Trauma and Violence Books
Better Late than Never: The Reparative Therapeutic Relationship in Regression to Dependence
This book is concerned with an enigmatic set of experiences which theorists in the Object Relations tradition have characterised as regression to dependence, a return to a primitive, pre-verbal... (more)
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy - Bringing the Body into Treatment
When treating a client who has suffered from interpersonal trauma - whether chronic childhood abuse or domestic violence, for example - talk therapy isn't always the most effective course. For these... (more)
Your Life After Trauma: Powerful Practices to Reclaim Your Identity
A professional coach who specializes in helping trauma victims rebuild their lives, Michele Rosenthal struggled with the effects of medically-induced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for over 25... (more)
Therapy with Infants: Treating a Traumatised Child
When a child without a fully developed language experiences physical and psychological stress that exceeds the child’s capacity to cope, the experience can leave lasting marks, unless the child... (more)
Children of Refugees: Torture, Human Rights, and Psychological Consequences
There is a wide gap between the psychological needs of the children of refugees and the services provided. Refugees’ home countries, cultures, and social make-up are widely diversified, and their... (more)
Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health: Understanding Risks and Promoting Resilience
Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health focuses on the clinician and the impact of working with disaster survivors. Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, mass shootings, terrorism and other large-scale... (more)
Trauma-Attachment Tangle: Modifying EMDR to Help Children Resolve Trauma and Develop Loving Relationships
Trauma-Attachment Tangle offers informative and inspiring clinical stories of children who have complex trauma and attachment issues from experiences such as adoption, hospitalization, or death of a... (more)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Preventing Suicide Attempts: A Guide to Brief Treatments Across Clinical Settings
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Preventing Suicide Attempts consolidates the accumulated knowledge and efforts of leading suicide researchers, and describes how a common, cognitive behavioral model... (more)
Micro-Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury
Micro-Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury explores the "micro-traumatic" or small, subtle psychic hurts that build up to undermine a person’s sense of self-worth,... (more)
Handbook of Anger Management and Domestic Violence Offender Treatment: Second Edition
Ronald T. Potter-Efron consciously connects anger management and domestic violence, two long separated fields, and addresses treatment options and intervention methods that meet the needs of... (more)
Stress, Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth: Social Context, Environment, and Identities
What happens in the trauma's aftermath? How do its effects manifest differently on the individual, family, and community-wide levels? Stress, Trauma, and Posttraumatic Growth: Social Context,... (more)
Principles of Trauma Therapy: A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment: Second Edition
Thoroughly updated with DSM-5 content throughout, this book is written for the average trauma clinician (or clinician new to the field who is confronted with a trauma client) to use in his or her... (more)
Strengthening Family Coping Resources: Intervention for Families Impacted by Trauma
Strengthening Family Coping Resources (SFCR) uses a skill-building, multi-family group framework to teach constructive resources to families who have a high exposure to stress and trauma. As an... (more)
Treating Traumatized Children: A Casebook of Evidence-Based Therapies
Featuring extensive case studies, this volume provides a unique window into implementation of evidence-based treatments in real-world community settings. Experienced therapists illustrate the use of... (more)
Treating the Trauma Survivor in Urgent Care: An Essential Guide to Trauma-Informed Care
Treating the Trauma Survivor is a practical guide to assist mental health, health care, and social service providers in providing trauma-informed care. This resource provides essential information in... (more)
Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician's Guide: Second Edition
Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors is a book for clinicians who specialize in helping trauma survivors and, during the course of treatment, find themselves unexpectedly... (more)
Post-Traumatic Success: Positive Psychology and Solution Focused Strategies to Help Clients Survive and Thrive
In the face of trauma, what do people do to survive? What makes them strong? What renews their sense of safety and security? This book offers resiliency-focused approaches to managing trauma in... (more)
Intergenerational Cycles of Trauma and Violence: An Attachment and Family Systems Perspective
That experiences from childhood affect our behavior in adulthood, especially how we treat our children and our intimate partners is generally accepted. Indeed, theories of intergenerational... (more)
The Trauma Therapies
It is well recognized that those who go through a major trauma can go on to experience psychological problems. Many seek psychological help and there is a now a range of psychotherapies specifically... (more)
The Story of Baby P: Setting the Record Straight
In England in 2007 Peter Connelly, a 17 month old little boy - known initially in the media reporting as 'Baby P' - died following terrible neglect and abuse. Fifteen months later, his mother, her... (more)
Stress Response Syndromes: PTSD, Grief, Adjustment, and Dissociative Disorders: Fifth Edition
The first edition of this now classic work provided the basis for adding post traumatic stress disorders to diagnoses of mental conditions. Each subsequent edition added new understanding, summaries... (more)
The Impact of Complex Trauma on Development
The Impact of Complex Trauma on Development describes what happens cognitively and emotionally, behaviorally and relationally, to people who are repeatedly traumatized in childhood.
Part One... (more)
Treating Trauma: Relationship-Based Psychotherapy with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults
Clinicians working with traumatized youth face many challenges in supporting growth and development while addressing the many negative consequences of abuse and neglect. When working with youth in... (more)
Prevention and Management of Violence: Guidance for Mental Healthcare Professionals
This evidence-based book promotes good practice in the prevention and management of violence in patients with mental disorder and will be of practical use to a wide range of mental health... (more)
Beyond Post-Traumatic Stress: Homefront Struggles with the Wars on Terror
When soldiers at Fort Carson were charged with a series of 14 murders, PTSD and other invisible wounds of war were thrown into the national spotlight. With these events as their starting point, Jean... (more)
Attachment, Trauma, and Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder in Children and Families
Now in a fully updated and expanded edition, Levy and Orlan's classic text on attachment provides a comprehensive overview of attachment theory, how attachment issues manifest, and how they can be... (more)
Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children: Creative Ideas for Therapy, Life Story Work, Direct Work and Parenting
Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in counselling, life story work or direct work.... (more)
Reading and Expressive Writing with Traumatised Children, Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Unpack my Heart with Words
Reading and Expressive Writing with Traumatised Children, Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers explores how literature can be used to help young victims cope with their experiences. The process of... (more)
Perverse Psychology: The Pathologization of Sexual Violence and Transgenderism
Psychology defines people who take pleasure in the suffering of others as having a form of mental illness, while media representations frame such behaviour as "evil". This is hotly contested... (more)
Interrupting Cycles of Early Loss, Trauma and Abuse: Therapeutic Challenges
This volume offers rich and detailed illustrations of the complex emotional needs of the children and parents in vulnerable families. The chapters also highlight the psychological toll that working... (more)