From Trauma To Trial

Surviving a life-changing personal injury or death of a family member is extremely difficult. It has a profound physical, psychological and financial impact on injured people and family members. For many, Ontario's complex legal system, insurance companies and lawyers may make matters worse and heighten their anxieties. From Trauma to Trial is designed as a step-by-step guide to help you learn what to expect from the legal system after a serious personal injury or accident-related death of a family member. Along with providing practical advice, it covers what happens from the time of the initial injury to the point of finding a personal injury lawyer. It then takes you through the various steps in the legal process, up to and including settlement and trial. It is meant to guide an injured person, their family and healthcare providers, in a chronological way through the entire litigation process and beyond. From Trauma to Trial will help you understand the legal process and reduce your anxieties so that you can focus on what's important - your recovery. Bill Teggart is a leading Ontario personal injury lawyer and founder of William J Teggart Personal Injury Law. He has practiced exclusively in the area of personal injury law for over 22 years with a focus on spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, complex orthopaedic injury and accident-related fatal injury cases. Best Lawyers in Canada has recognized Bill in the areas of personal injury law and insurance law for many years. Three Best Rated has included him in its publication based on former client reviews, client satisfaction and trust. Bill has been a frequent speaker on personal injury law. He has presented at conferences throughout Canada and the United States including the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association of Justice, the Atlantic Provinces Trial Lawyers Association and the Ontario Bar Association. Bill was educated in the United States and Canada. He attended American International College on a hockey scholarship. While there he was awarded the ECAC Merit Medal for combined scholastic and athletic achievement. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. He attended the University of Windsor Law School where he received his LLB degree

Over the past few years, public attention focused on the Jian Ghomeshi trial, the failings of Judge Greg Lenehan in the Halifax taxi driver case, and the judicial disciplinary proceedings against former Justice Robin Camp have placed the sexual assault trial process under significant scrutiny. Less than one percent of the sexual assaults that occur each year in Canada result in legal sanction for those who commit these offences. Survivors often distrust and fear the criminal justice process, and as a result, over ninety percent of sexual assaults go unreported. Unfortunately, their fears are well founded. In this thorough evaluation of the legal culture and courtroom practices prevalent in sexual assault prosecutions, Elaine Craig provides an even-handed account of the ways in which the legal profession unnecessarily – and sometimes unlawfully – contributes to the trauma and re-victimization experienced by those who testify as sexual assault complainants. Gathering conclusive evidence from interviews with experienced lawyers across Canada, reported case law, lawyer memoirs, recent trial transcripts, and defence lawyers’ public statements and commercial advertisements, Putting Trials on Trial demonstrates that – despite prominent contestations – complainants are regularly subjected to abusive, humiliating, and discriminatory treatment when they turn to the law to respond to sexual violations. In pursuit of trial practices that are less harmful to sexual assault complainants as well as survivors of sexual violence more broadly, Putting Trials on Trial makes serious, substantiated, and necessary claims about the ethical and cultural failures of the Canadian legal profession.

This spellbinding graphic novel follows the adventures of Violet—a young witch whose parents were murdered when she was a child. As she wages war against necromancers and demons, Violet learns to overcome her internal monsters as well. In this groundbreaking comic book for teens and young adults, we meet Violet—a witch whose parents were murdered by an evil necromancer when she was only six years old. Running from country to country, as well as from herself, Violet never gets a chance to fully process her traumatic experience. When she turns 19, Violet begins training at the Underworld Intelligence Agency (UIA) in hopes of becoming a Dark Agent—someone tasked with keeping the balance between the world of the living and the world of the undead. During her training, Violet hopes to finally overcome her fear of death and take control of her emotions, but instead she finds that mindfulness, vulnerability, and acceptance are the skills most necessary to help her succeed. Blended seamlessly throughout the story are elements of a powerful and evidence-based treatment called acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Whether or not you’ve experienced a traumatic event like Violet, you’ll find valuable skills you can apply to your own life to help you conquer your demons and hone your unique superpowers. Note for therapists: Dark Agents presents the core skills of ACT in a fun, narrative format to appeal to teen readers. In this comic, teens will learn all about mindfulness, defusion, self-compassion, and values-based living. The book doesn't feel like a therapist recommendation—which is exactly what makes it perfect for your teen clients!

Top level clinical and laboratory scientists present their most recent clinical and experimental findings and concepts. The well balanced contributions illustrate the enormous significance of the dialogue between both laboratory and clinic, ultimately for the benefit of the patients, and contribute to a better understanding of secondary brain damage from trauma and ischemia as basis to develop more effective treatment including drugs.

In this groundbreaking book, a leading clinical psychiatrist redefines how we think about and treat victims of trauma. A "stunning achievement" that remains a "classic for our generation." (Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., author of The Body Keeps the Score). Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war. Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most important psychiatry works to be published since Freud," Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we heal and are healed.

Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction Therapy (TrIGR) provides mental health professionals with tools for assessing and treating guilt and shame resulting from trauma and moral injury. Guilt and shame are common features in many of the problems trauma survivors experience including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, substance use, and suicidality. This book presents Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction (TrIGR) Therapy, a brief, transdiagnostic psychotherapy designed to reduce guilt and shame. TrIGR offers flexibility in that it can be delivered as an individual or group treatment. Case examples demonstrate how TrIGR can be applied to a range of trauma types including physical assault, sexual abuse, childhood abuse, motor vehicle accidents, and to moral injury from combat and other military-related events. Conceptualization of trauma-related guilt and shame, assessment and treatment, and special applications are covered in-depth. Summarizes the empirical literature connecting guilt, shame, moral injury, and posttraumatic problems Guides therapists in assessing posttraumatic guilt, shame, moral injury, and related problems Provides a detailed look at a brief, transdiagnostic therapy shown to reduce guilt and shame related to trauma Describes how TrIGR can be delivered as an individual or group intervention Includes a comprehensive therapist manual and client workbook

This book offers an account of the surprising interaction between trauma and justice. Moving from texts by Arendt, Benjamin, Freud, Zola, and Tolstoy to the Dreyfus and Nuremberg trials, and the trials of O. J. Simpson and Adolf Eichmann, Felman argues that the adjudication of collective traumas in the 20th century transformed both culture and law.