Compassion Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress

Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress is a workbook of individual and group compassion-based practices that incorporate mindfully contemplative stress-reduction activities and arts-based practices. Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress is a comprehensive guide that merges profound theoretical insights with practical compassion-based practices. Tailored for helping professionals working with survivors of trauma, this book illuminates a path toward addressing secondary traumatic stress and promoting vicarious posttraumatic growth through a compassionate lens. Distinguished by its in-depth and hands-on creative approach, inclusion of East Asian philosophical principles, and harmonization of self- and other-oriented compassion, this resource guide provides empowering tools for helping professionals from diverse fields of practice and their host organizations.