Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Understanding Crisis Intervention and Trauma Response -- Introduction: Review of the General Crisis Response -- Acknowledging Trauma -- Historical Background: Men, Women, and Trauma -- Mass Traumas -- Chapter 2 Understanding Trauma and Its Impact -- September 11, 2001: The Psychological Experience-Reaction and Response -- Are We All Victims? -- Understanding Reactions -- Your Reaction -- Understanding Trauma -- Vicarious Traumatization -- Secondary Victims -- Chapter 3 Mass Trauma: Past and Present -- The Impact of Mass Trauma -- African Genocide -- The Gacaca Process -- Ten Years Later -- Aging Victims of Mass Trauma -- Treating Aging Genocide Survivors -- Long-Term Impact of Mass Trauma -- Tsunami! -- Who Am I? -- Chapter 4 Women and Trauma -- Why "Women and Trauma?" -- Statistics, Women, and Trauma -- The Women and Trauma Project -- Trauma and Women's Health -- Women, Trauma, and the Military -- Homelessness -- The Trauma of Forced Migration and War -- Diversity -- Peacekeepers? -- Chapter 5 Life-Threatening Illness: Cancer and the Trauma From Within -- Impact and Role Change of the Therapist -- Cancer as Trauma -- Working With Cancer Patients: Patients' Needs and Therapists' Skills -- Skills Therapists Need -- Gender, Family Systems, and Trauma -- Ending Treatment -- Chapter 6 Resilience and the Phoenix Phenomenon -- The "Phoenix Phenomenon" -- Phoenixes Amongst Us -- Creating Resilience -- Toughness and Hardiness -- Positive Change Following Trauma -- The "Second Disaster" -- Phoenixes Rising From 9-11 -- Chapter 7 Trauma and the Mind -- Experiencing Trauma: New Roots, Old Roots -- Healing Trauma's Fallout: Current Information on Treatments and Controversies -- Compassion Fatigue -- Care for the Caregivers -- Preventive Interventions -- Other Resources -- Chapter 8 Trauma and the Body.

First Do No Harm: Creating a Safe Place -- The Body Remembers -- The Body as a Safe Place -- Successful Exercises -- Choosing Life Exercises -- Other Healing and Affirming Exercises -- Chapter 9 Spirituality and Trauma -- Defining and Understanding Spirituality's Role in Trauma -- Therapeutic Spirituality: Applying Spirituality to Traumatic Situations -- Chapter 10 New Sources of Healing -- Healing the Healers: Assessing Your Own Resources -- Defining Healing -- Reaching Out to Communities: Using the Media in Healing Political Unrest-The Quebec Referendum and the Anglophone Community -- The Clergy Connection -- Animals and Healing -- Chapter 11 Forgiveness -- Movements Toward Forgiveness -- Physiological Components of Forgiveness -- Popularity of the Concept of Forgiveness -- When Forgiveness Backfires -- Chapter 12 Final Thoughts -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.