Trauma and Violence Books
Anxiety and Mood Disorders Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Clinical Assessment and Psychotherapy
While there are many excellent texts addressing cognitive impairment and behavioural difficulties and on rehabilitation associated with traumatic brain injury, few textbooks specifically address the... (more)
School Violence: Studies in Alienation, Revenge and Redemption
Experiences of violence in schools are encountered much more frequently than they used to be. The shocking repercussions of these acts are felt nation-wide and particularly impact school populations,... (more)
Counselling Survivors of Domestic Abuse
Examines the psychobiological impact of domestic abuse within a trauma framework and explains how counsellors can facilitate recovery from domestic abuse within a secure, supportive therapeutic... (more)
Sexual Offending and Mental Health: Multi-disciplinary Management in the Community
Draws together theoretical, clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals working in the community and in-patient settings with sex offenders and those who have behaved in sexually... (more)
Therapy After Terror: 9/11, Psychotherapists, and Mental Health
"Therapy After Terror" examines the 2001 World Trade Center attack from the perspectives of New York City mental health professionals who treated the psychologically wounded following the attack.... (more)
Children in Genocide: Extreme Traumatization and Affect Regulation
'This book, containing untold suffering by children caught in the midst of extreme social violence, gives voice to their unthinkable, unspeakable experience and makes this into a telling... (more)
The Unbroken Soul: Tragedy, Trauma, and Human Resilience
The contributors to this volume are keenly aware that mental health professionals, while well trained to identify and treat psychopathology, are insufficiently informed or cognizant of human... (more)
Shattered Lives: Children Who Live with Courage and Dignity
Bears witness to the lives of children who have experienced abuse and neglect, and highlights the effects of early traumatic episodes. Chapters take the form of letters to a child capturing their... (more)
Child Abuse and Culture: Working with Diverse Families
This expertly written book provides an accessible framework for culturally competent practice with children and families in child maltreatment cases. Numerous workable strategies and concrete... (more)
The Abusive Personality: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships: Second Edition
This influential book provides an innovative framework for understanding and treating intimate partner violence. Integrating a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, Donald G. Dutton... (more)
Intellectual Disability, Trauma and Psychotherapy
People with intellectual disabilities have emotional and mental health needs just like anyone else. Until recently however there has been little research of effective psychological treatment or... (more)
Strategies for Managing Stress After War: Veteran's Workbook and Guide to Wellness
Using a resilience and wellness-based model, this guide helps participants alleviate war-related stress symptoms by adjusting to retransition stress reactions; learning healthy coping skills;... (more)
Clinician's Guide to Treating Stress After War: Education and Coping Interventions for Veterans
This book guides mental health professionals in providing resilience-based, wellness-oriented training to meet the psychological needs of those exposed to a war zone. It sensitively offers education... (more)
A Child's Journey to Recovery: Assessment and Planning for Traumatized Children
This book shows how carefully planned and assessed treatment can help traumatized children. It outlines how to set up a process for measuring a child's progress towards recovery. Uniquely, the book... (more)
In the Name of Love: Romantic Ideology and Its Victims
We yearn to experience the idealized love depicted in so many novels, movies, poems, and popular songs. Ironically, it is the idealization of love that arms it with its destructive power. Popular... (more)
Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiology and Treatment
"Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiology and Treatment" offers an advanced introduction to this symptom, process, and pattern of personality organization seen in several trauma-related disorders,... (more)
Stolen Tomorrows: Understanding and Treating Women's Childhood Sexual Abuse
From the psychotherapist who offered groundbreaking work on self-mutilation (in "Cutting") comes a landmark examination of the psychology of sexual abuse. "Stolen Tomorrows" encourages the 20 percent... (more)
Working with Traumatized Police-officer Patients: A Clinicians Guide to Complex PTSD Syndromes in Public Safety Professionals
An insider perspective from a 'cop doc on the job', this book is the first of its kind written in response to a need for a specialized guide for clinicians that operationally defines and responsibly... (more)
Accounting for Rape: Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence
"Accounting for Rape" presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate everyday beliefs about rape, to examine how... (more)
Interventions Following Mass Violence and Disasters: Strategies for Mental Health Practice
Grounded in the best science available, this essential volume presents practical guidelines for effective clinical intervention in the immediate, intermediate, and long-term aftermath of large-scale... (more)
Cognitive-behavioral Therapies for Trauma
Presents cognitive and behavioral applications for understanding and treating trauma-related problems. This volume includes strategies for addressing comorbid substance abuse, traumatic... (more)
Patchwork: Children, Trauma and Therapy
A pioneering exploration of the creation of resilience in infants, children and their families living in modern Israel. The chapters cover topics such as children's adaptation to Kibbutz life and... (more)
Why People Die by Suicide
In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: Why? Written by a... (more)
Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis
Since trauma is a thoroughly relational phenomenon, it is highly unpredictable, and cannot be made to fit within the scientific framework Freud so admired. In "Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty:... (more)
Treating Violence: A Guide to Risk Management in Mental Health
Treating Violence deals with the problem of violence by mental health patients. Over the last twenty years violence by the mentally ill has grown from just a peripheral concern to dominate debate... (more)
Moving on After Trauma: A Guide for Survivors, Family and Friends
The effects of extreme trauma can continue to be emotionally devastating. "Moving On After Trauma" offers hope, providing survivors, family members and friends with a roadmap for managing emotional,... (more)
Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse: Feminist Revolutions in Theory, Research and Practice
Child sexual abuse is a global problem that negatively affects many women and girls. As such, it has long been of concern to feminists, and more recently mental health activists. This book draws on... (more)
Child Abuse and Stress Disorders
This book examines major stressful events along with several stress disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder. It also contains chapters that deal with various types of child abuse and... (more)
Interviewing Children About Sexual Abuse: Controversies and Best Practice
Interviewing children who may been sexually abused is a daunting task fraught with far-reaching consequences for the children, families, institutions, and professionals involved. With no room for... (more)
On Paedophilia
A topical and complete examination of the phenomena of paedophilia starting with a historical overview and then proceeding to a psychoanalytic examination of its structure and treatment. Contents... (more)