Trauma and Violence Books
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)
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)
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)
The Truth Is Longer Than A Lie: Children's Experiences of Abuse and Professional Interventions
All too often child victims of abuse either remain silent or are not listened to when they do decide to speak of their experiences, but "The Truth is Longer Than a Lie" gives abused children and... (more)
Displacement, Asylum, Migration
In this volume, based on the 2004 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, major figures in philosophy, political science, law, psychoanalysis, sociology, and literature address the challenges that displacement,... (more)
Multisystemic Therapy and Neighbourhood Partnerships: Reducing Adolescent Violence and Substance Abuse
Based on the proven technology of Multisystemic Therapy (MST), this unique book provides an exemplary approach to empowering communities to reduce youth violence and substance abuse and promote... (more)
A Bolt from the Blue: Coping with Disasters and Acute Traumas
Based on work within the Finnish organized crisis care network, this title shows how crisis care can be an integral part of health care services, covering all traumatic incidents from a death in the... (more)
Beyond Trauma: Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction
This method has been effective in dealing with many areas of traumatic stress, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in such diverse groups as veterans, children, 9/11 survivors, motor... (more)
Youth aggression and violence: A psychological approach
This text presents a comprehensive survey of causes and effective approaches to intervention and prevention for all those students, trainees and professionals concerned with aggressive children and... (more)
Family sexual abuse: Frontline research and evaluation
This valuable book reviews and discusses the latest research on family sexual abuse. With contributions by both practitioners and researchers, it covers such issues as sibling incest; the background... (more)
The Therapist's Emotional Survival: Dealing with the Pain of Exploring Trauma
This book explores the private thoughts of the therapist in response to the patient's inner expressions and how each affects the other over the course of treatment. Perlman documents his own journey... (more)
Acts of Abuse: Sex offenders and the criminal justice system
An exploration of responses from the judicial system to the explosion of media interest in sexual crimes. This study uses current data on the causes, and charts the reactions of the services dealing... (more)
When Religion Hurts You - Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
Religious trauma is something that happens far more often than most people realize. But religious trauma is trauma.
In When Religion Hurts You, Dr. Laura Anderson takes an honest look at a side... (more)
Complex and Traumatic Loss: Fostering Healing and Resilience
In this needed practice and training guide for all mental health professionals, Froma Walsh presents a research-informed, resilience-oriented approach to help individuals, couples, and families who... (more)
Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy: Working with the Curse Position in Clinical Practice
Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy explores how traumatic experience interacts with unconscious phantasy based in folklore, the supernatural, and the occult. Drawing upon psychoanalysis,... (more)
Traumatization and Its Aftermath: A Systemic Approach to Understanding and Treating Trauma Disorders
Traumatization and Its Aftermath delves deep into the complexities of traumatization and is a practical, comprehensive guide to understanding and overcoming the impacts of adverse... (more)
Sand Therapy for Out of Control Sexual Behavior, Shame, and Trauma: Treatment Approaches Beyond Words
This book is designed to educate sex therapists and mental health professionals on the power of using sand when treating sexual issues, providing guidance in accessing their clients’ unconscious to... (more)
Developmental Trauma: Theory, Research and Practice
Developmental Trauma offers a comprehensive introduction to the research findings that help us understand the effects on human development of early childhood trauma and adaptation to stress. It... (more)
They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and their Children
Trauma was a potent influence in the lives of pre-1924 Eastern European Jewish immigrants. They uprooted themselves because of grinding poverty, anti-Semitic discrimination, pogroms, and the violence... (more)
Treating Trauma in Trans People: An Intersectional, Phase-Based Approach
Treating Trauma in Transgender People is the only treatment guide available focused on treating the symptoms of trauma in transgender people.
People will buy this book because it has complicated... (more)
Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts and Psychotherapy
Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma is a guide to recognizing the many ways shame and pride lie at the heart of psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma. In these pages, readers learn how to... (more)
Living with Mild Brain Injury: The Difficulties of Diagnosis and Recovery from Post-Concussion Syndrome
This important book presents a unique, personal account of the impact a mild traumatic brain injury can have. It tells the story of Pauline, who was 33 when a late football tackle caused a bleed in... (more)
Disaster Mental Health Community Planning: A Manual for Trauma-Informed Collaboration
Disaster Mental Health Community Planning is a step-by-step guide to developing mental health disaster plans, assisting communities to act on long-term resilience and recovery.
As disasters... (more)
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors
This book provides a theoretical framework and an innovative model of intervention for distressed couples whose relationships are affected by the echoes of trauma. (more)