Trauma and Attachment - by Christina Reese (Paperback)

About the Book

Christina Reese has dedicated her life's work to helping those with trauma cope to live healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives. In her newest book, Trauma and Attachment, she has created a resource to guide clients from a place of fear, anxiety, and trauma to healthy attachment. In this comprehensive yet accessible book, Dr. Reese provides an attachment framework for treating clients who have experienced a multitude of traumas, ranging from abuse and neglect to medical traumas, natural disasters, and exposure to violence. Through a variety of worksheets, exercises, and activities, this book provides clients with the tools they need to develop a foundation for healing so they can find feelings of safety and security within relationships again. Inside, clinicians will find tools to help clients heal from the impact of: - Abuse by helping them establish safety and security within relationships. - Neglect by teaching them to find their voice and express their needs. - Medical trauma by helping them adjust to a new normal and better tolerate uncertainty. - Natural disasters by using mindful grounding techniques to navigate sensory triggers and cultivate mind-body awareness. - Witnessing violence by restoring clients' sense of felt safety and helping clients identify what they can control to keep themselves safe.

Book Synopsis

Christina Reese has dedicated her life's work to helping those with trauma cope to live healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives. In her newest book, Trauma and Attachment, she has created a resource to guide clients from a place of fear, anxiety, and trauma to healthy attachment.

In this comprehensive yet accessible book, Dr. Reese provides an attachment framework for treating clients who have experienced a multitude of traumas, ranging from abuse and neglect to medical traumas, natural disasters, and exposure to violence. Through a variety of worksheets, exercises, and activities, this book provides clients with the tools they need to develop a foundation for healing so they can find feelings of safety and security within relationships again.

Inside, clinicians will find tools to help clients heal from the impact of:

- Abuse by helping them establish safety and security within relationships.

- Neglect by teaching them to find their voice and express their needs.

- Medical trauma by helping them adjust to a new normal and better tolerate uncertainty.

- Natural disasters by using mindful grounding techniques to navigate sensory triggers and cultivate mind-body awareness.

- Witnessing violence by restoring clients' sense of felt safety and helping clients identify what they can control to keep themselves safe.

Review Quotes

This book is essential for our field―filled with valuable tips and resources, not only to understand and heal from trauma, but also to understand and heal relationships. The beginning provides a powerful overview about the impact of trauma, the stress response, as well as the importance of relationship in treatment. The quote "people do not follow directions given by someone with who they do not feel safe," captures the essence of our experiences with youth and sets the stage for the activities and resources provided. There is a variety of strategies, checklist, assessment tools and worksheets to help guide you through the healing process. This is a great resource to not only help clients, but to change our behavior so that we can create a more supportive environment for healing.

--Dana Wyss PhD, LMFT, ATR-BC, Co-author of The Invisible String Workbook

Trauma and Attachment is a gem of a book for mental health clinicians! Throughout this workbook, Dr. Reese breaks down and explains complex trauma and attachment information into easily understood language for clients as well as clinicians, giving the reader a wide variety of interventions, questionnaires, worksheets, and more to help their adult clients begin to understand how to repair, rebuild, and create secure attachment within their relationships. This book belongs on every clinician's bookcase.

--Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S, Creator of Attachment Centered Play Therapy

Wow!!! As I read this book, the word "'wow"' came to mind over and over again. Dr. Reese has taken the time to expertly and succinctly describe and explain trauma and resilience through educational content and powerful stories. She has developed many useful implementation tools for counselors who work with families. The tools complement the learning and include exercises from assessment inventories to trauma processing activities to cognitive behavioral strategies for improving relationships, emotional regulation, and social skills. Counselors will find having the content and tools included in one book an extremely useful resource for in their work.

--Casey Call, PhD, LPC, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Associate Director of Education, Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development

About the Author

Christina Reese, PhD, LCPC, has been working with children and families impacted by trauma for the last 20 years. Dr. Reese is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Maine, Maryland, and Pennsylvania and is a licensed clinical supervisor. She received her master's degree in community counseling from McDaniel College and her PhD in counselor education from George Washington University. She has authored several books, including Attachment: 60 Trauma-Informed Assessment and Treatment Interventions Across the Lifespan, Puzzle Pieces: Parenting a Child Impacted by Attachment and Other Traumas, and The Attachment Connection: Technology, Mental Health and Our Current Attachment Crisis.