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Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

Series Editor: Charles Figley

The Psychosocial Stress Series includes books that make a contribution to understanding the role of psychosocial stress as a context for causing and absorbing stress.

Psychosocial stress is broadly viewed to include interpersonal, social, familial, societal, social psychological, and sociological factors that are causes or consequences of stress. Stress is viewed as a demand for action not only on the part of the person, but in relation to others.

The first book in the Series, the classic Stress Disorders among Vietnam Veterans: Theory, Research, and Treatment, for example, not only discussed the individual war veterans' mental disorders, but also in relation to family, friends, and fellow veterans.

Future books in the Series continue the tradition of groundbreaking theory, research, assessment, treatment, and policy books that contribute to the various fields of study, and will include books that make contributions to history, positive psychology, personality, fear studies, and clinical innovation.

New and Published Books

11-20 of 36 results in Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series
  1. When the Past Is Always Present

    Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures

    By Ronald A. Ruden

    Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

    When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures introduces several new ideas about trauma and trauma treatment. The first of these is that another way to treat disorders arising from the mind/brain may be to use the senses. This idea, which is at the core of...

    Published August 22nd 2010 by Routledge

  2. Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children and Adolescents

    Measures, Methods, and Youth in Context

    By Kathleen Nader

    Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

    In this volume, Kathleen Nader has compiled an articulate and comprehensive guide to the complex process of assessment in youth and adolescent trauma. There are many issues that are important to evaluating children and adolescents, and it is increasingly clear that reliance on just one type of...

    Published September 25th 2007 by Routledge

  3. MindBody Medicine

    Foundations and Practical Applications

    By Leo W. Rotan, Veronika Ospina-Kammerer

    Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

    MindBody Medicine encapsulates a variety of interventions designed to change, strengthen, or enhance a patient’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in order to promote improved health and wellness. There has been a growing trend among professionals in the health care fields to better understand the...

    Published December 6th 2006 by Routledge

  4. Combat Stress Injury

    Theory, Research, and Management

    Edited by Charles R. Figley, William Nash

    Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

    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. In this book, Charles Figley and Bill Nash have assembled a wide-ranging group of authors (military...

    Published December 3rd 2006 by Routledge

  5. Violent Death

    Resilience and Intervention Beyond the Crisis

    Edited by Edward K. Rynearson

    Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

    This book pulls together a definitive collection of work on the theory and practice of clinical, spiritual, and emotional support after the experience of violent death - counseling beyond the crisis. Over the past decade, there have been countless publications devoted to crisis response, crisis...

    Published October 10th 2006 by Routledge

  6. The Posttraumatic Self

    Restoring Meaning and Wholeness to Personality

    Edited by John P. Wilson

    Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

    Filling a gap that exists in most traumatology literature, The Posttraumatic Self provides an optimistic analysis of the aftermath of a traumatic event. This work appreciates the potentially positive effects of trauma and links those effects to the discovery of one's identity, character, and...

    Published December 19th 2005 by Routledge

  7. Mapping Trauma and Its Wake

    Autobiographic Essays by Pioneer Trauma Scholars

    Edited by Charles R. Figley

    Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

    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. Each author discusses how he or she first got interested in the field,...

    Published December 15th 2005 by Routledge

  8. Handbook of Women, Stress and Trauma

    Edited by Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

    Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

    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. Using a lifespan developmental approach, the text begins by addressing specific...

    Published December 24th 2004 by Routledge

  9. Family Stressors

    Interventions for Stress and Trauma

    Edited by Don R. Catherall

    Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

    Published November 26th 2004 by Routledge

  10. Disaster Mental Health Services

    A Primer for Practitioners

    By Diane Myers, David Wee

    Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

    Disaster mental health is a growing field of practice designed to help victims and relief workers learn to effectively cope with the extreme stresses they will face in the aftermath of a disaster. The goal of disaster mental health is to prevent the development of long-term, negative psychological...

    Published October 26th 2004 by Routledge