat fellow workers returning to the workplace after experiencing a rape, a burglary, an armed assault, a violent accident, or witnessing a brutal crime. No one explains what to say to those who have just been told they have a terminal illness, or how to treat an employee whose close family member has committed suicide. It is not helpful for co-workers to deny such traumatic events or remain silent, which is what often happens, or for managers to avoid directly communicating with the traumatized employee. Is there something that managers and co-workers can do to be truly helpful to such sensitively wounded people? The answer is yes.
In this illuminating educational approach, Dr. Barski-Carrow shows how managers and co-workers can learn simple ways to make the workplace a better environment for emotional healing.
Barski-Carrow offers a simple, well-researched way to provide those basic practical skills and, with absorbing stories, shows how relationships in the workplace can indeed provide a healing force for traumatic experiences.
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When Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery

When Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery

by Barbara Barski-Carrow
When Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery

When Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery

by Barbara Barski-Carrow

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When Trauma Survivors Return To Work explains how managers and co-workers can help foster the process of emotional recovery for employees who have been traumatized and are returning to work.
No other source clearly and positively teaches managers and co-workers how to treat fellow workers returning to the workplace after experiencing a rape, a burglary, an armed assault, a violent accident, or witnessing a brutal crime. No one explains what to say to those who have just been told they have a terminal illness, or how to treat an employee whose close family member has committed suicide. It is not helpful for co-workers to deny such traumatic events or remain silent, which is what often happens, or for managers to avoid directly communicating with the traumatized employee. Is there something that managers and co-workers can do to be truly helpful to such sensitively wounded people? The answer is yes.
In this illuminating educational approach, Dr. Barski-Carrow shows how managers and co-workers can learn simple ways to make the workplace a better environment for emotional healing.
Barski-Carrow offers a simple, well-researched way to provide those basic practical skills and, with absorbing stories, shows how relationships in the workplace can indeed provide a healing force for traumatic experiences.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761850311
Publisher: University Press of America
Publication date: 04/27/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 180
File size: 253 KB

About the Author

Barbara Barski-Carrow earned her doctorate in adult education and human resources from Virginia Tech and is principal of Carrow Associates. Her work focuses on professional relationships, helping managers and employees relate better when individuals return to work after a traumatic life event. Through more than thirty years of experience in the field, she has created educational forums for senior management in both the public and private sectors.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction Robert A. Neimeyer xi

Part I Understanding the Traumatic Life Experience (TLE)

1 Why I Wrote This Book 3

2 What Is a Traumatic Life Experience (TLE)? 13

3 What Is It Like to Be a Returning TLE Employee? 18

4 What Can Managers Do? 24

5 What Do You Tell Co-Workers? 32

6 What Does Psychology Tell Us about Trauma? 44

7 What Can an Employee Assistance Program Do? 56

Part II Taking Practical Steps

8 What Is a Study Circle? 69

9 How Does an Organization Set Up a Study Circle? 84

10 Putting Out a Welcome Mat: The First Study Circle 96

11 Lending a Listening Ear: The Second Study Circle 109

12 Offering a Helping Hand: The Third Study Circle 123

Part III Some Special Circumstances

13 When an Entire Group Is Traumatized, How Do Managers and Employees Cope? 139

14 How Does an Employee's Trauma Affect His Children? 145

15 How Can You Help Yourself after a Traumatic Life Experience? 151

16 What Challenges Face a Facilitator? 155

Appendix: Study Circle Handouts 163

References 165

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