Back • Return Home

Full Title: The Little Book of Trauma Healing
When Violence Strikes and Community Security Is Threatened
Author(s): Carolyn Yoder
Publishing / Edition: Simon and Schuster, 2020

Click here for the Table of Contents of the book


Content Review

This book is an outgrowth of the STAR program funded by the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) at Easter Mennonite University. STAR is an acronymn that means Strategies for Trauma Awareness & Resilience. It is a core part of a larger framework, summarized through a diagram shaped like a star, appropriately enough:


These five aspects were applied to understanding how individuals experience trauma physiologically and psychologically:


...And how it can create cycles of violence when expressed within the context of relationships:


They have also formulated a hopeful approach towards healing trauma and breaking free from cycles of violence:


Follow the spiral.

All of the above diagrams are taken from a study guide for the book on the Skyhorse Publishing website.

[In Progress...]


Related Resources

• Lease the eBook from Google Play $

• Books about similar topics:

Slutkin, Gary. The End of Violence. Little and Brown, 2026.