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Restoring the Shattered Self: A Christian Counselor’s Guide to Complex Trauma is unavailable, but you can change that!

Nearly every professional counselor will encounter clients with a history of complex trauma. Yet many counselors are not adequately prepared to help those suffering from complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), including survivors of child abuse, religious cult abuse, and domestic violence. A lack of consistent terminology in the field makes finding resources difficult, but without...

People often believe that young children are not greatly impacted by negative events, assuming that if children are too young to understand what is happening, they will not be harmed by the situation or their resilience will enable them to bounce back easily. In fact, the opposite is true. The younger the child, the greater the impact a potentially traumatic event often has, both in terms of neurobiology and psychology. Think, for
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