Trauma and Violence Books
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Adolescents With PTSD: Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences: Therapist Guide
Traumatic events, including sexual abuse, experiencing or witnessing violence, and natural disasters, are common among adolescents. A significant number of adolescents go on to develop posttraumatic... (more)
Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma
Rising above the polemics surrounding sexual and physical abuse, David and Jill Savege Scharff bring a relational perspective to the integration of psychoanalytic and trauma theories in order to... (more)
Practical Interventions for Young People at Risk
This book responds to the urgent need for practical intervention approaches targeting young people at risk. It provides a much needed practical resource for practitioners and students from a variety... (more)
Trauma-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Women: A Clinician's Manual
The awareness of psychological trauma has grown exponentially in the past decade and clinicians in many areas have increasingly found themselves confronted with the need to provide trauma-related... (more)
Trauma and Serious Mental Illness
An exploration of the newfound connections between mental illness and trauma. For decades, the idea that serious mental illnesses (SMIs) are almost exclusively biologically-based and must be treated... (more)
Sex-Offender Therapy: A How-To Workbook for Therapists Treating Sexually Aggressive Adults, Adolescents, and Children
Sexual abuse, sexual addiction, and sexual offending have become a significant clinical problem. Successfully treating these disorders is the first step toward preventing future victims.... (more)
Domestic Violence Treatment for Abusive Women: Step by Step
Most therapists have experience with wives, girlfriends, and children of violent men, never suspecting that domestic violence offenders can be women too. In Domestic Violence Treatment for Abusive... (more)
A Relational Approach to Rehabilitation: Thinking about Relationships after Brain Injury
This book is one of very few books on the topic of family adaptation and relationships after brain injury. It is an important topic because of the unique impact that such a trauma can have on... (more)
Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature and Film
Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film explores an intriguing facet of human behavior never yet examined in its own right - an individual or a group may contrive, unawares, to repeat a... (more)
Why School Antibullying Programs Don't Work
This book serves as a guide for readers interested in improving school climate. Using fifteen years of consultation and research in a variety of United States and foreign schools, the authors strip... (more)
The Psychobiology of Trauma and Resilience Across the Lifespan
Research has suggested that childhood experiences confer risk/resilience for reactions to trauma in adulthood, and predictors and correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear to differ... (more)
Personality, Personality Disorder and Violence: An Evidence-based Approach
This book takes an evidence-based look at personality traits and types of psychological functioning that may contribute to personality disorder and violence, and makes links between the two. Each... (more)
Cognitive Approaches to the Assessment of Sexual Interest in Sexual Offenders
This book explores inexpensive, non-invasive methods of measuring sexual interest in sex offenders that can be used with both male and female offenders, and which will aid clinicians in evaluating... (more)
Safeguarding Children Living with Trauma and Family Violence: Evidence-Based Assessment, Analysis, and Planning Intervention
Offering a systematic approach to evidence-based assessment and planning for children living with trauma and family violence, this practical book shows how to assess and analyse the needs of the... (more)
Bearing Witness: Psychoanalytic Work with People Traumatised by Torture and State Violence
'In their discussion of torture, the contributors to this book write of what its victims cannot put into words and the work that has to be done with them to that end. Working with a victim's account... (more)
Trauma, Bonding and Family Constellations: Healing Injuries of the Soul
This book explores the different types of trauma experience, along with the bonding theories of John Bowlby and attachment work of Mary Ainsworth and others, forming a multigenerational picture of... (more)
Trauma, Culture, and Metaphor: Pathways of Transformation and Integration
In Trauma, Culture, and Metaphor, John Wilson and Jacob Lindy explore the language of both individual and collective trauma in an era dominated by globalization and interconnectedness. Through lucid,... (more)
Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives
This book analyzes the individual and collective experience of and response to trauma from a wide range of perspectives including basic neuroscience, clinical science, and cultural anthropology. Each... (more)
Treating Traumatized Children: Risk, Resilience and Recovery
While recent years have seen a vast increase in the literature on adult trauma, interest in childhood trauma has only recently started to gain momentum, encouraging new research and evidence-based... (more)
Understanding Child Abuse: The Partners of Child Sex Offenders Tell Their Stories
Drawing on extensive interviews and written testimonies, this book focuses on the stories and voices of partners of child sex offenders, highlighting how mothers feel about the situation they are in,... (more)
Moving On After Childhood Sexual Abuse: Understanding the Effects and Preparing for Therapy
This self-help guide allows those who have experienced childhood sexual abuse to consider the impact that it has had on their adult lives from a new perspective, helping them to understand the... (more)
School Violence: Studies in Alienation, Revenge and Redemption
Experiences of violence in schools are encountered much more frequently than they used to be. The shocking repercussions of these acts are felt nation-wide and particularly impact school populations,... (more)
Counselling Survivors of Domestic Abuse
Examines the psychobiological impact of domestic abuse within a trauma framework and explains how counsellors can facilitate recovery from domestic abuse within a secure, supportive therapeutic... (more)
Sexual Offending and Mental Health: Multi-disciplinary Management in the Community
Draws together theoretical, clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals working in the community and in-patient settings with sex offenders and those who have behaved in sexually... (more)
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)
Children in Genocide: Extreme Traumatization and Affect Regulation
'This book, containing untold suffering by children caught in the midst of extreme social violence, gives voice to their unthinkable, unspeakable experience and makes this into a telling... (more)
The Unbroken Soul: Tragedy, Trauma, and Human Resilience
The contributors to this volume are keenly aware that mental health professionals, while well trained to identify and treat psychopathology, are insufficiently informed or cognizant of human... (more)
Shattered Lives: Children Who Live with Courage and Dignity
Bears witness to the lives of children who have experienced abuse and neglect, and highlights the effects of early traumatic episodes. Chapters take the form of letters to a child capturing their... (more)
Child Abuse and Culture: Working with Diverse Families
This expertly written book provides an accessible framework for culturally competent practice with children and families in child maltreatment cases. Numerous workable strategies and concrete... (more)
The Abusive Personality: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships: Second Edition
This influential book provides an innovative framework for understanding and treating intimate partner violence. Integrating a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, Donald G. Dutton... (more)