Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Informed Practice

Stephen Regel is an Honorary Professor in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. He was the Clinical Lead at the Centre for Trauma, Resilience and Growth until his retirement. He has worked with trauma services in Northern Ireland, with the Victim Support Homicide Service, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the British Red Cross and other agencies, and with the emergency services in the UK and abroad as well as humanitarian aid agencies on workplace trauma support programmes. He was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to victims of trauma.Stephen Joseph is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and an Emeritus Professor in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK, where he tutored on the counselling and psychotherapy training programme, and was co-director of the Centre for Trauma, Resilience and Growth. Prior to that he was a research tutor on the clinical psychology programme at the University of Warwick. He has co-edited or authored several books on trauma, including Understanding Posttraumatic Stress (Wiley, 1997), Trauma, Recovery, and Growth (Wiley, 2008), What Doesn't Kill Us (Basic, 2011), and Trauma and the Therapeutic Relationship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

This is such a helpful and accessible book for all those working alongside people who have experienced traumatic events. The evidence and guidance are clearly summarised and brought to life through case examples. I really recommend it and wouldn't be without it.

• 1: Trauma. Common Responses 2: Concepts and theories of post-traumatic stress 3: Risk and resilience. Assessment and formulation 4: Traumatic loss 5: Medically related trauma 6: Cultural responses to trauma 7: Workplace Trauma Support 8: Therapy and clinical interventions 9: Post-traumatic growth 10: The importance of self-care. Looking after yourself