Psychosocial Stress Series
About the Book Series
The Psychosocial Stress Series includes books that make important contributions to theory, research, assessment, treatment, and policy on the causes and consquences of stress and trauma.
Mapping Trauma and Its Wake: Autobiographic Essays by Pioneer Trauma Scholars
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles R. Figley
July 11, 2016
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,...
MindBody Medicine: Foundations and Practical Applications
1st Edition
By Leo W. Rotan, Veronika Ospina-Kammerer
November 27, 2015
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...
Treating Stress In Families.........
1st Edition
By Charles Figley
October 06, 2015
Provides an overview of the causes and treatment approaches for counseling families under stress, and focuses on several examples of extreme tension....
Stress Disorders Among Vietnam Veterans: Theory, Research
1st Edition
By Charles R. Figley
August 19, 2015
First published in 1978. This book represents a unique accomplishment in pulling together in one place the broadest collection of material yet published on the psychological problems of veterans of the Vietnam war. It will provide not only an important historical document, but an invaluable ...
When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures
1st Edition
By Ronald A. Ruden
June 29, 2015
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 ...
Compassion Fatigue: Coping With Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder In Those Who Treat The Traumatized
1st Edition
By Charles R. Figley
June 23, 2015
First published in 1995. Traumatology, or the field of traumatic stress studies, has become a dominant focus of interest in the mental health fields only in the past decade. Yet the origin of the study of human reactions to traumatic events can be traced to the earliest medical writings in Kunus ...
Combat Stress Injury: Theory, Research, and Management
1st Edition
Edited
By William Nash
April 23, 2015
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...
Empathy in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD
1st Edition
By John P. Wilson, Ph.D., Rhiannon Brywnn Thomas, Ph.D.
April 23, 2015
Empathy in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD examines how professionals are psychologically impacted by their work with trauma clients. A national research study provides empirical evidence, documenting the struggle for professionals to maintain therapeutic equilibrium and empathic attunement with ...
Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children and Adolescents: Measures, Methods, and Youth in Context
1st Edition
By Kathleen Nader
April 23, 2015
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...
Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health: Understanding Risks and Promoting Resilience
1st Edition
Edited
By Gertie Quitangon, Mark R. Evces
January 28, 2015
Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health focuses on the clinician and the impact of working with disaster survivors. Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, mass shootings, terrorism and other large-scale catastrophic events have increased in the last decade and disaster resilience has become a national ...
Stress And The Family: Coping With Normative Transitions
1st Edition
Edited
By Hamilton I McCubbin, Charles R. Figley
December 23, 2014
First published in 1983. This is Volume 1 of two in a collection of on stress and the family. The books view the family as both producing and reacting to stress and attempt to identify the sources of stress from either inside or outside the family microsystem. Further, the volumes distinguish ...
Violent Death: Resilience and Intervention Beyond the Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Edward K. Rynearson
December 22, 2014
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 ...