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The Handbook of Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Children: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications

The Handbook of Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Children is a comprehensive and truly vital text for both experienced professionals and novice clinicians alike.

In these pages, dozens of... (more)

Dance/Movement Therapy and Sexual Abuse: Assessment and Intervention Based on Body-Mind Approaches

Edited by Einat Shuper Engelhard

Dance/Movement Therapy and Sexual Abuse addresses the vital role dance/movement therapy plays in helping survivors of sexual abuse.

Comprising ten chapters, the book describes assessment,... (more)

Memory, Trauma and the Spirited Life: Remembering and Identity

by Gillian Burrell

Memory, Trauma and the Spirited Life offers a unique understanding of memory’s role in developing as a person, in navigating the course of life, and in mitigating emotional pain.

This book... (more)

Shadow Monsters and Courageous Hearts: Stories of Recovery to Empower and Inspire

by Hayley Graham

Have you ever wanted to understand more about mental health difficulties, such as trauma, OCD, attachment, shame and grief, but been put off by lengthy, academic texts? Have you ever wanted to start... (more)

Treating Trauma in Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The DBT Prolonged Exposure Protocol (DBT PE)

by Melanie S. Harned

Many DBT clients suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but until now the field has lacked a formal, tested protocol for exactly when and how to treat trauma within DBT. Combining the... (more)

What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis

by Laurence Kahn

What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis explores the impact Nazism had on the evolution of psychoanalysis and tackles the enigma of the transformation of individual hate into mass psychosis and of the... (more)

The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma: Using the NeuroAffective Relational Model to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resolve Complex Trauma

by Laurence Heller, Brad Kammer

A clinician's guidebook.

Apply the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) to help clients overcome complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), recover from adverse childhood experiences... (more)

The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change

by Pauline Boss

How do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved?

The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair and even anger. In this book, pioneering therapist,... (more)

Treating Children with Dissociative Disorders: Attachment, Trauma, Theory and Practice

Edited by Valerie Sinason, Renée Potgieter Marks

This book provides a comprehensive overview of research into dissociation in children and adolescents and challenges conventional ideas about complex behaviours.

Offering a new perspective to... (more)

Trauma and Memory: The Science and the Silenced

Edited by Valerie Sinason, Ashley Conway

Trauma and Memory will assist mental health experts and professionals, as well as the interested public, in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory, and how this differs from other... (more)

From Trauma to Harming Others: Therapeutic Work with Delinquent, Violent and Sexually Harmful Children and Young People

Edited by Ariel Nathanson, Graham Music

From Trauma to Harming Others shows the approach of professionals from the world-renowned Portman Clinic, which specializes in work with violence, delinquency and sexual acting out.

This book... (more)

Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices

by Deborah A. Dana

Deb Dana is the foremost translator of polyvagal theory into clinical practice. Here, in her third book on this groundbreaking theory, she provides therapists with a grab-bag of polyvagal-informed... (more)

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

by Resmaa Menakem

The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking, inspiring work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical... (more)

Preparing for Trauma Work in Clinical Mental Health: A Workbook to Enhance Self-Awareness and Promote Safe, Competent Practice

by Lisa Compton, Corie Schoeneberg

This workbook is a foundational and unique resource for clinicians preparing to work with clients affected by trauma. Chapters integrate a holistic understanding of the unique client within... (more)

Holocaust Trauma and Psychic Deformation: Psychoanalytic Reflections of a Holocaust Survivor

by Alfred Garwood

Written by a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, this moving and important book examines the massive psychic trauma suffered by a generation of Holocaust survivors. It not only provides... (more)

A Brain Of My Own: A memoir about dissociation dissolved

by Wendy Hoffman

A Brain of My Own is about slavery, about brains stolen in childhood and before; brains that have been intruded upon, stopped, shrunk, paralyzed. We know about the history of people whose bodies were... (more)

Promoting Resilience: Responding to Adversity, Vulnerability, and Loss

Edited by Neil Thompson, Gerry R. Cox

Promoting Resilience offers a fresh perspective that views resilience through a sociological lens, emphasizing the significance of loss issues and highlighting a range of practice implications across... (more)

Psychological Therapy for Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury: Innovations for Children, Young People and Families

Edited by Jenny Jim, Esther Cole

Children, young people and families living with an acquired brain injury (ABI), whether through accident, illness, injury or abuse, are rarely offered psychological therapy, and yet the benefits of... (more)

Art Therapy Treatment with Sex Trafficking Survivors: Facilitating Empowerment, Recovery, and Hope

Edited by Mary K. Kometiani

This groundbreaking book introduces and researches art therapy as a creative and effective treatment for the sensitive and pertinent issue of human sex trafficking. Rich empirical examples and best... (more)

Reducing Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout: A Trauma-Sensitive Workbook

by William Steele

Reducing Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout addresses the vital questions mental health providers have about self-care and its relationship to clinical practice. Packed with... (more)

Healing Trauma in Group Settings: The Art of Co-Leader Attunement

by Stephanie Wise, Emily Nash

Healing Trauma in Group Settings offers a unique focus on the highly valuable role of attuned co-leader relationships in the practice of healing trauma. Drawing on their extensive experience of... (more)

Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Articles, Essays, and Conversations

by Pat Ogden

Following an already- established and successful "pocket guide" format, Pat Ogden discusses sensorimotor psychotherapy. Whether you are new to the approach or in need of a handy reference, this book... (more)

Trauma and the Destructive-Transformative Struggle: Clinical Perspectives

Edited by Terrence McBride, Maureen Murphy

The impact of trauma can be both destructive and transformative. This important new book presents not only a range of theoretical frameworks through which different trauma can be understood, from the... (more)

Landscapes of Trauma: The Psychology of the Battlefield

by Nigel Hunt

Integrating trauma studies with historical research and social psychology, Landscapes of Trauma examines a range of battlefields from across history, including Waterloo, the Battle of Sedan, the... (more)

Individuation for Adult Replacement Children: Ways of Coming into Being

by Kristina E. Schellinski

Kristina E. Schellinski uncovers the hidden trauma of the replacement child - born into an atmosphere of grief to substitute for a lost sibling or other person - and helps adult replacement children... (more)

Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma: Techniques and Tools for Working with Suicidality and Dissociation

by Joanne Zucchetto, Simone Jacobs

Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma offers clinicians a new framework for understanding the symptoms and coping mechanisms displayed by survivors of childhood abuse. This approach... (more)

Somatic Methods for Affect Regulation: A Clinician's Guide to Healing Traumatized Youth

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