Trauma and Violence Books
Solution-Focused Treatment of Domestic Violence Offenders: Accountability for Change
This book describes a cutting-edge treatment approach that creates effective, positive changes in domestic violence offenders. Solution-focused therapy focuses on holding offenders accountable and... (more)
Counselling a Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse: A Person-Centred Dialogue
This book provides a vivid insight into working with a client who is a survivor of child sexual abuse. Using fictitious dialogue it illustrates the person-centred approach and relates it to how... (more)
Trauma, Attachment and Family Permanence: Fear Can Stop You Loving
Exploring the complex issues of trauma, attachment and family placement, the contributors to this book provide a variety of complementary perspectives on practice in this area. Focussing on how to... (more)
The House Next Door to Trauma: Learning from the Survivors.
Drawing on her long-standing experience as a manager of services for refugees and survivors, Judith Hassan presents a practical guide to working with people who have lived through war trauma. She... (more)
Understanding and Dealing with Violence: A Multicultural Approach
As the first edited volume to offer a multicultural approach to violence, this book examines the role of cultural, social and historical factors in the manifestation and perpetuation of the cycle of... (more)
New Feminist Stories of Child Sexual Abuse: Sexual Scripts and Dangerous Dialogues
The international feminist contributors to this book look through the lens of poststructuralism at how child sexual abuse is differently represented and understood in the populist, academic,... (more)
Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and Their Families
This is a comprehensive anthology on the psychological treatment of Holocaust survivors and their families. It covers the full range of current theoretical and therapeutic approaches. It is a major... (more)
Fire of the Five Hearts: A Memoir of Treating Incest
This book is about the influence of twenty years of work in the field of incest on a therapist's professional and personal life. It is comprised of individual cases, and touches upon topics including... (more)
Experiential Treatment for PTSD: The Therapeutic Spiral Model
This work presents The Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM), a systematic modification of psychodrama, for therapists working with people who are suffering from severe trauma and post-traumatic stress... (more)
The Psychodynamics of Addiction
In the treatment of addictions and their psychological understanding, cognitive-behavioural and motivation approaches have been paramount. In contrast, the psychodynamic contribution has been muted.... (more)
Incest: A New Perspective
In this major new book, Mary Hamer offers a new perspective on incest, making a link with the scandal of sexual abuse on the part of priests. She places sexual abuse in the context of the whole... (more)
Young Men Who Have Sexually Abused: A Case Study Guide
This important volume explores the current theoretical and practice issues involved in working therapeutically with young men who have sexually abused. Linking theory to practice, Andrew Durham... (more)
Even From a Broken Web: Brief, Respectful Solution-Oriented Therapy for Sexual Abuse and Trauma
More and more people are going to therapy with the problem of the after- effects of sexual abuse. This text povides clinicians with a forward- looking, respectful therapy that taps into, and honors,... (more)
Woman-to-Woman Sexual Violence: Does She Call it Rape?
In a work that is sure to stir controversy, Girshick exposes the shocking, hidden reality of woman-to-woman sexual violence and gives voice to the abused. Based on a nationwide survey and in-depth... (more)
Assessing and Treating Physically Abused Children and Their Families
Written for those already in the field as well as practitioners-in-training, this volume is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive, practical approach to the assessment and treatment of... (more)
Interventions Following Mass Violence and Disasters: Strategies for Mental Health Practice
Bringing together over 40 leading experts in disaster mental health, this essential volume presents practical clinical guidelines grounded in the best science available. The focus is on what... (more)
A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists 1914-1994
A history of 20th-century military psychiatry, drawing on a range of sources such as medical papers and official records. The topics covered range from World War I "shell shock" to the psychological... (more)
New Families, Old Scripts: A Guide to the Language of Trauma and Attachment in Adoptive Families
Most adopted children and their families will, sooner or later, encounter the challenges of dealing with unresolved attachment issues or early traumatic experiences. "New Families, Old Scripts" is an... (more)
Beyond Invisible Walls; The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients
In Beyond Invisible Walls, East European therapists, themselves, draw a compelling picture of the waves of trauma that their people endured, the institutions of trauma that remained well after... (more)
Bullying in Adulthood: Assessing the Bullies and their Victims
Peter Randall's first book, Adult Bullying, was one of the first books to examine the various situations in which adult bullying occurs, the forms it takes, and how it can be identified and dealt... (more)
Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930
This title will be of considerable relevance to communities of readers interested in the history of psychiatry, war psychiatry, and hysteria. An original, lucid, well organised and superbly... (more)
A Short Journey into Trauma: Understanding and Coping with Post-Traumatic-Stress
This book aims to challenge and change unhelpful attitudes to those who suffer traumatic reactions, to show that they are not signs of weakness or a personality disorder and that there is... (more)