Crisis Intervention and Trauma Response: Theory and Practice

Have you found yourself dealing with a serious diagnosis of cancer? For all people no matter how strong they are, it comes the time to fall down into a sorrow and sadness. But now, you have a really best partner to face your problem strongly and move forward confidently: Crisis Intervention and Trauma Response: Theory and Practice. Crisis Intervention and Trauma Response: Theory and Practice is a book written by Barbara Rubin Wainrib, EdD. This book is intended to help people to pass their sorrow time because of cancer diagnosis. Written by a well-known and highly qualified clinical psychotherapist and psychologist, all poured into this ebook is based on a long and reputable research during her contribution in helping tons of people struggling with cancer.

The author has a long career in this field and all started in 1959 when she took clinical psychology class at McGill University and in 1976 continued her study in counseling psychology at the University of Massachusetts. Working with this topic for more than 23 years, Barbara really knows how it could be when someone gets diagnosed and named cancer patient. Living in a traumatic and awry situation, patient should have a good guide to walk with and for the reason; this book comes to the public. Made in therapeutic intervention approach, this book is designed to overcome patient’s perspective on what is going on in his/her body and push his/her to stand up straightly.

As this book is a guide, do not think of a hard-to read book and boring content anymore. This book is written in lively way and coupled by tons of real cases happening in cancer patient’s life. Instead of placing too much attention to pathologic side, the author takes her part in psychological aspect by which she focuses on internal motivation and strength. More or less, the concept applied on each section of this book and author’s thought is influenced by the theory of James G. The author knows that each patient no matter how deep he or she falls down has a blessed life to live with. That is why all exercises given on each section of the book are supposed to be the way of patient to find his/her verbal and nonverbal skill, deep awareness of both individual and society. Smartly, the author shows a crisis and trauma assessment checklist to practice the intervention well. This book should be recommended for not only patient but also therapists with the same cases found on their patients’ lives.