Trauma and Violence Books
The Child's Own Story: Life Story Work with Traumatised Children
Helping traumatized children develop the story of their life and the lives of people closest to them is key to their understanding and acceptance of who they are and their past experiences. The... (more)
International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma
In this extraordinary new text, an international array of scholars explore the enduring legacy of such social shocks as war, genocide, slavery, tyranny, crime, and disease. Among the cases addressed... (more)
On the Ground After September 11: Mental Health Responses and Practical Knowledge Gained
On the Ground after September 11 is an insightful compilation of over one hundred personal and professional first-hand accounts of the September 11 experience - from the moment the first plane... (more)
Masculinities, Sexualities and Child Sexual Abuse
Why is child sexual abuse committed primarily by men and male adolescents, unlike other forms of child abuse? Is child sex offending, rather than being a deviant masculine sexual practice, related to... (more)
Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your
Includes paperback book and CD-Audio (Performance - spoken word). (more)
Cross-cultural Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD
Addresses key issues in the field of trauma treatment. This book presents case examples that illustrate an informative range of symptom profiles, comorbid conditions, and coping skills, as well as... (more)
The Scared Child: Helping Kids Overcome Traumatic Events
Dr. Barbara Brooks, a pioneer in adapting the technique of Critical Incident Debriefing to help children, shows parents how they can use this new, successful approach to help their kids work through... (more)
The Violence of Men - Therapy of Social Action:
Offers a method of curing the supposedly incurable: men who physically and sexually abuse their wives and children. The author provides a step-by-step programme for rehabilitation and reunification... (more)
Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis
Philip Jenkins argues not only that clergy sex abuse is far less widespread than the headlines suggest, but that there is nothing at all particularly Roman Catholic about the problem. (more)
Countertransference in the treatment of PTSD
It is now widely recognized that mental health professionals who work with trauma victims are themselves at risk for powerful countertransference reactions (CTRs), vicarious victimization, and... (more)
Traumatic events and mental health:
What constitutes a traumatic event? How and why does trauma affect people differently and what is a normal response? These questions are frequently asked. This guide provides an accessible resource... (more)
Cultures under siege: Collective violence and trauma in interdisciplinary perspectives
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how collective violence alters the perpetrators, victims and the societies in which it occurs. Drawing on field research, insights are offered... (more)
Reconstructing early intervention after trauma:
The introduction of a diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder heralded the dawn of modern psychotraumatology. On the strength of the conceptual refinements offered by this diagnosis, much... (more)
The trauma response: Treatment for the emotional injury
A conceptual approach to post-traumatic stress disorder, in which the response to trauma is seen as a reaction to injury rather than as an illness. Treatment is designed to enhance the natural... (more)
States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering
This book offers a comprehensive study of both the personal and political ways in which uncomfortable realities are avoided and evaded. It ranges from clinical states of depression, to media images... (more)
Worlds of hurt: Reading the literatures of trauma
This text presents a rendering of the relationships between individual trauma and cultural interpretation, using as its focus the Holocaust, the Vietnam war, and the phenomenon of sexualized violence... (more)