Trauma and Violence Books
The international handbook of suicide and attempted suicide:
This book is an international text on understanding, treating and preventing suicidal behaviour. It explores concepts and theories which best guide work within this field and covers key research... (more)
Intimacy and Alienation: Memory, Trauma and Personal Being
New in paperback. Drawing on self psychology, attachment therapy and theories of trauma, this book looks at the nature of self and how it develops, then goes on to explore the form and feeling of... (more)
Traumatic pasts: History, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern Age, 1870-1930
This text offers a variety of perspectives on mental trauma in war, medicine, culture, and society in modern European and American history. The book operates on the premise that the historical... (more)
Perspectives on loss and trauma: Assaults on the self
An introductory text to this broad interdisciplinary field by one of its leading exponents. Where most texts concentrate on one specific area, such as death and dying or stress and coping, this work... (more)
Making Enquiries into Alleged Child Abuse and Neglect
Focusing on good working practice in all aspects of conducting enquiries into alleged child abuse, this book takes a positive approach to improving relationships between the workers and the families... (more)
Home Truths about Child Sexual Abuse: A Reader
This publication provides a review of academic and professional literature on the family, with particular reference to gender, social inequalities and ethnicity. Violence and abuse occur regularly... (more)
Addictions and Trauma Recovery
Dusty Miller's treatment model for addiction and self-injury, outlined in the best-selling Women Who Hurt Themselves, has been expanded in this new work to include the physical and spiritual impact... (more)
Trauma: A Genealogy
Psychic trauma is one of the most frequently invoked ideas in the behavioural sciences and the humanities today. Yet bitter disputes have marked the discussion of trauma ever since it first became... (more)
Stress and Trauma
This work provides an overview of traumatic stress studies. It reviews the full range of clinical disorders that may result from extreme stress, with particular emphasis on the most common disorder -... (more)
Response to disaster: Psychosocial, community, and ecological approaches
Service after cataclysmic life events is a visible and prominent component of social response. The book reconciles the technical, theoretical, and applied interests represented in populations and... (more)
Creating a Safe Place: Helping Children and Families Recover From Child Sexual Abuse
This book demonstrates how therapeutic sevices can be improved through feed back from service users and how creative activities such as storytelling, painting and drama can encourage the expression... (more)
Creative Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Despite heightened media attention and the increase in professional knowledge about child abuse, many children are still being failed by the system. Using attachment theory as a foundation, this book... (more)
Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorder
Mental, physical, or sexual abuse in close personal relationships commonly results in trauma that is very different from the trauma of accidents, illness, or war. Little is more intellectually... (more)