Trauma counselling

Principles and practice in South Africa today

Alida Herbst, Gerda Reitsma (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

324 Seiten

2015
Juta (Verlag)
978-1-4851-0372-1 (ISBN)

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South Africa has one of the highest rates of extreme violence cases in the world, which has created a critical need for counsellors to be trained specifically in this area. In Trauma counselling: Principles and practice in South Africa today, a team of academics and practitioners have compiled a hands-on, yet theoretically grounded and evidence-based South African textbook on counselling victims of trauma. The first part of this publication focuses on the range of potentially traumatic events that commonly occur in South Africa. It clearly describes themes related to traumatic events and traumatic stress and introduces the basic principles of trauma counselling. This section also focuses on how traumatic stress may manifest in different client groups. The second part aims to familiarise students with a range of strategies suitable for trauma counselling, such as brief interventions, cognitive behaviour therapy, the narrative approach, strength-based interventions and integrated or alternative approaches.
The final chapter is a personal one, in which the authors reflect on the lessons they have learnt from their own practice and the techniques they have developed to protect themselves from vicarious trauma.

Professor Alida Herbst is a registered social worker and director of the school of psychosocial behavioural sciences at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University. Her research focuses on the use of narrative to promote the psychosocial health of individuals, groups and communities. She has extensive experience as a social worker in public and private hospitals with expertise in trauma and bereavement counselling. Dr Gerda Reitsma is a senior lecturer in the faculty of health sciences at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University, where she is responsible for health science education. She is particularly committed to the development of teachers in higher education and the study of teaching and learning. Her pedagogical expertise has made a valuable contribution to the teaching and learning activities of this publication.

Chapter 1: What is traumatic stress?; Chapter 2: A basic understanding of trauma counselling; Chapter 3: The context of community trauma in South Africa; Chapter 4: Trauma counselling related to health, illness and death; Chapter 5: Traumatic incidents in the family context; Chapter 6: The phenomenology of rape in South Africa; Chapter 7: Understanding the effects of indirect trauma; Chapter 8: Brief interventions; Chapter 9: Cognitive behavioural informed trauma counselling; Chapter 10: Narrative practices in trauma care, support and counselling; Chapter 11: Strengths-based interventions in trauma counselling; Chapter 12: An integrated approach to working with trauma; Chapter 13: Care sense: The importance of self-care for counsellors.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.05.2018
Verlagsort	Kenwyn
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-4851-0372-X / 148510372X
ISBN-13	978-1-4851-0372-1 / 9781485103721
Zustand	Neuware