Trauma and Stress
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From Trauma to Healing
A Social Worker's Guide to Working with Survivors
From Trauma to Healing: A Social Worker’s Guide for Working With Survivors is the next significant publication on trauma in the field of social work. Since September 11 and Hurricane Katrina, social workers have come together increasingly to consider how traumatic events impact practice. From...
Published February 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Practice
From the authors who pioneered the concept of posttraumatic growth comes Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Practice, a book that brings the study of growth after trauma into the twenty-first century. Clinicians will find a framework that’s easy to use and flexible enough to be tailored to the needs...
Published December 7th 2012 by Routledge
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Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth
Research and Practice
Posttraumatic growth is an area in which investigations are now being undertaken in many different parts of the world. The view that individuals can be changed--sometimes in radically good ways--by their struggle with trauma is ancient and widespread. However, the systematic focus by scholars and...
Published March 27th 2006 by Routledge
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Retraumatization
Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
Exposure to potentially traumatic events puts individuals at risk for developing a variety of psychological disorders; the complexities involved in treating them are numerous and have serious repercussions. How should diagnostic criteria be defined? How can we help a client who does not present...
Published July 20th 2011 by Routledge
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The Child Survivor
Healing Developmental Trauma and Dissociation
The Child Survivor is a clinically rich, comprehensive overview of the treatment of children and adolescents who have developed dissociative symptoms in response to ongoing developmental trauma. Joyanna Silberg, a widely respected authority in the field, uses case examples to illustrate...
Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children
Healing from Losses, Violence, Abuse, and Neglect
Learn to build the trust you need to help children in crisis! Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children: Healing from Losses, Violence, Abuse, and Neglect is a therapeutic guide to helping troubled children move beyond the traumatic experiences that haunt them. Author Dr. Richard Kagan,...
Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity
Working on Identity and Selves
Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity provides psychoanalytic insights into dissociation, in particular Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), and offers a variety of responses to the questions of self, identity and dissociation. With contributions from a range of clinicians from both America and...
Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
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Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity
Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder, 2nd Edition
This Revised Edition of Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity investigates the subject of Dissociative Identity Disorder. With brand new chapters on police work and attachment theory it has been fully updated to include new research and the latest understanding of patterns of attachment theory...
Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
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Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors
A Clinician’s Guide
This is a book for clinicians who specialize in helping trauma survivors and, through the course of treatment, find themselves unexpectedly confronted with client disclosures of self-destructive behaviors, including self-mutilation and other manifestations of deliberately "hurting the body" such as...
Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Advances in Social Work Practice with the Military
With the United States’ involvement in numerous combat operations overseas, the need for civilian social workers with the clinical skills necessary to work with members of the military returning from combat, as well as their families, has never been more critical. In this practical and important...
Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Rhythms of Recovery
Trauma, Nature, and the Body
Rhythm is one of the most important components of our survival and well-being. It governs the patterns of our sleep and respiration and is profoundly tied to our relationships with friends and family. But what happens when these rhythms are disrupted by traumatic events? Can balance be restored,...
Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma
To Have Our Hearts Broken
This book offers reflections on how liberation might be experienced by clients as a result of the therapeutic relationship. It explores how power and resistance might be most effectively and ethically understood and utilised in clinical practice with survivors of trauma. Power,...
Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge
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Crisis Education and Service Program Designs
A Guide for Administrators, Educators, and Clinical Trainers, 2nd Edition
Crisis Education and Service Program Designs, is a guide for educators, administrators, and clinical trainers who may otherwise feel ill-prepared for the complex tasks of teaching, program development, supervision, and consultation in the crisis-care arena. The book provides a framework for more...
Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
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People in Crisis
Clinical and Diversity Perspectives, 6th Edition
The first edition of People in Crisis, published in 1978, established success as a comprehensive and user-friendly text for health and social service professionals. The book and its following incarnations included critical life events and life cycle transition challenges, clearly pointing out...
Published February 11th 2009 by Routledge
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Overcoming Your Workplace Stress
A CBT-based Self-help Guide
Occupational stress affects millions of people every year and is not only costly to the individual – in terms of their mental and physical health – but also results in major costs for organisations due to workplace absence and loss of productivity. This Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) based...
Published May 31st 2011 by Routledge
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CBT for Occupational Stress in Health Professionals
Introducing a Schema-Focused Approach
The costs of occupational stress in terms of sickness absence, ill-health-related retirement, litigation and lost productivity are increasing, putting strain on economies across the world. The fact that health care work is inherently more stressful than many other occupations makes it vital that...
Published May 10th 2006 by Routledge