This book introduces Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) as an evidence-based intervention for children through the integration of parent trauma treatment and emotion-focused techniques. A team of... (more)
The authoritative presentation of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, this groundbreaking book - now revised and expanded - has enhanced the clinical repertoires of more... (more)
Art Therapy with Military Veterans: Trauma and the Image provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and applying art therapy with former and serving armed forces personnel who have Post... (more)
Recent scholarship has inquired into the socio-historical, discursive genesis of trauma. Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject, however, seeks what has not been actualized in trauma studies -... (more)
Complex Psychological Trauma takes clinicians beyond the standard approaches for treating simple, single-stressor incident PTSD. Here the focus is on the major choice points that establish the... (more)
Few dispute the importance of helping people cope with severe life stressors, but questions remain about how to identify those at risk of chronic problems and which interventions facilitate recovery.... (more)
This volume presents an innovative psychobiological framework for understanding and treating PTSD. A major emphasis is the need to reformulate diagnostic criteria and treatment goals to reflect... (more)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents is an expert guide to the most salient issues pertaining to PTSD, stress, trauma, and the concurrent conditions that affect children and... (more)
The Presence of the Therapist uses clinical studies based on the author's publications over the past 18 years to illustrate work with severely distressed children. The reader is encouraged to enter a... (more)
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) has been demonstrated to be extremely effective in the treatment of residual psychological effects of PTSD and other conditions including... (more)
This book describes a cutting-edge treatment approach that creates effective, positive changes in domestic violence offenders. Solution-focused therapy focuses on holding offenders accountable and... (more)
This book provides a vivid insight into working with a client who is a survivor of child sexual abuse. Using fictitious dialogue it illustrates the person-centred approach and relates it to how... (more)
Exploring the complex issues of trauma, attachment and family placement, the contributors to this book provide a variety of complementary perspectives on practice in this area. Focussing on how to... (more)
Drawing on her long-standing experience as a manager of services for refugees and survivors, Judith Hassan presents a practical guide to working with people who have lived through war trauma. She... (more)
As the first edited volume to offer a multicultural approach to violence, this book examines the role of cultural, social and historical factors in the manifestation and perpetuation of the cycle of... (more)
The international feminist contributors to this book look through the lens of poststructuralism at how child sexual abuse is differently represented and understood in the populist, academic,... (more)
This is a comprehensive anthology on the psychological treatment of Holocaust survivors and their families. It covers the full range of current theoretical and therapeutic approaches. It is a major... (more)
This book is about the influence of twenty years of work in the field of incest on a therapist's professional and personal life. It is comprised of individual cases, and touches upon topics including... (more)
This book offers a clinical study of psychic trauma and provides a framework through which to understand the long term effects of overwhelming life experiences. Ira Brenner draws on two different... (more)
This work presents The Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM), a systematic modification of psychodrama, for therapists working with people who are suffering from severe trauma and post-traumatic stress... (more)
In the treatment of addictions and their psychological understanding, cognitive-behavioural and motivation approaches have been paramount. In contrast, the psychodynamic contribution has been muted.... (more)
In this major new book, Mary Hamer offers a new perspective on incest, making a link with the scandal of sexual abuse on the part of priests. She places sexual abuse in the context of the whole... (more)
This important volume explores the current theoretical and practice issues involved in working therapeutically with young men who have sexually abused. Linking theory to practice, Andrew Durham... (more)
More and more people are going to therapy with the problem of the after- effects of sexual abuse. This text povides clinicians with a forward- looking, respectful therapy that taps into, and honors,... (more)
In a work that is sure to stir controversy, Girshick exposes the shocking, hidden reality of woman-to-woman sexual violence and gives voice to the abused. Based on a nationwide survey and in-depth... (more)
Written for those already in the field as well as practitioners-in-training, this volume is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive, practical approach to the assessment and treatment of... (more)