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.
About the Author: Dr. Barski-Carrow's work focuses on relationships in the workplace. She brings to this issue more than 30 years experience in a variety of management, administrative and technical positions in the government, public and private sector. Her research, presentations, workshops, conferences and publications of popular and professional articles have earned her international acclaim. She was featured in a Wall Street Journal Article relating to workplace issues in 2003. Her roots are from Northeastern Pennsylvania. She relocated to Washington, D.C., and built her career in the Department of Energy and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Her specialty was building healthy relationships in the workplace. At HHS she became the Acting Director of the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity/Office of the Secretary. In this position she created, designed and implemented the award-winning Sexual Harassment Program, training over 1,200 employees in the headquarters and regional offices. She served on the faculty of the Northern Virginia Community College, Mr. Vernon College in Washington, D.C. She has been affiliated with The Women's Center, Vienna Virginia, Department of Defense & the William Wendt Center for Loss & Healing, Washington, D.C., and has given workshops at the Jungian Society in Washington, D. C. She resides in Milton, Delaware and is associated with the Cancer Consortium of Delaware, the Rehoboth Art League, the Coastal Camera Club, Member of the Fund for Women (Delaware Community Foundation) and is President of Carrow Associates.