Trauma and Violence Books
Confronting Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse
While Child Sexual Abuse has been around for ages, research on the effects and treatment are fairly recent and date back to the late 70s. To date, there are many books that deal with aspects of abuse... (more)
Living Beyond Brain Injury: A Resource Manual
A brain injury can have a dramatic effect on all areas of a person's life. This manual is designed to provide an understanding of some of the effects of a brain injury and how to manage them. It... (more)
Living with an Acquired Brain Injury: The Practical Life Skills Workbook
The Practical Life Skills Workbook is designed for people who have recovered well enough from brain injury to prepare for a return to independent living. Using a very accessible and easy to read... (more)
EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment, and Dissociation
This is the first book to provide a wide range of leading-edge, step-by-step strategies for clinicians using EMDR therapy and adjunct approaches with children with severe dysregulation of the... (more)
Neurobiology and Treatment of Traumatic Dissociation: Towards an Embodied Self
Encompassing the contributions of expert clinicians and researchers in the area of traumatic stress and dissociation, this volume is the first to integrate current neuroscience research regarding... (more)
EMDR and the Art of Psychotherapy with Children: Infancy Through Adolescence Treatment Manual: Second Edition
Expanded to include EMDR Therapy with infants to adolescents, this updated and revised manua - the only resource of its kind - accompanies the new second edition of the widely praised foundational... (more)
EMDR and the Art of Psychotherapy with Children: Infants to Adolescents: Second Edition
This second editon focuses on teaching therapists to effectively use the entire EMDR Therapy eight-phased treatment with children of all ages from infants to adolescents. The book details changes to... (more)
Treating Addictions with EMDR Therapy and the Stages of Change
Mental health practitioners must be prepared to treat addiction-related issues-affecting up to 50% of mental health clients-whether or not clients present with addiction as a primary concern. This... (more)
Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally-Based Trauma with EMDR Therapy: Innovative Strategies and Protocols
Underscoring the importance of cultural competence, this groundbreaking book focuses on using EMDR therapy with specific populations, particularly those groups typically stigmatised, oppressed, or... (more)
A Guide to the Standard EMDR Therapy Protocols for Clinicians, Supervisors, and Consultants
This second edition of an acclaimed guide to the theory and practice of EMDR provides updated information regarding new evidence for its treatment efficacy and an in-depth presentation of... (more)
Self-Help for Trauma Therapists: A Practitioner's Guide
For those offering trauma-informed care, it can be difficult to maintain wellbeing and a balanced, positive outlook when the nature of their job requires frequent engagement with traumatic... (more)
Treating Complex Trauma and Dissociation: A Practical Guide to Navigating Therapeutic Challenges
Treating Complex Trauma and Dissociation is the ideal guide for the front-line clinician whose clients come in with histories of trauma, abuse, self-injury, flashbacks, suicidal behavior, and more.... (more)
Denying Death: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Terror Management Theory
This volume is the first to showcase the interdisciplinary nature of Terror Management Theory, providing a detailed overview of how rich and diverse the field has become since the late 1980s, and... (more)
Injured Men: Trauma, Healing, and the Masculine Self
Winner of the 2010 Gradiva Award, Injured Men is a unique casebook of clinical material pertaining to men who have sustained trauma. With the exception of those publications dealing with the... (more)
Assessment and Intervention with Mothers and Partners Following Child Sexual Abuse: Empowering to Protect
Assessment and Intervention with Mothers and Partners Following Child Sexual Abuse provides valuable and readily accessible information on child sex offenders and explains how to successfully apply... (more)
The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age
What is forgiveness? Are some acts unforgivable? Can forgiveness take the place of revenge? Powerful real-life stories from survivors and perpetrators of crime and violence reveal the true impact of... (more)
Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders: A Handbook for Clinicians
Both academically rigorous and clinically practical, Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders is fully informed by the new DSM-5 category that includes adjustment disorders, acute stress disorder, and... (more)
Gun Violence and Mental Illness
Perhaps never before has an objective, evidence-based review of the intersection between gun violence and mental illness been more sorely needed or more timely. Gun Violence and Mental Illness,... (more)
Art and Mourning: The Role of Creativity in Healing Trauma and Loss
Art and Mourning explores the relationship between creativity and the work of self-mourning in the lives of 20th century artists and thinkers. The role of artistic and creative endeavours is... (more)
Neurobehavioural Disability and Social Handicap Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Second Edition
Neurobehavioural disability follows many forms of serious brain injury and is a major constraint on social independence. Rehabilitation services are often not organised in a way which addresses the... (more)
Effective Learning After Acquired Brain Injury: A Practical Guide to Support Adults with Neurological Conditions
Effective Learning After Acquired Brain Injury provides clear guidance on delivering productive educational programmes for adolescents and adults with acquired brain injury (ABI). Written for the... (more)
The STOP Program: For Women Who Abuse: Group Leader's Manual
Long disregarded and downplayed, female domestic violence is today rapidly gaining awareness as research proves not only that it exists, but that - according to multiple incidence studies - the... (more)
A Practical Guide to Helping Children and Young People Who Experience Trauma: A Practical Guide
This will be a concise and practical resource for a range of carers and practitioners working with children who experienced trauma. It will highlight their characteristics in contrast with those for... (more)
Trauma, Trust, and Memory: Social Trauma and Reconciliation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Cultural Memory
Trauma is one of the most important topics discussed throughout the clinical, social and cultural field. Social traumatization, as we meet it in the aftermath of genocide, war and persecution, is... (more)
Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Scientific Foundations and Therapeutic Models
With contributions from prominent experts, this pragmatic book takes a close look at the nature of complex psychological trauma in children and adolescents and the clinical challenges it presents.... (more)
Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach
This insightful guide provides a pragmatic roadmap for treating adult survivors of complex psychological trauma. Christine Courtois and Julian Ford present their effective, research-based approach... (more)
Demons in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Genocide, Slavery and Extreme Trauma in Psychoanalytic Practice
Demons in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Genocide, Slavery and Extreme Trauma in Psychoanalytic Practice is the second of two volumes addressing the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings... (more)
Sexual Aggression Against Children: Pedophiles' and Abusers' Development, Dynamics, Treatability, and the Law
In Sexual Aggression Against Children: Pedophiles' and Abusers' Development, Dynamics, Treatability, and the Law, Drs. Blackman and Dring use multiple psychoanalytic principles to answer, Why do... (more)
Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma: Lifting the Burdens of the Past
Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma provides psychotherapists and other helping professionals with a new body-based clinical model for the treatment of trauma. This model... (more)
Art Therapy, Trauma, and Neuroscience: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Art Therapy, Trauma, and Neuroscience combines theory, research, and practice with traumatized populations in a neuroscience framework. Recognizing the importance of understanding both art therapy... (more)