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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...

The symptom clusters that currently make up part of the diagnostic criteria for PTSD in the fifth edition of the DSM (DSM-5) are intrusive, avoidance, alterations in cognitions and mood, and alterations in arousal and reactivity. This represents some changes in terminology from the fourth edition of the manual (DSM-IV) as well as the addition of new clusters. SYMPTOM CLUSTERS OF PTSD ■ intrusive symptoms ■ avoidance symptoms ■ negative alterations in cognitions and mood ■ marked alterations in arousal
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