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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 Possible Resources (or information about/links to) │ 8. Focusing │ 1 Focusing instructions

1 Focusing instructions

 

 

 

Link to ‘An Introduction to Focusing: Six Steps’, The International Focusing Institute, <www.focusing.org/sixsteps.html>

 

 

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