Trauma and Violence Books
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)
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)
Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege: A Guide to Therapeutic Work with Boarding School Survivors
Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege discusses how ex-boarders can be amongst the most challenging clients for therapists; even experienced therapists may unwittingly struggle to skilfully address the... (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)
The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma
The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working With Trauma is an invaluable and cutting edge resource providing the current theory, practice, and research on trauma and... (more)
Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis
Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis is the first of two volumes that delves into the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings related to mourning. The book uses... (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)
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)
Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents in Crisis: Treatments for Stress, Anxiety, and Trauma: Fourth Edition
This widely used practitioner resource and course text is considered the most comprehensive guide to working with children who have experienced major losses, family upheavals, violence in the school... (more)
Communicating Trauma: Clinical Presentations and Interventions with Traumatized Children
Communicating Trauma explores the various aspects of language and communication and how their development can be affected by childhood trauma and overwhelm. Multiple case-study vignettes describe how... (more)
Treating Traumatic Stress in Adults: The Practitioner's Expressive Writing Workbook
Treating Traumatic Stress in Adults is a resource for therapists of all disciplines for use in the treatment of adults suffering from post-traumatic stress. By reading this unique synthesization of... (more)
Systemic Interventions for Collective and National Trauma: Theory, Practice, and Evaluation
Systemic Interventions for Collective and National Trauma explains the theoretical basis for understanding collective and national trauma through the concept of systems theory, and gives ways of... (more)
Clinical Exercises for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents: Practical Guidance and Ready-To-Use Resources
How do I implement effective strategies for treating traumatic stress in this particular child or adolescent? Clinical Exercises for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents combines... (more)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: New Research
In this book, the authors gather and present new research in the study of post-traumatic stress disorder. Topics discussed include the diverse emotional consequences and treatment needs of sexual... (more)
Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective
Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase... (more)
Sexual Abuse and the Sexual Offender: Common Man or Monster?
Sexual Abuse and the Sexual Offender examines the myths perpetuated by the media and widely held by the public, by providing actual data, with case examples, to demonstrate how sexual offending... (more)