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Book SynopsisWhen Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery explains how managers and co-workers can learn to foster the process of emotional recovery for traumatized employees returning to the workplace. No other resource teaches managers and co-workers how to treat fellow co-workers returning to the workplace after experiencing a violent accident, rape, a burglary, or armed robbery. Or what to say to those who have just been told they have a terminal illness. Or how to treat an employee whose close family member has committed suicide. It is not helpful for co-workers to deny such traumatic events or remain silent, which is what happens. Or for managers to avoid directly communicating with traumatized employees. Is there a short and simple way to teach managers and co-workers how to be truly helpful to such wounded people? The answer is Dr. Barski-Carrow’s illuminating, example-filled book, When Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery.
Trade ReviewDealing with traumatized people returning to work is a major problem. Barski-Carrow has hit on an issue that is relevant in today’s society. She has provided both co-workers and managers, an easily understandable format—a helpful and caring way of dealing with people returning to the workplace after a trauma. -- Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
This is a must read for employee’s re-entering the workplace after a trauma. If you want an enlightened guide for post-trauma healing and recovery—this is it!! -- April Ryan, White House Correspondent-American Urban Radio Networks; CNN Analyst; author
Table of ContentsPART I. UNDERSTANDING THE TRAUMATIC LIFE EXPERIENCE (TLE) 1Why I Wrote This Book 2What is a Traumatic Life Experience (TLE)? 3What Is It Like to Be a Returning TLE Employee? 4What Can Managers Do? 5What To Tell Co-Workers? 6What Does Psychology Tell Us About Trauma? 7What Can an Employee Assistance Program Do? PART II. TAKING PRACTICAL STEPS 8What is a Dialogue Circle? 9How to Set Up a Dialogue Circle? 10Putting Out a Welcome Mat: The First Dialogue Circle 11Lending a Listening Ear: The Second Dialogue Circle 12Offering a Helping Hand: The Third Dialogue Circle PART III. SOME SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES 13When an Entire Group Is Traumatized 14What Challenges Does a Facilitator Face? 15Helping Yourself after a Traumatic Life Experience 16How Does an Employee’s Trauma Affect His Children?
