Trauma and Violence Books
The Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth: Research and Practice
Providing suggestions for the useful steps to be taken in understanding posttraumatic growth, this book offers contributions representing an array of perspectives of posttraumatic growth. It serves... (more)
Wounded by Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma
The culmination of three decades of studying and treating survivors of adult onset trauma, "Wounded by Reality" is the first systematic attempt to differentiate adult onset trauma from childhood... (more)
Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections
Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first of which pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of... (more)
Understanding, Assessing, and Treating Adult Victims of Childhood Abuse
This important book identifies the adult adjustment disorders that are associated with childhood abuse and explains why various forms of abuse lead to specific adjustment difficulties. The authors... (more)
Child Sexual Abuse: Disclosure, Delay, and Denial
This volume provides the first rigorous assessment of the research relating to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, along with the practical and policy implications of the findings. Leading... (more)
Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame
This work offers a comprehensive self help plan to help you provide for yourself what you missed as a child. Those who were emotionally abused or neglected in childhood tend to suffer from self... (more)
Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy
People like to talk. We know that talking to an attentive and thoughtful listener can be helpful in clarifying conscious and unconscious feelings, thoughts, and motivations. But is talk enough? The... (more)
Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder
This ground-breaking book examines the role of crime in the lives of people with Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, a condition which appears to be... (more)
A Big and a Little One is Gone: Crisis Therapy with a Two-year-old Boy
This is a story from inside the child psychologist's room. Victor, who is two and a half years old, has lost his mother and younger brother in a car accident. He is 'sunny and happy' and does not... (more)
Intimate Warfare: Regarding the Fragility of Family Relations
The community in which children are nursed; the family, should by all means be a safe haven. However, it is not. People in family relations are more likely to be threatened, hit, kicked, raped or... (more)
Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence
Offering a fresh perspective on treatment, this book presents an overarching framework and many specific strategies for working with violent youth and their families. The authors shed light on the... (more)
The Abusive Personality: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships: Second Edition (Hardback)
The new edition of this popular, strong seller includes two new chapters and thorough updates. The book describes an evidence-based treatment approach for a perennial, urgent problem. It has little... (more)
Choosing to Heal: Using Reality Therapy in the Treatment of Sexually Abused Children
The number of sexual abuse disclosures by children has been increasing at a steady rate. Therapists are faced with the dilemma of limited resources and training to help them best serve this... (more)
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for Dummies
This is a plain-English resource for people suffering from the after effects of a traumatic experience. An estimated five percent of Americans - over 13 million people - suffer from Post Traumatic... (more)
The Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome: What to Do If Someone in Your Life Has a Dual Personality - Or If You Do
This is the first self-help book to address this abusive syndrome and to help readers manage the Jekyll/Hydes in their lives. Beverly Engel brings her expertise in emotionally abusive relationships... (more)
A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions
This book's intent is to increase our understanding of the field of trauma, shape practice with both traumatized and non-traumatized people, and increase our understanding of the impact of extreme... (more)
Stolen Tomorrows: Understanding and Treating Women's Childhood Sexual Abuse
See catalogue number 26947 for the paperback edition. "Stolen Tomorrows" will encourage women who have been abused to think about, talk about and seek help for what has been their secret shame. It... (more)
Making an Impact: Children and Domestic Violence - A Reader: Second Edition
This fully updated Reader provides a comprehensive review of recent research and legislation relating to domestic violence and its consequences for children, and identifies the implications for... (more)
Living Alongside a Child's Recovery: Therapeutic Parenting with Traumatized Children
The idea of using therapeutic parenting to help with the recovery of traumatized children is the focus in the latest title in the "Delivering Recovery" series, "Living Alongside a Child's Recovery".... (more)
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)
Psychotherapy of Abused and Neglected Children: Second Edition
Now in a revised and updated second edition, this widely used guidebook and text combines theory, research, and practical clinical strategies. Provided is a thoughtful framework for understanding the... (more)
Trauma, Truth and Reconciliation: Healing Damaged Relationships
People do great wrongs to each other all the time, sometimes deliberately, sometimes accidentally. Many within the fields of mental health are centrally involved in helping people to heal from... (more)
Offenders' Memories of Violent Crimes
Violent offenders often claim amnesia in order to avoid punishment. It is important for investigators and juries to ascertain whether such amnesia is genuine or feigned; an offender with amnesia is... (more)
The Dissociative Mind
The Dissociative Mind takes the reader from neurophysiology to attachment theory to the clinical remediation of trauma states to the reality of evil. It provides a masterful overview of a literature... (more)
Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims: The Sexual Abuse Crisis and the Catholic Church
The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church captured headlines and mobilized public outrage in January 2002. But much of the commentary that immediately followed was reductionistic, focusing on... (more)
Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
"Prologue to Violence" reveals what happens to those who survive horrific childhoods, only to commit terrifying crimes of their own. Interning on a hospital prison ward, Abby Stein listened to... (more)
Mothering Through Domestic Violence
This work is for those working in the fields of family and child welfare and policy makers. Research into children and domestic violence in recent years has emphasized the importance of giving... (more)
Counselling for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Third Edition
Covering the full spectrum of post-traumatic states, "Counselling for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" provides a clear and detailed account of how these states can be recognised and includes chapters... (more)
Talking About Domestic Abuse: A Photo Activity Workbook to Develop Communication Between Mothers and Young People
Talking About Domestic Abuse is an activity pack for children of 9 years and above and adolescents where families have experienced domestic abuse, to help and encourage them to open up to their... (more)