Trauma and Violence Books
Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder
This ground-breaking book examines the role of crime in the lives of people with Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, a condition which appears to be... (more)
A Big and a Little One is Gone: Crisis Therapy with a Two-year-old Boy
This is a story from inside the child psychologist's room. Victor, who is two and a half years old, has lost his mother and younger brother in a car accident. He is 'sunny and happy' and does not... (more)
Intimate Warfare: Regarding the Fragility of Family Relations
The community in which children are nursed; the family, should by all means be a safe haven. However, it is not. People in family relations are more likely to be threatened, hit, kicked, raped or... (more)
Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence
Offering a fresh perspective on treatment, this book presents an overarching framework and many specific strategies for working with violent youth and their families. The authors shed light on the... (more)
The Abusive Personality: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships: Second Edition (Hardback)
The new edition of this popular, strong seller includes two new chapters and thorough updates. The book describes an evidence-based treatment approach for a perennial, urgent problem. It has little... (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)
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for Dummies
This is a plain-English resource for people suffering from the after effects of a traumatic experience. An estimated five percent of Americans - over 13 million people - suffer from Post Traumatic... (more)
The Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome: What to Do If Someone in Your Life Has a Dual Personality - Or If You Do
This is the first self-help book to address this abusive syndrome and to help readers manage the Jekyll/Hydes in their lives. Beverly Engel brings her expertise in emotionally abusive relationships... (more)
Working with 'Denied' Child Abuse: The Resolutions Approach
How can professionals build constructive relationships with families where the parents dispute professional allegations of serious child abuse? How can meaningful safety for children be created in... (more)
A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions
This book's intent is to increase our understanding of the field of trauma, shape practice with both traumatized and non-traumatized people, and increase our understanding of the impact of extreme... (more)
Stolen Tomorrows: Understanding and Treating Women's Childhood Sexual Abuse
See catalogue number 26947 for the paperback edition. "Stolen Tomorrows" will encourage women who have been abused to think about, talk about and seek help for what has been their secret shame. It... (more)
Making an Impact: Children and Domestic Violence - A Reader: Second Edition
This fully updated Reader provides a comprehensive review of recent research and legislation relating to domestic violence and its consequences for children, and identifies the implications for... (more)
Living Alongside a Child's Recovery: Therapeutic Parenting with Traumatized Children
The idea of using therapeutic parenting to help with the recovery of traumatized children is the focus in the latest title in the "Delivering Recovery" series, "Living Alongside a Child's Recovery".... (more)
Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches
Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art, and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family... (more)
Psychotherapy of Abused and Neglected Children: Second Edition
Now in a revised and updated second edition, this widely used guidebook and text combines theory, research, and practical clinical strategies. Provided is a thoughtful framework for understanding the... (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)
Offenders' Memories of Violent Crimes
Violent offenders often claim amnesia in order to avoid punishment. It is important for investigators and juries to ascertain whether such amnesia is genuine or feigned; an offender with amnesia is... (more)
The Dissociative Mind
The Dissociative Mind takes the reader from neurophysiology to attachment theory to the clinical remediation of trauma states to the reality of evil. It provides a masterful overview of a literature... (more)
Trauma and Psychosis: New Directions for Theory and Therapy
"Trauma and Psychosis" provides a valuable contribution to the current understanding of the possible relationships between the experience of trauma and the range of phenomena currently referred to as... (more)
Helping Her Get Free: A Guide for Families and Friends of Abused Women
The classic guide for those hoping to help a loved one who is being abused. Teaches readers how to recognize abuse, become effective advocates, and take on the difficult role of being anchors rather... (more)
Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims: The Sexual Abuse Crisis and the Catholic Church
The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church captured headlines and mobilized public outrage in January 2002. But much of the commentary that immediately followed was reductionistic, focusing on... (more)
Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
"Prologue to Violence" reveals what happens to those who survive horrific childhoods, only to commit terrifying crimes of their own. Interning on a hospital prison ward, Abby Stein listened to... (more)
Mothering Through Domestic Violence
This work is for those working in the fields of family and child welfare and policy makers. Research into children and domestic violence in recent years has emphasized the importance of giving... (more)
Counselling for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Third Edition
Covering the full spectrum of post-traumatic states, "Counselling for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" provides a clear and detailed account of how these states can be recognised and includes chapters... (more)
By Their Own Young Hand: Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideas in Adolescents
Self-harm in adolescents is an increasingly recognized problem, and there is growing awareness of the important role schools and health services can play in detecting and supporting those at risk.... (more)
The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization
In this book, three leading researchers and clinicians share what they have learned from treating and studying chronically traumatized individuals across more than 65 years of collective experience.... (more)
The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
World-renowned psychoanalyst, Alice Miller has devoted a lifetime to studying how the cruelties inflicted on children cripple them as adults. In this new work, Miller goes further, investigating the... (more)
Strategic Interventions for People in Crisis, Trauma and Disaster
"Strategic Interventions for People in Crisis, Trauma and Disasters" enable therapists to walk into potentially explosive situations with a thorough understanding of the interactional dynamics and a... (more)
Shattered Lives: Children Who Live with Courage and Dignity (Hardback)
See catalogue number 27515 for the paperback edition. "Shattered Lives" bears witness to the lives of children who have experienced abuse and neglect, and highlights the effects of early traumatic... (more)
Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: Third Edition
This book provides practical strategies for those new to counselling in this field. This updated and expanded edition provides comprehensive coverage of the theory and practice of counselling... (more)