Main description:

When Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery explains how managers and co-workers can learn to foster the process of emotional recovery for traumatized employees returning to the workplace.
No other resource teaches managers and co-workers how to treat fellow co-workers returning to the workplace after experiencing a violent accident, rape, a burglary, or armed robbery. Or what to say to those who have just been told they have a terminal illness. Or how to treat an employee whose close family member has committed suicide. It is not helpful for co-workers to deny such traumatic events or remain silent, which is what happens. Or for managers to avoid directly communicating with traumatized employees. Is there a short and simple way to teach managers and co-workers how to be truly helpful to such wounded people? The answer is Dr. Barski-Carrow's illuminating, example-filled book, When Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery.

Contents:

PART I. UNDERSTANDING THE TRAUMATIC LIFE EXPERIENCE (TLE)
1Why I Wrote This Book
2What is a Traumatic Life Experience (TLE)?
3What Is It Like to Be a Returning TLE Employee?
4What Can Managers Do?
5What To Tell Co-Workers?
6What Does Psychology Tell Us About Trauma?
7What Can an Employee Assistance Program Do?
PART II. TAKING PRACTICAL STEPS
8What is a Dialogue Circle?
9How to Set Up a Dialogue Circle?
10Putting Out a Welcome Mat: The First Dialogue Circle
11Lending a Listening Ear: The Second Dialogue Circle
12Offering a Helping Hand: The Third Dialogue Circle
PART III. SOME SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
13When an Entire Group Is Traumatized
14What Challenges Does a Facilitator Face?
15Helping Yourself after a Traumatic Life Experience
16How Does an Employee's Trauma Affect His Children?