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Self Soothing coping with everyday and extraordinary stress
Self Soothing coping with everyday and extraordinary stress Author:Gerrilyn Smith A training manual to help maintain emotional well-being using simple and effective techniques. Each module is standalone but can be run as a series. This versatile manual aims to teach a range of techniques and exercises that can be used by anyone, from children who have experienced trauma or unstable home lives to the parents struggling to care... more » for them, and from members of the emergency services to any workers at risk of experiencing secondary post-traumatic stress disorder. Each chapter provides background information to enable the trainer to enhance participants' understanding of the nature of stress and how these techniques can help, along with a range of exercises that can be used at any time to induce relaxation and avoid the consequences, both physiological and psychological, of chronic stress.« less