Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress Skills for Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions

<P>The second edition of <I>Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress</I> expands the five evidence-informed CE-CERT practices for supporting emotional well-being in workers exposed to the effects of secondary trauma. Adding new insights, additional research support, and fresh examples, the conversational tone makes this edition eminently readable and especially useful.</P><P>Not only does the book provide helping professionals with a portfolio of skills that support emotion regulation and recovery from secondary trauma exposure, it also enhances the experience of the helping encounter. Each chapter presents evidence-informed skills that allow readers to regulate distressing emotions and foster increased empathy for those suffering from trauma. <I>Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress</I> goes beyond the usual discussion of burnout to talk in specific terms about what we do about the very real stress that is produced by this work.</P>