Second-Hand Shock - by Vicki Carpel Miller & Ellie Izzo (Paperback)

About the Book

Helping professionals can experience burnout and compassion fatigue as a result of their work, but what about those suffering debilitating problems like depression, anxiety, addiction, obesity, or immune disorders? The cause could be vicarious trauma. Includes The Aftershock Workbook, your step-by-step guide through the Rapid Advance Process.

Book Synopsis

In this second edition of Second-Hand Shock, including the Aftershock Workbook, the experts explore the subtle and covert ways that absorbing others' trauma while controlling empathy can lead to vicarious trauma by gradually altering the structure of the brain, negatively affecting the mind and ultimately desensitizing, numbing, and causing these disturbances. Working through the Aftershock Workbook provides healing and relief.

Offering acknowledgment and hope to the millions of helping professionals, Second-Hand Shock and the Aftershock Workbook, guide helping professionals through the Rapid Advance Process to recovery. Once you recognize the warning signs and symptoms of vicarious trauma, you will find relief and recovery as you work through your own vicarious trauma through the Aftershock Workbook.

About the Author

Vicki Carpel Miller is co-founder and Director of Vicarious Trauma Institute. As a Registered Nurse and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice, she specializes in the practice of Collaborative Divorce, the treatment of Vicarious Trauma, divorce-related issues, and blended families. Vicki holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Minnesota and a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Nova University in Florida. She is co-director of the Collaborative Divorce Institute and the Vicarious Trauma Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona.