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Integrates complex theoretical frameworks, ranging from those of Freud to Seligman, Horowitz to Selye, to paint a powerful explanatory picture of the interaction among trauma, person, and post-traumatic environment.

Provides an overview of the causes and treatment approaches for counseling families under stress, and focuses on several examples of extreme tension.

Assists clinicians and traumatologists in "making the bridge" between their clinical knowledge and skills and the unique, complex, chaotic and highly political field of disaster. It combines information from a reservoir of prior research and literature, as well as from the authors' experience.

The volume's main sections are based on the stages of therapy: creating a context for change, challenging behaviors, expanding alternatives, and consolidation. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Explores the language of both individual and collective trauma in an era dominated by globalization and interconnectedness. This title builds a bridge between the etymology of trauma-related terms commonly used in the West and those of others cultures.

This concise, well-organized, timely text is a tool for anyone involved in the helping professions.

Introduces the ideas about trauma and trauma treatment. Using evolutionary biological principles and neuroscientific studies, this book outlines how havening touch de-links the emotional experience from a trauma, essentially making it just an ordinary memory.

This volume is the latest in a series that focuses on the immediate and long-term consequences of highly stressful events. It focuses on those individuals who provide therapy to victims of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder crisis and trauma counselors, Red Cross workers, nurses, doctors, and other car

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 these different facets. It is useful for those in the field of trauma assessment.

The Handbook of Women, Stress and Trauma focuses on the stresses and traumas that are unique to the lives of women. It is the first text to merge research from the fields of trauma and women's health and development.

Combat Stress Injury represents a definitive collection of the most current theory, research, and practice in the area of combat and operational stress management, edited by two experts in the field, Charles Figley and Bill Nash.

Mapping Trauma and Its Wake is a compilation of autobiographic essays by seventeen of the field's pioneers, each of whom has been recognized for his or her contributions by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

For those veterans who do not respond productively to, or who have little interest in office-based, regimented, and symptom-focused treatments, the innovative approaches laid out in Healing War Trauma is the guidebook clinicians need to chart new paths to healing.

For those veterans who do not respond productively to, or who have little interest in office-based, regimented, and symptom-focused treatments, the innovative approaches laid out in Healing War Trauma is the guidebook clinicians need to chart new paths to healing.

Decades after Charles Figley's landmark Trauma and Its Wake was published, our understanding of trauma has grown and deepened, but we still face considerable challenges when treating trauma survivors. This is especially the case for professionals who work with veterans and active-duty military personnel. War Trauma and Its Wake, then, is a vital book. The editors-one a Vietnam veteran who wrote the overview chapter on treatment for Trauma and Its Wake, the other an Army Reserve psychologist with four deployments-have produced a book that addresses both the specific needs of particular warrior communities as well as wider issues such as battlemind, guilt, suicide, and much, much more. The editors' and contributors' deep understanding of the issues that warriors face makes War Trauma and Its Wake a crucial book for understanding the military experience, and the lessons contained in its pages are essential for anyone committed to healing war trauma.

This volume describes PTSD along with clinical guidelines for a broad spectrum of effective treatment approaches. Promotes theoretical, therapeutic, and administrative understanding of the chronic and delayed post-traumatic stress disorders.

Organized into three sections, this book focuses on the effects that trauma can have on the stages of attachment early in life, and the continuing psychological mechanisms that can perpetuate life-span development. It addresses a variety of issues concerning the re-integration of personality following a traumatic experience.

Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health focuses on the clinician and the impact of working with trauma victims in the aftermath of massive disasters.

Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health focuses on the clinician and the impact of working with trauma victims in the aftermath of massive disasters.

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.