Trauma and Violence Books
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)
Violence: A Public Health Menace and a Public Health Approach
'In addressing the issue of violence, our first purpose is to provide practical information that will help the reader to design specific intervention strategies aimed at preventing the escalation of... (more)
Child Abuse Trauma: Theory and Treatment of the Lasting Effects
This volume considers the unique and overlapping long-term effects of all major forms of child maltreatment. The author integrates information on seven types of child abuse and neglect - ranging from... (more)
Adult bullying: Perpetrators and victims
Stating that as many as one in 15 adults are affected by bullying, this volume explores the problems associated with bullying, the reasons for them, and the characteristics of the two parties -... (more)
Memories of Sexual Betrayal: Truth, Fantasy, Repression and Dissociation
In this comprehensive volume the repressed memory controversy is explored by leading clinicians in a discussion free of the accusatory tone that has often dominated the literature to date. The... (more)
Treating Abused Adolescents
The first book to explore the issue of abuse in adolescents - both the residual effects of earlier child abuse and current or cumulative abuse. This volume provides a sensitive account of how to... (more)
Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
A book of great scope and lucid intelligence that integrates the work of many pioneers and captures the keen spirit of inquiry that animates this rapidly developing field. It is a comprehensive... (more)
Women who hurt themselves: A book of hope and understanding
In this compassionate book, Dusty Miller tells the moving stories of women living under the shadow of self-mutilation, compulsive cosmetic surgery and chronic eating disorders. (more)
Trauma among older people: Issues and treatment
This study presents an integrative model of treatment that considers theories of treatment in light of special considerations relating to elderly patients. (more)