Trauma and Violence Books
Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches
Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art, and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family... (more)
When Someone You Love Suffers from Posttraumatic Stress: What to Expect and What You Can Do
Trauma survivors frequently struggle with unwanted memories, intense emotions, and problems with everyday functioning. Effective help is out there, but the needs of family members - confused and... (more)
Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma: To Have Our Hearts Broken
This book draws together narrative therapy, coordinated management of meaning (CMM) and liberation psychology approaches. It critically reviews each approach and demonstrates what each contributes to... (more)
Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity: Working on Identity and Selves
Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity provides psychoanalytic insights into dissociation, in particular dissociative identity disorder (DID), and offers a variety of responses to the questions of... (more)
The Psychobiology of Trauma and Resilience Across the Lifespan
Research has suggested that childhood experiences confer risk/resilience for reactions to trauma in adulthood, and predictors and correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear to differ... (more)
The Long Shadow of Sexual Abuse: Developmental Effects Across the Life Cycle
This book describes the profound interferences with normal developmental processes that occur throughout the life cycle as a result of chronic child sexual abuse. This conviction is supported by the... (more)
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy: Essential Practices and Methods
Grounded in attachment theory and trauma, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is an evidence-based, effective, and empirically validated treatment for complex trauma and disorders of attachment.... (more)
The Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Casebook
This collection of transcripts from sessions by certified Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapists gives therapists, educators, and child welfare and residential treatment professionals a detailed... (more)
Trauma: Contemporary Directions in Theory, Practice, and Research
This is a new text for courses on trauma and working with vulnerable populations. Trauma has evolved as a field over the past few decades. What began as focusing on childhood trauma, sexual abuse and... (more)
Retraumatization: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
Exposure to potentially traumatic events puts individuals at risk for developing a variety of psychological disorders. The editors of Retraumatization: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention explore... (more)
Clinician's Guide to Violence Risk Assessment
Presenting a comprehensive framework for conducting a scientifically grounded violence risk assessment, this book is authoritative, current, and practical. The essentials of doing this type of... (more)
Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders: Second Edition
Children, adolescents, and adults who experience "developmentally adverse interpersonal trauma are at risk not only for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but also for other anxiety, affective,... (more)
Understanding Crisis Therapies: An Integrative Approach to Crisis Intervention and Post Traumatic Stress
Events in people's lives can have a profound impact; anything from moving house or losing a job to the death of a loved one or a natural disaster can push an individual into a state of crisis. Crisis... (more)
Trauma Essentials: The Go-to Guide
Since 1980, when PTSD first appeared as a diagnostic category, the number of people seeking trauma therapy has grown exponentially. Victims of traumatic events seek treatment for their often... (more)
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
This training manual for patients who have a trauma-related dissociative disorder includes short educational pieces, homework sheets, and exercises that address ways in which dissociation interferes... (more)
Practical Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Acquired Brain Injury: A Guide for Working Clinicians
The book aims to acknowledge the complexity of working with clients who have an acquired brain injury but also seeks to give the interested reader practical and useable guides to develop their... (more)
A Treatment Manual for Adolescents Displaying Harmful Sexual Behaviour
A resource for clinicians working therapeutically with male adolescents who have shown harmful sexual behaviour (HSB). Comprised of a printed manual and a CD-ROM, it is designed to be delivered over... (more)
Landscapes of the Dark: History, Trauma, Psychoanalysis
In this important new collection of essays, Jonathan Sklar argues that the founding tension between Freud's commitment to interpretation and Ferenczi's extra parameter of 'being in the experience'... (more)
The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic
There is now ample evidence from the preclinical and clinical fields that early life trauma has both dramatic and long-lasting effects on neurobiological systems and functions that are involved in... (more)
Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment
This book focuses on contemporary topics relevant to individuals who assess female sexual offenders and the first to implement the scientist-practitioner model in the field. It integrates the latest... (more)
Desistance from Sex Offending
This book offers a fresh perspective on treating a population that is often demonized by policymakers, the public, and even clinicians. The authors argue that most sex offenders are 'people like us,'... (more)
Families Under Fire: Systemic Therapy with Military Families
This book provides guidelines for systems-based practice for a broad spectrum of civilian mental health practitioners who provide professional services to military personnel, their spouses, and their... (more)
Clinical Manual for Management of PTSD
As traumatic events, disasters, and war pervade everyday life around the globe, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) inevitably affects many people. The Clinical Manual for Management of PTSD... (more)
Working with Children to Heal Interpersonal Trauma: The Power of Play
Featuring in-depth case presentations from master clinicians, this volume highlights the remarkable capacity of traumatized children to guide their own healing process. The book describes what... (more)
Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma Across Generations
A central thesis of this volume is that what human beings cannot contain of their experience - what has been traumatically overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkable - falls out of social discourse, but... (more)
Managing Trauma in the Workplace: Supporting Workers and Organisations
Managing Trauma in the Workplace looks at the impact of trauma not only from the perspective of the employees but also from that of their organisations. In addition to describing the negative... (more)
Clinician's Guide to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
The diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has increasingly been the focus of clinicians' attention when treating patients after stressful life events. This book addresses the needs and... (more)
Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control is a practical, task-oriented, instructional manual designed to help therapists provide effective treatment for survivors of these... (more)
The Internal World of the Juvenile Sex Offender: Through a Glass Darkly then Face to Face
The book argues the case for the usefulness of an empirically based understanding of the internal world of juvenile sex offenders as a way of humanely relating to their difficulties. It details the... (more)
When Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery: A Handbook for Managers and Co-Workers
Explains how managers and co-workers can help foster the process of emotional recovery for employees who have been traumatized and are returning to work.
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