Help for the Helper, Babette Rothschild
Help for the Helper, Babette Rothschild
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Help for the Helper
: Preventing Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma in an Ever-Changing World: Updated + Expanded

Author: Babette Rothschild

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/06/2022


Synopsis

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.

About Babette Rothschild

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Reviews

Goodreads review by Erica on April 03, 2021

When I purchased and began reading this book, I already knew I was suffering compassion fatigue and burnout. I hoped for, at a minimum, a new take on the standard therapist self-care tips, but found this book to be so much more. After 12+ years of studying and practicing psychotherapy, I was fascina......more

Goodreads review by Janet on December 30, 2013

I HIGHLY recommend this book to any therapist or care-giver who wants to be effective and empathetic without taking on clients' trauma or intense emotions. I am looking forward to implementing the author's strategies to stop having nightmares and allowing my clients' stories to negatively affect my......more