When Trauma Survivors Return to Work : Understanding Emotional Recovery

When a coworker comes back to work after experiencing trauma, her colleagues may not know what to do or say or how to act. This book helps them ease the transition for the affected person. A helpful guide for managers, coworkers, and others, When Trauma Survivors Return to Work offers timely advice, careful insights, and tips and tools throughout.

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.