Trauma and Violence Books
Stress and Trauma
This work provides an overview of traumatic stress studies. It reviews the full range of clinical disorders that may result from extreme stress, with particular emphasis on the most common disorder -... (more)
Response to disaster: Psychosocial, community, and ecological approaches
Service after cataclysmic life events is a visible and prominent component of social response. The book reconciles the technical, theoretical, and applied interests represented in populations and... (more)
Creating a Safe Place: Helping Children and Families Recover From Child Sexual Abuse
This book demonstrates how therapeutic sevices can be improved through feed back from service users and how creative activities such as storytelling, painting and drama can encourage the expression... (more)
Creative Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Despite heightened media attention and the increase in professional knowledge about child abuse, many children are still being failed by the system. Using attachment theory as a foundation, this book... (more)
Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorder
Mental, physical, or sexual abuse in close personal relationships commonly results in trauma that is very different from the trauma of accidents, illness, or war. Little is more intellectually... (more)
Violence: A Public Health Menace and a Public Health Approach
'In addressing the issue of violence, our first purpose is to provide practical information that will help the reader to design specific intervention strategies aimed at preventing the escalation of... (more)
Child Abuse Trauma: Theory and Treatment of the Lasting Effects
This volume considers the unique and overlapping long-term effects of all major forms of child maltreatment. The author integrates information on seven types of child abuse and neglect - ranging from... (more)
Adult bullying: Perpetrators and victims
Stating that as many as one in 15 adults are affected by bullying, this volume explores the problems associated with bullying, the reasons for them, and the characteristics of the two parties -... (more)
Memories of Sexual Betrayal: Truth, Fantasy, Repression and Dissociation
In this comprehensive volume the repressed memory controversy is explored by leading clinicians in a discussion free of the accusatory tone that has often dominated the literature to date. The... (more)
Treating Abused Adolescents
The first book to explore the issue of abuse in adolescents - both the residual effects of earlier child abuse and current or cumulative abuse. This volume provides a sensitive account of how to... (more)
Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
A book of great scope and lucid intelligence that integrates the work of many pioneers and captures the keen spirit of inquiry that animates this rapidly developing field. It is a comprehensive... (more)
Women who hurt themselves: A book of hope and understanding
In this compassionate book, Dusty Miller tells the moving stories of women living under the shadow of self-mutilation, compulsive cosmetic surgery and chronic eating disorders. (more)
Trauma among older people: Issues and treatment
This study presents an integrative model of treatment that considers theories of treatment in light of special considerations relating to elderly patients. (more)
Home Truths about Domestic Violence: Feminist Influences on Policy and Practices: A Reader
This text draws on contributions from academics and professionals to examine the nature and extent of domestic violence, its effects upon children, social policy and the feminist viewpoint,... (more)
A Bright Red Scream: Self-mutilation and the language of pain
An investigation of why so many people self-mutilate and what can be done to help them. The illness, "outed" on a global scale when Princess Diana admitted hurting herself deliberately, is practised... (more)
Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence
When Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence was first published, it was lauded for providing scientific evidence that violence can originate in the womb and become entrenched in a... (more)
The Relational Trauma of Incest: An integrated family-based approach to treatment
This volume presents an innovative approach to navigating the painful confusions and dilemmas experienced by families in which incest has occurred. Integrating social constructionist, feminist, and... (more)
Post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents
A scholarly, multidisciplinary and comprehensive introduction to the field of post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents, along with its clinical assessment and treatment. It is... (more)
Male Victims of Sexual Assault
This work reports on the first epidemiological study of male sexual victimization in Europe and challenges the stereotype of gay men as sexual predators. It discusses male rape in prisons,... (more)
Stress and Trauma
Stress and Trauma provides a well-written, accessible overview of traumatic stress studies. It reviews the full range of clinical disorders that may result from extreme stress, with particular... (more)
Loss and trauma: General and close relationship perspectives
The book begins with an analysis of the concepts of trauma and loss and then examines them in specfic populations. The loss of family and friends is also discussed. 415 pages. (more)
Give sorrow words: Perspectives on loss and trauma
This book offers students, researchers, and practitioners an extensive introduction to the field of loss and trauma. 247 pages. (more)
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment
Relates the impact of trauma on the body to the phenomenon of somatic memory. The book illuminates the value of understanding the psychophysiology of trauma for both therapists and their traumatised... (more)
Father-daughter incest
Through a study of forty incest victims and interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection and law enforcement, the author develops a picture of the incestuous family. She also... (more)
Narrative Approaches to Working With Adult Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: The Clients’, the Counsellor’s and the Researcher’s Story
Presents first-hand accounts from two male survivors of childhood sexual abuse and from the counsellor who worked with them. The author describes the counsellor's perspective, and draws out the... (more)
Resolving childhood trauma: A long-term study of abuse survivors
An engaging and compassionate book which provides a hopeful and helpful perspective for trauma survivors. The author's extensive and innovative research with child abuse survivors also provides... (more)
Good Practice in Working with Victims of Violence
Drawing on the experiences of practitioners from a range of backgrounds, this text is a comprehensive study of real or threatened physical violence and its consequences. Personal accounts of children... (more)
EMDR and psychotherapy integration: Theoretical and clinical suggestions with focus on traumatic stress
This text is the culmination of therapeutic work begun in 1972 that, at the end of the 20th century, is finally being recognized as a viable assessment and treatment tool. It is primarily concerned... (more)