Bessel A Van der Kolk
Author
Language
English
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Teen Recommendations 2022-2023
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
NYT - Paperback Nonfiction
Teen Recommendations 2022-2023
Description
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. --Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging. Trauma is our response to an experience in which we feel powerless or lacking agency. Until now, researchers have treated these conditions as different, but they actually lie along a continuum. Dr. Elizabeth Stanley explains the significance of this continuum, how it affects our resilience in the face of challenge, and why an event that's stressful...
