The polyvagal theory presented in client-friendly language.
This book offers therapists an integrated approach to adding a polyvagal foundation to their work with clients. With clear explanations of the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory, this complex theory is translated into clinician and client-friendly language. Using a unique autonomic mapping process along with worksheets designed to effectively track autonomic response patterns, this book presents practical ways to work with clients' experiences of connection. Through exercises that have been specifically created to engage the regulating capacities of the ventral vagal system, therapists are given tools to help clients reshape their autonomic nervous systems.
Adding a polyvagal perspective to clinical practice draws the autonomic nervous system directly into the work of therapy, helping clients re-pattern their nervous systems, build capacities for regulation, and create autonomic pathways of safety and connection. With chapters that build confidence in understanding Polyvagal Theory, chapters that introduce worksheets for mapping, tracking, and practices for re-patterning, as well as a series of autonomic meditations, this book offers therapists a guide to practicing polyvagal-informed therapy. 
The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy is essential reading for therapists who work with trauma and those who seek an easy and accessible way of understanding the significance that Polyvagal Theory has to clinical work.

The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Self-Help

Dana, Deb

Relationships

W.W.Norton&Company

Collections of new developments bringing the Polyvagal Theory into practice. This product includes Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory, edited by Stephen W. Porges and Deb Dana, and The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy by Deb Dana. The books are packaged as a shrink-wrapped set.

Polyvagal Theory in Therapy / Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory Two-Book Set

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Porges PhD, Stephen W.

Mental Health

A practical guide to working with the principles of polyvagal theory beyond the therapy session.
Deb Dana is the foremost translator of polyvagal theory into clinical practice. Here, in her third book on this groundbreaking theory, she provides therapists with a grab- bag of polyvagal- informed exercises for their clients, to use both within and between sessions.
These exercises offer readily understandable explanations of the ways the autonomic nervous system directs daily living. They use the principles of polyvagal theory to guide clients to safely connect to their autonomic responses and navigate daily experiences in new ways. The exercises are designed to be introduced over time in a variety of clinical sessions with accompanying exercises appropriate for use by clients between sessions to enhance the therapeutic change process.
Essential reading for any therapist who wants to take their polyvagal knowledge to the next level and is looking for easy ways to deliver polyvagal solutions with their clients.

Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Medical Books

Medicine

Offers therapists a low tech–high impact, interactive way to explain polyvagal theory to clients.
When clients are stuck in the cognitive experience of their story, an explanation of polyvagal theory helps to bring their attention to the autonomic experience― to bring the importance of the biology of their experience back into awareness. Yet polyvagal theory can be challenging and intimidating to explain.
This flip chart offers therapists an easy, standardized way to support clients in understanding the role of the autonomic nervous system in their lives. Using a flip chart makes psycho- education an interactive experience. Therapists can feel confident in teaching their clients polyvagal theory by following the chart.
With a flip chart visible during sessions, the therapist can:
<ul>
<li>remind clients of the ways the autonomic nervous system has been shaped and is active in their daily living experience,</li>
<li>display a page corresponding to the present moment, thus anchoring that experience in the theory,</li>
<li>keep a page of the hierarchy visible when working with a client’s habitual response pattern.</li>
</ul> Color illustrations throughout

Polyvagal Flip Chart: Understanding the Science of Safety (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Psychology & Counseling

Innovative clinicians share their experiences integrating Polyvagal Theory into their treatment models.
Clinicians who have dedicated their work to bringing the benefits of the Polyvagal Theory to a range of clients have come together to present Polyvagal Theory in a creative and personal way.
Chapters on a range of topics from compassionate medical care to optimized therapeutic relationships to clinician's experiences as parents extract from the theory the powerful influence and importance of cases and feelings of safety in the clinical setting.
Additionally, there are chapters which:
<ul>
<li>elaborate on the principle of safety in clinical practice with children with abuse histories</li>
<li>explain the restorative consequences of movement, rhythm, and dance in promoting social connectedness and resilience in trauma survivors</li>
<li>explains how Polyvagal Theory can be used to understand the neurophysiological processes in various therapies</li>
<li>discuss dissociative processes and treatments designed to experience bodily feelings of safety and trust</li>
<li>examine fear of flying and how using positive memories as an active "bottom up" neuroceptive process may effectively down-regulate defense</li>
<li>shed light on the poorly understood experience of grief</li>
</ul>
Through the insights of innovative and benevolent clinicians, whose treatment models are Polyvagal informed, this book provides an accessible way for clinicians to embrace this groundbreaking theory in their own work.

Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

About the Author\nDeb Dana, LCSW, lectures internationally on polyvagal theory and is the leading translator of this scientific work to the public and mental health professionals. She lives in Portland, Maine, and Chicago, Illinois.\nOffering clients easy-to-implement exercises and strategies for managing wherever they are on the autonomic ladder. 
Deb Dana is the leading clinical translator of Stephen Porges’ influential polyvagal theory. With her new Polyvagal Card Deck: 58 Practices for Calm and Change, she further extends the reach of this groundbreaking perspective on mental wellness. These informational cards enable clients to enhance a broad understanding of their nervous system as well as help clinicians to guide them through a process of tuning in. 
The cards have been thoughtfully created to provide polyvagal concepts and prompts grouped into three areas: 1) the autonomic hierarchy: ventral, sympathetic, and dorsal; 2) a section about regulating the system; and 3) a bonus section exploring play, stillness, and change. Clinicians can use the cards at the beginning of a session to frame the work or at the end to create a plan for ongoing work; clients can reach for the cards any time they want some nervous system support.

Polyvagal Card Deck: 58 Practices for Calm and Change

Discover the remarkable ways your nervous system works in service of your safety and well-being. Polyvagal Theory, developed by researcher and scientist Dr. Stephen Porges and popularized by therapist Deb Dana, has impacted countless lives. It has changed the way therapists work with their clients and provided a pathway toward healing for those who have experienced hardship or trauma. In Polyvagal Prompts, Deb Dana and Courtney Rolfe invite readers to explore their nervous systems through Polyvagal Theory with engaging questions and exercises, which readers can respond to directly in the pages of the book. Readers are guided in noticing their systems, listening with curiosity, and reflecting on what they learn. The prompts can be used as a daily practice or to explore specific topics at the reader's own pace, and are also ideal for helping clients track and reflect upon their polyvagal-informed therapies. No matter how readers decide to explore, Polyvagal Prompts offers an invaluable opportunity to begin the life-changing journey of befriending one's nervous system.

Polyvagal Prompts: Finding Connection and Joy through Guided Explorations

Rolfe, Courtney

Bringing the benefits of polyvagal theory to readers through easy-to-implement exercises. Here, for the first time, is a layperson's explanation of polyvagal theory, an approach to mental health and well-being that has taken the clinical world by storm. A polyvagal approach to life is based on the knowledge that the autonomic nervous system is shaped by early experience and reshaped with ongoing experience. This short book will offer an overview for nonspecialist readers and provide a series of exercises and meditations (practices) that will allow readers to tune into their nervous systems, providing calming prompts to build and strengthen ventral vagal connections. This book includes a never-before-published comprehensive chapter on polyvagal theory, preceded by exercises that focus on mapping, reflecting, listening, deepening, creating, and connecting. Readers who want to change a pattern and find new rhythm for their nervous systems can use this material to work toward those goals.

Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Glimmers Journal: Reflect on the Small Moments That Bring You Joy, Safety, and Connection

Happiness

A guide to understand and befriend your unique nervous system--and find your way back to safety and calm in times of stress We live in stressful times. When we're anxious and overwhelmed, our nervous systems--and our lives--suffer. We can't eliminate all of life's difficulties, but The Nervous System Workbook can teach you how to find more well-being amidst it all, starting inside your own body. Deb Dana, a leading expert in Polyvagal Theory, shares incredibly effective tools for getting to know your system. She writes, "No two nervous systems are exactly alike, and getting to know how your nervous system works leads you along the path to becoming an active operator of your own system, no matter how it is wired." Step-by-step, Dana takes you through more than 50 short practices and exercises that teach you: * How your personal nervous system responds--to what's happening outside you, to what's happening inside you, and how you communicate with others' systems * How to recognize when you're in a state of distress * What helps you feel calm and centered * Why co-regulation--connecting with others--can support your sense of security * Strategies to find more safety and ease within yourself QR codes throughout the book point to bonus audio practices guided by Dana. As Dana writes, "When you learn to befriend the nervous system, you'll move through the world in a new way and experience the powerful benefits that come with finding your personal pathways to calm and freedom."

The Nervous System Workbook (Sounds True Inner Workbooks)

Personal Transformation

SOUNDS TRUE.

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