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Help for the Helper

Preventing Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma in an Ever-Changing World: Updated + Expanded

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Help for the Helper

By: Babette Rothschild
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
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An essential resource for helping professionals, updated for today's challenges.

Since the publication of the first edition of Help for the Helper in 2006, the world has changed. Significantly. Due to existing and growing threats of war, increasing areas of civil unrest, the COVID-19 pandemic, financial collapse, natural disasters, and more, therapists and other helping professionals now often find themselves in a particularly tricky position: They are struggling to personally cope with traumas and massive stresses that are very similar to those experienced by their clients and others they serve.

To address these unique challenges, this revised and expanded edition now includes guidance for helping clients while maintaining therapists' own safety and sanity in crisis situations, managing the usual stresses and challenges during normal times, and tips for dealing with trauma when that is not a therapist's specialty. Topics include the neurophysiology and regulation of arousal, self-care during shared community/world crises, maintaining balance and strength, countertransference, somatic empathy, mirroring, and mimicry.

©2023 Babette Rothschild (P)2022 Tantor Psychology & Mental Health Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders Mental Health Psychology Health
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Reading this will change your life and the way you practice therapy! Rothschild offers valuable information and effective techniques to help with self-care and connecting with your innerworld!

A must read!

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This book was very refreshing to read. In my training as a marriage and family therapist I have been told countless times how important empathy for clients is. Rothschild here presents a compelling case for why empathy is an important tool for those in helping professions but warms that when left unchecked, it could lead to burnout, and writes convincingly that empathy at all times is not the right approach.

A much needed, nuanced view of empathy

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I really appreciate the content and how easily it's laid out and understandable. the exercises proposed are easy to implement immediately into everyday life.

Great book!

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