Trauma and Violence Books
Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing
This book looks at how to effectively engage traumatized clients, who avoid attachment, closeness, and painful feelings.
A large segment of the therapy population consist of those who are in denial... (more)
Free from Lies: Discovering Your True Needs
An astoundingly moving and perceptive work on how adults can finally overcome the traumas of their childhood, Free From Lies is the culmination of a life devoted to healing others. Since The Drama of... (more)
Containment in the Community: Supportive Frameworks for Thinking about Antisocial Behaviour and Mental Health
This book is aimed at all practitioners working in healthcare and criminal justice community settings with individuals displaying antisocial, offending, and challenging behaviours, at times... (more)
For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism
Ruth Stein's pioneering study explains suicidal terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective. She argues that most Islamic extremists undertake destructive and self-destructive actions not out of... (more)
From Rage to Courage: Answers to Readers' Letters
Alice Miller has received countless letters from readers all over the world. From Rage to Courage assembles the most recent, illuminating the issues and consequences of childhood abuse. Whether... (more)
The Trauma Controversy: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogues
More than a psychiatric or spiritual condition, trauma is an experience that exceeds the capacity of language to fix and settle it. As trauma crosses the lives of individuals and erupts into cultural... (more)
Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma
Victims of sexual and physical trauma can feel lost and disconnected from themselves and others. This new book explains how counsellors can restore connection to self and others, and facilitate... (more)
Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience: Integrating Care in Disaster Relief Work
Explores the interface between spiritual and psychological care in the context of disaster recovery work, drawing upon various disasters. (more)
Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy: The Arts and Human Suffering
"Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy: The Arts and Human Suffering" explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by... (more)
Brief Therapy Inside Out: A Case of Domestic Abuse
Working with a client trapped in an all-too-familiar cycle of victimization and self-blame, Leigh McCullough, a nationally recognized expert in brief psychodynamic therapy, illustrates her powerful... (more)
Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children and Adolescents: Measures, Methods, and Youth in Context
A guide to the complex process of assessment in youth and child trauma. This book covers various methods and measures for assessing trauma, including case examples to illustrate the integration of... (more)
Children and Adolescents in Trauma: Creative Therapeutic Approaches
Presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential childrens homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools. The contributors describe a wide range of... (more)
Child Protection, Domestic Violence and Parental Substance Misuse: Family Experiences and Effective Practice
This book draws on a wide range of evidence to explore the facts about the relationship between substance misuse and domestic violence and their effect on children, and examines the response of... (more)
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Cognitive Therapy with Children and Young People
This book discusses how trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy can be used to help children and adolescents who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. Cognitive behavior therapy is... (more)
Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain: Based on EMDR
Chronic physical or emotional pain is one of the most overwhelming problems we ever have to face. It often fails to respond to normally effective treatments such as medication and counselling. Time... (more)
A Casebook of Cognitive Therapy for Traumatic Stress Reactions
Many people experience traumatic events and whilst some gradually recover from such experiences, others find it more difficult and may seek professional help for a range of problems. A Casebook of... (more)
Preventing Child Maltreatment
Many child abuse prevention programs have targeted factors within the family, such as parenting skills. This book describes the next wave of prevention: the promotion of safer, healthier childrearing... (more)
Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930
Paul Lerner traces the intertwined histories of trauma and male hysteria in German society and psychiatry and shows how these concepts were swept up into debates about Germany's national health,... (more)
Perceived Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Adult Relationship Partners
Recently, increasing research and clinical attention has been directed toward the concerns of adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Nonetheless, the relationship partners of these... (more)
Bullying Prevention and Intervention: Realistic Strategies for Schools
Grounded in research and extensive experience in schools, this engaging book describes practical ways to combat bullying at the school, class, and individual levels. Step-by-step strategies are... (more)
Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma
Rising above the polemics surrounding sexual and physical abuse, David and Jill Savege Scharff bring a relational perspective to the integration of psychoanalytic and trauma theories in order to... (more)
Practical Interventions for Young People at Risk
This book responds to the urgent need for practical intervention approaches targeting young people at risk. It provides a much needed practical resource for practitioners and students from a variety... (more)
Trauma-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Women: A Clinician's Manual
The awareness of psychological trauma has grown exponentially in the past decade and clinicians in many areas have increasingly found themselves confronted with the need to provide trauma-related... (more)
Trauma and Serious Mental Illness
An exploration of the newfound connections between mental illness and trauma. For decades, the idea that serious mental illnesses (SMIs) are almost exclusively biologically-based and must be treated... (more)
Sex-Offender Therapy: A How-To Workbook for Therapists Treating Sexually Aggressive Adults, Adolescents, and Children
Sexual abuse, sexual addiction, and sexual offending have become a significant clinical problem. Successfully treating these disorders is the first step toward preventing future victims.... (more)
Domestic Violence Treatment for Abusive Women: Step by Step
Most therapists have experience with wives, girlfriends, and children of violent men, never suspecting that domestic violence offenders can be women too. In Domestic Violence Treatment for Abusive... (more)
A Relational Approach to Rehabilitation: Thinking about Relationships after Brain Injury
This book is one of very few books on the topic of family adaptation and relationships after brain injury. It is an important topic because of the unique impact that such a trauma can have on... (more)
Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature and Film
Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film explores an intriguing facet of human behavior never yet examined in its own right - an individual or a group may contrive, unawares, to repeat a... (more)
Why School Antibullying Programs Don't Work
This book serves as a guide for readers interested in improving school climate. Using fifteen years of consultation and research in a variety of United States and foreign schools, the authors strip... (more)
The Psychobiology of Trauma and Resilience Across the Lifespan
Research has suggested that childhood experiences confer risk/resilience for reactions to trauma in adulthood, and predictors and correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear to differ... (more)