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Item Nr: B 96642 Title: Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Grade Lvl: T Author: Van Der Kolk, Bessel
Length: 464 Prod/Pub: Penquin Books
Copyright: 2014 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 14 days
 
  An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure. Transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring—specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. The author shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques, play, yoga, and other therapies. The Body Keeps the Score offers proven alternatives to drugs and talk therapy—and a way to reclaim lives. Post-traumatic stress disorder.

  Subjects:
  1314 - ABUSE
  1198 - ATTITUDE (PSYCHOLOGY)
  226 - BRAIN
  360 - COUNSELING
  434 - EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
  74 - MULTIPLE COPIES (2, 3, 4)
  896 - PSYCHOLOGY
  1613 - REQUEST--AEA
  2020 - SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING/SEL
  1465 - SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS/PERSONS
  1381 - STRESS
  1995 - TRAUMA SENSITIVE