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Up to 90% of adults in the US will experience one or more traumatic events in their lifetimes, including interpersonal violence, traffic collisions, and sexual assault. While most who suffer a trauma naturally recover over time, for others difficulties continue, and may lead to full-blown depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance use, anxiety disorders, and other problems that interfere with healthy daily functioning. Making Meaning of Difficult Experiences is a self-guided mental health resource for people who have had potentially traumatic experiences and who wish to work through them independently, outside of a formal therapeutic setting. Based on psychological treatments with strong scientific support, this book introduces listeners to several useful tools that will help them to emotionally process difficult experiences, with the goal of moving on from the event and building future resilience. The program takes the listener step-by-step through four skill sets to facilitate emotional processing of difficult experiences: Memory Exposure and Processing, Behavioral Activation, Social Connection, and Self-Care. Listeners use this self-evaluation to determine what is working or not working for them, enabling them to focus more on certain skills, or to complete the full program based on their needs.

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Sheila A. M. Rauch is professor of psychology in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Emory University School of Medicine. She serves as clinical director of the Emory University Veterans Program and director of mental health research and program evaluation at the VA Atlanta Healthcare System. Dr. Rauch has been conducting research on and providing treatment for PTSD and anxiety disorders for over twenty years, and has been training providers in PTSD treatment since 2000. Barbara O. Rothbaum is a professor in psychiatry and associate vice chair of clinical research at the Emory School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and director of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program and the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program at Emory. Dr. Rothbaum specializes in research on the treatment of individuals with anxiety disorders, particularly focusing on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She has authored over 300 scientific papers and chapters, has published eight books on the treatment of PTSD. Marie Jenkins is a trained vocalist, audio engineer, and songwriter/composer, producing music and recording audiobooks out of her home studio in Los Angeles. She loves good storytelling, whether in the form of a song or novel, and has years of experience professionally delivering both to clients as a session vocalist, a topline songwriter, and a narrator for various companies and publishers. When she's not working with audio, she is likely embroidering while trying to keep her two cats from eating the yarn.

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