Trauma and Violence Books
Treating The Abusive Partner: An Individualized Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
Intimate partner violence is notoriously difficult to treat, and this promising manual presents the first one-on-one cognitive-behavioral treatment approach for this highly challenging population.... (more)
9/11 as a Collective Trauma and Other Essays on Psychoanalysis and Society
This collection of essays tells of the psychic structure of suicide bombers and the psycho-political causes and consequences of the Iraq war, considers the psychological meaning of 9/11 for the world... (more)
The Abuse of Older People: A Training Manual for Detection and Prevention
This handbook guides professionals in the welfare sector through interactive examples of the abuse of older people set in institutional and community placements, to increase the development of their... (more)
Group Work with Adolescents After Violent Death: A Manual for Practitioners
Intended for mental health practitioners, this book addresses the needs of adolescents exeriencing traumatic reactions in the aftermath of the violent death of a close friend or relative, a violent... (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)
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)
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)
Cutting: Understanding and overcoming self-mutilation
This work, written for self-mutilators, parents, friends, therapists, explains why the disorder manifests in self-harming behaviour and describes how the self-mutilator can be helped. 256 pages. (more)
Violence in Intimate Relationships:
This book examines the roots of violence between spouses, identifies the pre-cursors to wife-beating and asks who are the victims of domestic abuse? It also explores the psychological characteristics... (more)
Coping with catastrophe: A handbook of post-disaster psychological aftercare
A handbook for people who provide psychosocial aftercare for victims of disasters. This edition presents findings on the nature and effects of trauma, the psychological debriefing process and the... (more)
Sexual Abuse: The Child's Voice: Poppies on the Rubbish Heap
In this work the author shows how abuse can affect the mental well-being of children, and how the repair of the child's trust in adults is crucial to the process of healing. The counselling process... (more)
Trauma-Informed Restorative Dialogues: The Power of Community
This book combines trauma-informed practice with restorative justice to explore how restorative dialogues can support those affected by trauma. Trauma-informed practice involves understanding the... (more)
Reclaim: Understanding Complex Trauma and Those Who Abuse
A groundbreaking book that will expand your thinking, whether you are a trauma survivor, a clinician, someone who loves a survivor, or someone seeking to understand abuse.
In Reclaim, expert... (more)
Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Guidebook for Survivors and Practitioners
This accessible guidebook has been created to be used alongside the picture book, Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder, as a broad introduction to childhood trauma and its... (more)
Trust and Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Study in Human Nature
This interdisciplinary text brings together perspectives from leading psychoanalysts and modern Jewish philosophers to offer a unique investigation into the dynamic between the fundamental trust in... (more)
Trauma-Informed Mindfulness With Teens: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Mindfulness has grown in popularity exponentially over the past two decades, and many educators, therapists and other youth professionals are asked to teach mindfulness in a variety of public... (more)
Extremities: Trauma Testimony and Community
A remarkable volume in which prominent scholars and writers explore the emotional, political, and aesthetic dimensions of
Talking About Sexual Assault: Society's Response to Survivors
Sexual assault is a traumatic experience for any woman. This book provides a comprehensive look at womens rape disclosure, addressing such issues as why, how often, and to whom women disclose their... (more)
The Scared Child: Helping Kids Overcome Traumatic Events
Dr. Barbara Brooks, a pioneer in adapting the technique of Critical Incident Debriefing to help children, shows parents how they can use this new, successful approach to help their kids work through... (more)
Reconstructing early intervention after trauma:
The introduction of a diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder heralded the dawn of modern psychotraumatology. On the strength of the conceptual refinements offered by this diagnosis, much... (more)
Brief Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress: Disorder: Traumatic Incident Reduction and Related Techniques
Research has demonstrated that brief therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) tends to be more successful than long-term work. Traumatic Incident Reduction is a relatively new and exciting... (more)