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.
The Compassion Fatigue Workbook: Creative Tools for Transforming Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Traumatization
1st Edition
By Françoise Mathieu
January 31, 2012
The Compassion Fatigue Workbook is a lifeline for any helping professional facing the physical and emotional exhaustion that can shadow work in the helping professions. Since 2001 the activities in this Workbook have helped thousands of helpers in the fields of healthcare, community mental health, ...
School Rampage Shootings and Other Youth Disturbances: Early Preventative Interventions
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathleen Nader
January 13, 2012
Together, School Rampage Shootings and Other Youth Disturbances and its accompanying downloadable resources provide a complete toolkit for using early preventative interventions with elementary-school age children. In ten thoughtful, clearly written chapters, both new and experienced practitioners ...
Transcending Trauma: Survival, Resilience, and Clinical Implications in Survivor Families
1st Edition
By Bea Hollander-Goldfein, Nancy Isserman, Jennifer Goldenberg
November 28, 2011
Based on twenty years of intense qualitative research, Transcending Trauma presents an integrated model of coping and adaptation after trauma that incorporates the best of recent work in the field with the expanded insights offered by Holocaust survivors. In the book’s vignettes and interview ...
The Posttraumatic Self: Restoring Meaning and Wholeness to Personality
1st Edition
Edited
By John P. Wilson
January 11, 2006
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 ...
Family Stressors: Interventions for Stress and Trauma
1st Edition
Edited
By Don R. Catherall
December 23, 2004
This book is aimed at practitioners working with couples and families dealing with the impact of a traumatic/stressful event, with chapters considering events such as the loss of a child, infertility in a couple, sexual abuse of a partner, traumatization of a parent, traumatization of a child, ...
Disaster Mental Health Services: A Primer for Practitioners
1st Edition
By Diane Myers, David Wee
November 25, 2004
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 ...
The Pain of Helping: Psychological Injury of Helping Professionals
1st Edition
By Patrick J. Morrissette
August 19, 2004
The purpose of The Pain of Helping is to provide a source that identifies, condenses, and consolidates information pertaining to psychological injury. In addition to providing details regarding construct definition, information pertaining to symptomatology, assessment instruments (e.g. structured ...
Trauma And Its Wake
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles R. Figley
January 01, 1986
First published in 1987. Trauma and Its Wake, Volume II: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Theory, Research, and Treatment is the eighth book in the Psychosocial Stress Book Series. The purpose of the Series is to develop and publish books that in some way make a significant contribution to the ...
Trauma And Its Wake
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles R. Figley
January 01, 1985
Published in the year 1985, Trauma and its Wake is a valuable contribution to the field of Counseling and School Psychology....
Stress And The Family: Coping With Catastrophe
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles R. Figley, Hamilton I. McCubbin
August 01, 1983
First Published in 1983. All families experience stress: the adjustment period when an infant is born; the many problems engendered by adolescents; role, dual-career, and work demands; environmental and societal problems; sexuality; divorce; marital tension; and the stress inherent in single ...