What is traumatic stress? / Kempie van Rooyen -- A basic understanding of trauma counselling / Lyndall Booth & Anri Adlem -- The context of community trauma in South Africa / Andre de la Porte & Charl Davids -- Trauma counselling related to health, illness and death / Cornelia Drenth -- Traumatic incidents in the family context / Lyndall Booth & Anri Adlem -- The phenomenology of rape in South Africa / Anita Padmanabhanunni -- Understanding the effects of indirect trauma / Francine Masson -- Brief interventions / Cornelia Drenth & Charl Davids -- Cognitive behavioural informed trauma counselling / Kempie van Rooyen -- Narrative practices in trauma care, support and counselling / Andre de la Porte & Mantoa Nzeku -- Strengths-based interventions in trauma counselling / Tasleem Hassim & Alida Herbst -- An integrated approach to working with trauma / Francine Masson, Tanya Graham & Malose Langa -- Care sense: the importance of self-care for counsellors / All authors.