The Little Book of Trauma Healing: Revised & Updated

The Little Book of Trauma Healing: Revised & Updated by Carolyn Yoder addresses pressing questions such as how we can effectively confront the threat of terrorism, what contributes to long-term security, what halts cycles of victimhood, and the role Restorative Justice can play. This fully updated edition offers insightful answers.

In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, in collaboration with Church World Service, was called upon to equip religious and civil leaders to assist traumatised communities. The initiative led to the creation of the Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) programmes. STAR director Carolyn Yoder presents the strategies and insights gleaned from these initiatives in this newly updated book, aimed at all who have experienced terrorism and understand the importance of security.

Topics covered include:

• Trauma as a call to change and transformation
• Societal or collective trauma
• The physiological impact of trauma
• The effects of ongoing trauma
• Limitations of understanding unhealed trauma through a PTSD lens
• Incomplete grieving
• The importance of acknowledgment
• Reconnection with oneself and others
• Preventing trauma by learning to wage peace
• And much more.

This is a startlingly helpful approach, included in The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding Series.