Reviews for Trauma Recovery and Empowerment: A Clinician's Guide for Working with Women in Groups

The average rating for Trauma Recovery and Empowerment: A Clinician's Guide for Working with Women in Groups based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-12-25 00:00:00 Randall Ray Ray While addressing adoptees and birth mothers, this book would be helpful to adoptive parents or those who work in adoption or who counsel adoptees because it addresses the trauma caused by adoption. The author provides practical advise and practices for acknowledging the losses and finding healing, mostly through an inner child approach. However, the author takes the view that all adoptees and birth mothers are traumatized and need healing which may not be the case: each person needs to be seen as an individual and not have their experiences and emotions generalized and almost dictated. He also seems to speak against adoption which in this imperfect world is a sometimes a better option. He does not address international adoption where the circumstances and opportunities to reunite with birth parents are very different, though this book would still be helpful for those who need healing.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-07-05 00:00:00 Stacy L Simmons I didn't read it cover to cover--it's that kind of book for me, that I won't be done with it for a while. I learned a lot about myself that had been a mystery to me.