Trauma and Violence Books
Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment
This book focuses on contemporary topics relevant to individuals who assess female sexual offenders and the first to implement the scientist-practitioner model in the field. It integrates the latest... (more)
Desistance from Sex Offending
This book offers a fresh perspective on treating a population that is often demonized by policymakers, the public, and even clinicians. The authors argue that most sex offenders are 'people like us,'... (more)
Families Under Fire: Systemic Therapy with Military Families
This book provides guidelines for systems-based practice for a broad spectrum of civilian mental health practitioners who provide professional services to military personnel, their spouses, and their... (more)
Clinical Manual for Management of PTSD
As traumatic events, disasters, and war pervade everyday life around the globe, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) inevitably affects many people. The Clinical Manual for Management of PTSD... (more)
Working with Children to Heal Interpersonal Trauma: The Power of Play
Featuring in-depth case presentations from master clinicians, this volume highlights the remarkable capacity of traumatized children to guide their own healing process. The book describes what... (more)
Managing Trauma in the Workplace: Supporting Workers and Organisations
Managing Trauma in the Workplace looks at the impact of trauma not only from the perspective of the employees but also from that of their organisations. In addition to describing the negative... (more)
Clinician's Guide to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
The diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has increasingly been the focus of clinicians' attention when treating patients after stressful life events. This book addresses the needs and... (more)
The Internal World of the Juvenile Sex Offender: Through a Glass Darkly then Face to Face
The book argues the case for the usefulness of an empirically based understanding of the internal world of juvenile sex offenders as a way of humanely relating to their difficulties. It details the... (more)
When Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery: A Handbook for Managers and Co-Workers
Explains how managers and co-workers can help foster the process of emotional recovery for employees who have been traumatized and are returning to work.
No other source clearly and positively... (more)
The Trauma Treatment Handbook: Protocols Across the Spectrum
With so many trauma treatments to choose from, how can a therapist know which is best for his or her client? In a single, accessible volume, Robin Shapiro explains them all, making sense of the... (more)
Quick Steps to Resolving Trauma
Here, Bill O'Hanlon uses his characteristic breezy style to tackle a very difficult issue. This book details a philosophy and methods of working briefly and effectively with traumatised clients.... (more)
Sexual Violence
This book presents both a compact summary of the voluminous research on sexual violence and a practical, evidence-based 'how-to' treatment guide for mental health practitioners working in clinics and... (more)
Revenge: On the Dynamics of a Frightening Urge and its Taming
The authors' aim in this book is to focus on revenge as a neglected and insufficiently understood psychological mechanism in a broad spectrum ranging from the many and varied revenge acts of everyday... (more)
Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse: Tackling the Health and Mental Health Effects
Domestic violence, childhood sexual abuse, rape and sexual assault, and sexual exploitation through prostitution, pornography and trafficking can have many significant adverse impacts on a survivor's... (more)
When the Past is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes and Cures
This book introduces several new ideas about trauma and trauma treatment. The first of these is that another way to treat disorders arising from the mind/brain may be to use the senses. This idea,... (more)
Picking Up the Pieces After Domestic Violence: A Practical Resource for Supporting Parenting Skills
How does domestic violence affect children and parents, and their relationships with each other? How can a parent who has been abused regain authority over the children? Can a parent who has scared a... (more)
Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers: A Guide to Providing Understanding and Help
Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers is an accessible, comprehensive book providing an overview of the impact of trauma on children and adolescents and how they can be supported following... (more)
Posttraumatic Syndromes in Childhood and Adolescence: A Handbook of Research and Practice
This book brings together the latest research and practice interventions for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from a group of international contributors with North American and European perspectives.... (more)
Rebuilding Lives After Domestic Violence: Understanding Long-term Outcomes
Examines in-depth the long-term outcomes for women who have suffered domestic violence and abuse, based on interviews conducted over seven years. Through these interviews the author reveals the... (more)
Trauma, Torture and Dissociation: A Psychoanalytic View
Theoretical material is presented in close conjunction with clinical data in the form of vignettes and case studies to illustrate the key points outlined in this book, which focuses on the... (more)
Protecting Children from Violence: Evidence Based Interventions
Providing an evidence based understanding of the causes and consequences of violence against children, experts in the field examine the best practices used to help protect children from violence.... (more)
Psychotrauma, State, Setting: Psychoanalytical-Action-Related Model for a Treatment of Complexly Traumatized Patients (SPIM-20-CTP)
A complete conception of a psychotraumatologica treatment which is applicable to complex traumatized patients (representing the majorty of psychotrauma disorders in ambulant practices) as well as to... (more)
Enhancing Resilience in Survivors of Family Violence
This book discusses resilience in survivors of childhood incest, children of battered women, and individuals formerly in violent domestic relationships. According to resiliency theory, resilient... (more)
The Dark Side of Families: Current Family Violence Research
This unique volume attests to the coming of age of research on family violence. Leading authorities in this interdisciplinary area offer useful insights into such concerns as wife-battering, child... (more)
The Shame of Death, Grief, and Trauma
Shame is a common and pervasive feature of the human response to death and other losses, yet this often goes unrecognized due to a reluctance to acknowledge and confront it. This book intends to... (more)
Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing
This compassionate workbook has already helped tens of thousands of trauma survivors start rebuilding their lives, with a focus on the posttrauma present. Full of practical strategies for coping and... (more)
Injured Men: Trauma, Healing, and the Masculine Self
Injured Men is a unique casebook of clinical material pertaining to men who have sustained trauma. With the exception of those publications dealing with the military, clinical vignettes of... (more)
Family-Focused Trauma Intervention: Using Metaphor and Play with Victims of Abuse and Neglect
Treatment of abuse and neglect needs to be family-focused in order to reduce troubling symptoms, address family risk and relapse potential, treat cross-generational patterns, and remediate attachment... (more)
Helping Children and Young People Who Self-Harm: An Introduction to Self-harming and Suicidal Behaviours for Health Professionals
Every year over 25,000 young people attend emergency departments with problems resulting from self-harm. More still come to the attention of CAMHS teams, school nurses and other community-based... (more)
Hard Knocks: Domestic Violence and the Psychology of Storytelling
Draws on interviews carried out over a period of eight years, as well as novels, films, and domestic violence literature, to explain the role of storytelling in the history of the battered women's... (more)