{"id":46162,"date":"2020-06-05T11:58:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=46162"},"modified":"2020-06-05T12:59:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:59:37","slug":"new-edition-of-little-book-of-trauma-healing-is-a-timely-release-of-a-peacebuilding-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/new-edition-of-little-book-of-trauma-healing-is-a-timely-release-of-a-peacebuilding-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"New edition of \u2018Little Book of Trauma Healing\u2019 is a timely release of a peacebuilding classic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Nearly 15 years after its original publication, a new edition of the Little Book of Trauma Healing: When Violence Strikes and Community Security<\/em><\/a> is Threatened<\/em> was released by SkyHorse Publishing this week. Author Carolyn Yoder<\/strong> integrates new theories and developments in the field with the book\u2019s justice-and-conflict-informed approach to working with individual, community, and societal trauma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although revised before the COVID-19 pandemic and protests in the United States against systemic racial injustice, the book addresses the dynamics of collective trauma, when our sense of safety is eroded. Individuals and groups are more likely to act and react from the survival behaviors of fight, flight and freeze. The capacity for heartfelt ways of relating and problem-solving abilities can be diminished. On the other hand, times of crisis are times of opportunity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe core principles of the book feel truer and more relevant than in 2005,\u201d she said, citing the sections on the types of leaders \u2013 reparative, destructive, and malignant \u2013 and the processes needed to address group trauma: releasing the physical effects of trauma, acknowledgement of the issues and root causes, doing justice, and conflict transformation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a time of pandemic, \u201cthe collective\u201d encomposes the whole world, says Yoder. COVID-19 is also a shared trauma, meaning that helpers \u2013 medical and mental health practitioners, humanitarian workers and first line responders \u2013 are experiencing the same threat as those they serve. Thus, they are more vulnerable to being traumatized themselves.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The core concepts of the Little Book of Trauma Healing<\/em> are based on the curriculum of the Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience program (STAR)<\/a>, which Yoder, as the first STAR director, created with faculty of EMU\u2019s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/a> in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001. Funding for the initiative came from the organization Church World Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSTAR was innovative in that it was designed for communities and integrated concepts from traditionally separate fields of study and practice,\u201d Yoder says. STAR draws from the fields of interpersonal neurobiology, psychology, human security, restorative justice, conflict transformation, faith\/ spirituality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n