Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment: Stabilization, Safety & Nervous System Balance

Being able to monitor and modulate a trauma client's dysregulated nervous system is one of the practitioner's best lines of defence against traumatic hyperarousal going amok-risking consequences such as dissociation and decompensation. This paperback edition of Babette Rothschild's The Body Remembers Volume 2, clarifies and simplifies autonomic nervous system (ANS) understanding and observation. It includes a full-colour table that distinguishes six levels of arousal, which has proven to be an essential clinical tool, presenting a new and useful distinction between trauma-induced hypoarousal and the low arousal that is caused by lethargy or depression.

Multiple therapeutic transcripts illuminate key points in trauma treatment, including:

• Stabilising clients who dissociate
• Identifying and implementing hidden somatic resources
• Utilising good memories and somatic markers

With an authoritative yet personal voice, Rothschild's book is essential reading for anyone working with those who have experienced trauma. The full-colour ANS table is also available separately as a laminated desk reference card.