Trauma and Violence Books
Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Neglect: Component-Based Psychotherapy
Grounded in 40 years of clinical practice and research, this book provides a systematic yet flexible evidence-based framework for treating adult survivors of complex trauma, particularly those... (more)
Cinematic Reflections on The Legacy of the Holocaust: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
An international group of psychoanalysts and film scholars address the enduring emotional legacy of the Holocaust in Cinematic Reflections on the Legacy of the Holocaust: Psychoanalytic Perspectives.... (more)
Protecting children: A social model
This book brings together leading scholars of child protection to present an in-depth analysis of the current state of policy and practice as well as assessments of the effects of inequality on... (more)
Using Stories, Art, and Play in Trauma-Informed Treatment: Case Examples and Applications Across the Lifespan
This book shows new and experienced therapists how to use meaningful therapeutic material in art, stories, and play to facilitate shifts in outlook and behavior. Using a wide variety of case studies,... (more)
When a Child has been Abused: Towards Psychoanalytic Understanding and Therapy
This important and wide-ranging book explores the world of a child or young person who has been abused or neglected. It seeks to understand their world, to ease the pain from which they suffer, and... (more)
Working with Trans Survivors of Sexual Violence: A Guide for Professionals
This book provides practical advice for professionals working with transgender (including non-binary) people who have survived any form of sexual violence and abuse. It gives professionals an... (more)
EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology: Interventions to Enhance Embodiment in Trauma Treatment
This book is written to meet the growing interest in a synthesis of somatic psychology with EMDR Therapy as a comprehensive trauma treatment model. Interventions are presented as scripted protocols... (more)
Healing Relational Trauma with Attachment-Focused Interventions: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy with Children and Families
DDP is an attachment-focused treatment for children and adolescents who experience abuse and neglect and who are now living in stable foster and adoptive families. Its central interventions are... (more)
The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
The ability to offer the safe sanctuary of presence is central to treating trauma and therapeutic practice. This book offers brain- and body-based insights and skills for the reader to heal, not only... (more)
Art-Making with Refugees and Survivors: Creative and Transformative Responses to Trauma After Natural Disasters War and Other Crises
This timely book reveals the therapeutic effect group art projects can have when working with survivors and refugees of war, natural disaster, poverty, pandemic and genocide. (more)
Fun Games and Physical Activities to Help Heal Children Who Hurt: Get On Your Feet!
Develop children's brains and bonds with this collection of no-tech, physical games, strategies and activities. Ideal for children who have experienced neglect, abuse and trauma, these "real-world"... (more)
Trauma & the Struggle to Open Up: From Avoidance to Recovery and Growth
In therapy, we see how relationships are central to many traumatic experiences, but relationships are also critical to trauma recovery. Grounded firmly in attachment and trauma theory, this book... (more)
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing
From elementary schools to psychotherapy offices, mindfulness meditation is an increasingly mainstream practice. At the same time, trauma remains a fact of life: the majority of us will experience a... (more)
Psychosocial Support for Humanitarian Aid Workers: A Roadmap of Trauma and Critical Incident Care
Humanitarian aid workers are trying to make a difference in an increasingly dangerous world. Psychosocial Support for Humanitarian Aid Workers: A Roadmap of Trauma and Critical Incident Care... (more)
Treating PTSD: A Compassion-Focused CBT Approach
Treating PTSD presents a comprehensive, compassion-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach that provides therapists with the evidence-based information they need to understand trauma's... (more)
Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy: Beyond Evidence-Based Practice
Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy focuses on the creation of the therapist as healing presence rather than technique administrator-in other words, how to be rather than what to do.... (more)
Hope for Children of Trauma: An International perspective
Hope for Children of Trauma: An International Perspective synthesizes all the existing evidence, policy and practice from around the world for children and youth who have experienced different forms... (more)
Re-Circuiting Trauma Pathways in Adults, Parents, and Children: A Brain-Based, Intergenerational Trauma Treatment Method
Re-Circuiting Trauma Pathways in Adults, Parents, and Children presents the evidence-informed and substantiated Intergenerational Trauma Treatment Model (ITTM), with an emphasis on up-to-date trauma... (more)
Mindfulness-Oriented Interventions for Trauma: Integrating Contemplative Practices
Grounded in research and accumulated clinical wisdom, this book describes a range of ways to integrate mindfulness and other contemplative practices into clinical work with trauma survivors. The... (more)
Emotion Focused Family Therapy with Children and Caregivers: A Trauma-Informed Approach
This book introduces Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) as an evidence-based intervention for children through the integration of parent trauma treatment and emotion-focused techniques. A team of... (more)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy: Third Edition:Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures
The authoritative presentation of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, this groundbreaking book - now revised and expanded - has enhanced the clinical repertoires of more... (more)
Art Therapy with Military Veterans: Trauma and the Image
Art Therapy with Military Veterans: Trauma and the Image provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and applying art therapy with former and serving armed forces personnel who have Post... (more)
Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject: Historical Studies in Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis
Recent scholarship has inquired into the socio-historical, discursive genesis of trauma. Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject, however, seeks what has not been actualized in trauma studies -... (more)
Complex Psychological Trauma: The Centrality of Relationship
Complex Psychological Trauma takes clinicians beyond the standard approaches for treating simple, single-stressor incident PTSD. Here the focus is on the major choice points that establish the... (more)
Early Intervention for Trauma and Traumatic Loss:
Few dispute the importance of helping people cope with severe life stressors, but questions remain about how to identify those at risk of chronic problems and which interventions facilitate recovery.... (more)
Treating Psychological Trauma and PTSD
This volume presents an innovative psychobiological framework for understanding and treating PTSD. A major emphasis is the need to reformulate diagnostic criteria and treatment goals to reflect... (more)
Aggression and Destructiveness: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
This book makes a valuable contribution to the attempt to make sense of human aggression, destructiveness and violence perpetrated against the self, others and reality. It will be of great interest... (more)
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents [Handbook]
Posttraumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents is an expert guide to the most salient issues pertaining to PTSD, stress, trauma, and the concurrent conditions that affect children and... (more)
The Presence of the Therapist: Treating Childhood Trauma
The Presence of the Therapist uses clinical studies based on the author's publications over the past 18 years to illustrate work with severely distressed children. The reader is encouraged to enter a... (more)
Solution-Focused Treatment of Domestic Violence Offenders: Accountability for Change
This book describes a cutting-edge treatment approach that creates effective, positive changes in domestic violence offenders. Solution-focused therapy focuses on holding offenders accountable and... (more)