Trauma and Violence Books
Dancing Between Hope and Despair: Trauma, Attachment and the Therapeutic Relationship
Why is hope so fundamental to our existence?
In considering this and many other questions, this evocative book introduces the reader to the repeated shifting, or 'dance', between hope and... (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)
Immigrants and Refugees: Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology
Aside from the many political, cultural and economic aspects of the present refugee crisis in Europe, it is also crucial to consider the psychological element. In our fast-changing world,... (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)
Gendered Violence, Abuse and Mental Health in Everyday Lives: Beyond Trauma
Gendered Violence, Abuse and Mental Health in Everyday Lives: Beyond Trauma offers new insights into the social dimensions of emotional distress in abuse-related mental health problems, and explores... (more)
Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie, and Video Game Violence
Completely revised and updated, a much-needed call to action for every parent, teacher, and citizen to help our children and stop the wave of killing and violence gripping America's youth. (more)
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Here, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm... (more)
Violence Against Women: Current Theory and Practice in Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence and Exploitation
Violence against women is a pervasive problem in society and responding appropriately to those who experience it and those who perpetrate it is a constant challenge for social work, health and... (more)
Understanding Adult Survivors of Domestic Violence in Childhood: Still Forgotten, Still Hurting
Domestic violence experienced in childhood continues to have an enduring emotional impact into adulthood. The scars it leaves can impact on family lives, employment, and long-term emotional and... (more)
Disabled Women and Domestic Violence: Responding to the Experiences of Survivors
Domestic violence is encountered by disabled women more frequently than non-disabled women, yet disabled women are less likely to receive appropriate services, and there has been little research on... (more)
Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Services Delivery Systems
For the last thirty years, the nation's mental health and social service systems have been under relentless assault, with dramatically rising costs and the fragmentation of service delivery rendering... (more)
New Frontiers in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: An Evidence Base for Clinical Practice
This volume provides an evidence base for clinical practice specific to traumatic brain injury (TBI) sustained during childhood, using a biological-psychosocial conceptual framework. Unlike previous... (more)