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Possible Resources for Supporting You
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Creating Safety
1. Checklists
2. Create/Build a ‘Safety Plan’
3. Build/Create a ‘Support System’
4. Practice ‘Self-soothing activities/strategies’
5. Resolve, get out of or reduce exposure to abusive relationships
Some information about renting from a Housing Association in Glasgow
6. If you have a food addiction, love addiction, sex addiction or drug addiction consider a self-help support group
Some information about Overeaters Anonymous
Some information about Narcotics Anonymous
7. Some Suggestions for Helping with Flashbacks
Some information
about Abuse and Boundaries in Relationships
1. Information
‘Abuse and Types of Abuse’
‘The Pattern/Process of Prolonged and Repeated Abuse within a Relationship’
‘The Pattern/Process of Prolonged and Repeated Abuse within a Relationship in Childhood (‘Child Abuse’)’
‘The Pattern/Process of Prolonged and Repeated Sexual Abuse within a Relationship in Childhood (‘Child Sexual Abuse’)’
‘Boundaries in Relationships’
2. Links to websites
3. Links to books/workbooks
Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self
A Gift To Myself: A Personal Workbook and Guide to Healing The Child Within
Soul Survivors: A New Beginning for Adults Abused as Children (by Patrick Gannon)
Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse
4. Checklists and severity rating scales
Prolonged and Repeated Abuse within a Relationship/Relationships within a Group
about Trauma and Dissociation
1. Information
‘Trauma, Types of Trauma and its Cause/their Causes’
‘Complex Trauma Arsing out of Prolonged and Repeated Abuse Within a Relationship’
‘Trauma and the Body’
‘Uses of Dissociation’
‘Some Suggestions for Working with Trauma and Helping with Flashbacks’
Some Medical/Psychiatric Diagnoses
2. Links to websites
3. Links to books/workbooks
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing
Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children
I Can’t Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors
4. Checklists and severity/frequency rating scales
about Self-harm/injury
1. Information
‘Self-harm/injury as a Response to Prolonged and Repeated Abuse’
‘Self-harm/injury as a Way to Self-soothe’
‘Some Suggestions for Helping with Self injury’
‘Some Information about Scars’
‘Some other Self-soothing Activities/Strategies’
2. Website link and book link
A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain
Some Possible Resources
1. Online communities
2. Workbooks & books
Workbooks mainly on Creating Safety/Stability
Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing
Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children
Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse
Workbooks mainly on Approaching Feelings/Memories and Integration
A Gift To Myself: A Personal Workbook and Guide to Healing The Child Within
Soul Survivors: A New Beginning for Adults Abused as Children
paper/hardback
ebook
Survivor to Thriver free download
Survivor to Thriver free web book
I Can’t Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors
Books
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
3. Checklists and severity/frequency rating scales (for traumatic, abusive and dissociative experiences)
Traumatic/Abusive Experiences Severity Scale
Childhood Traumatic/Abusive Experiences Severity Scale
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Checklist
Dissociative Experiences Frequency Scale
4. Self-help support groups
Online/by phone
Some information about Adult Survivors of Child Abuse
Some information about Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families
Some information about Co-Dependents Anonymous
in Glasgow
5. Other groups
i. Structured groupwork for women who have been sexually abused
ii. Group therapy
iii. Encounter groups etc
6. Private hospital/clinic
7. Meditation
1 Guided breath and metta meditations
2 Meditation groups and retreat
8. Focusing
1 Focusing instructions
Link to ‘An Introduction to Focusing: Six Steps’ (The International Focusing Institute)
2 Guided focusing sessions and short courses
9. Other checklists and exercises
Section I (Surfacing feelings/experiencing)
Some of My Needs
Who am I?
Naming/Describing some of My Feelings
Working with My Anger
Boundaries in Relationships
Section II
Stressful experiences/events
Writing an unsent letter
Some Body Attitudes
My Loss History
Some Habitual Ways of Disconnecting from Others
Section III (Strengthening myself)
Some Spiritual Attitudes
A Focus(es) for How You may Use Counselling
Personal Questionnaire
Problem Questionnaire (exercise to create a Personal Questionnaire)
Strathclyde Inventory – 16
Strathclyde Inventory
Process Continuum Scale
Reviewing counselling
Change Form
Helpful Aspects of Therapy Form
Post-Session Questionnaire
Therapeutic Relationship Scale
Some information
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about Trauma and Dissociation
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1. Information
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‘Trauma and the Body’
‘Trauma and the Body’