Post traumatic success: positive psychology & solution-focused strategies to help clients survive & thrive. Frederike Bannink. 2014.

This is a book to help clients transform what happened to them to make them better instead of bitter. The first book on trauma to combine the theory and practice of positive psychology and solution-focused brief therapy with traditional approaches, this book veers away from a focus on pathology (what is wrong with clients and how to repair the worst) to a focus on what is right with them (and how to create the best) - that is, from post traumatic stress to post traumatic success.

The three Rs of post traumatic success are: Recovery, Resilience and enRichment (post traumatic growth) - concepts depicted by the bamboo plant on the book’s cover. Trauma professionals will learn what it takes to help survivors benefit more substantively from therapy and how to support their clients’ self-efficacy and self-esteem, and make psychotherapy shorter in time, more cost effective, and more lighthearted for their clients and themselves.