Series in Trauma and Loss
Group Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Conceptualization, Themes and Processes
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce Young, Dudley Blake
December 01, 2014
Group Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorders is a collection written by renowned PTSD experts who provide group treatment to trauma survivors. The book reviews the state-of-the-art applications of group therapy for survivors of trauma such as: rape victims, combat veterans, adult survivors ...
Children and Disasters
1st Edition
By Norma Gordon, Norman L. Farberow, Carl A. Maida
November 10, 2014
When disaster strikes, survivors suddenly find themselves in a world that has become confusing and unfamiliar. Such traumatic events impose severe psychological strain on every member of a community, but children are a particularly vulnerable group requiring special attention. Children and ...
When A Community Weeps: Case Studies In Group Survivorship
1st Edition
Edited
By Ellen S. Zinner, Mary Beth Williams
August 12, 2014
When a Community Weeps provides a model for effective counselor intervention in bereaved communities. Individual chapters have been written by traumatologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and family members who have witnessed the effects of traumatic events first hand. Each ...
Not Trauma Alone: Therapy for Child Abuse Survivors in Family and Social Context
1st Edition
By Steven Gold
July 17, 2014
How is an individual to lead a comfortable, productive existence when he or she was never taught the skills necessary for effective living? Adult survivors of child abuse often face this dilemma. Instead of being nurtured as children and taught life-skills by their caregivers, child abuse survivors...
Honoring Differences: Cultural Issues in the Treatment of Trauma and Loss
1st Edition
By Kathleen Nader, Nancy Dubrow, B. Hudnall Stamm
June 09, 2014
Wars, violence, and natural disasters often require mental health interventions with people from a multitude of ethnic groups, religions, and nationalities. Within the United States, those who care for the victims of trauma often assist individuals from a variety of immigrant cultures. Moreover, ...
Loss of the Assumptive World: A Theory of Traumatic Loss
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeffrey Kauffman
June 09, 2014
The assumptive world concept is a psychological principle of the conservation of human reality or "culture" - it is a lens for seeing the psychological disturbances that occur in times of change. In this collection, the authors examine the assumptive world from diverse theoretical perspectives, ...
Beyond Invisible Walls: The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacob D. Lindy, Robert Jay Lifton
March 19, 2014
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Westerners watched those who had survived the era of Soviet trauma emerge into what we hoped would be the exhilarating light of freedom. What we have witnessed, however, is a slow and painful process of progression and regression, of hope and disillusionment, of ...
What Forever Means After the Death of a Child: Transcending the Trauma, Living with the Loss
1st Edition
By Kay Talbot
March 15, 2002
List of Tables. List of Figures. Series Editor's Foreword. Preface. Prologue. Acknowledgements. What It Means to Be a Parent After a Child Had Died. The "Mothers Now Childless" Study: Research Design and Findings. When a Child Dies, Does Grieving Ever End? One Death - A Thousand Strands of Pain: ...
Wrapped in Mourning: The Gift of Life and Donor Family Trauma
1st Edition
By Sue Holtkamp
December 14, 2001
Based on 15 years of experience working with organ procurement organizations and donor families, Wrapped in Mourning addresses the heretofore unexplored subject of organ donor family trauma. This book covers the issues surrounding organ donation, including the history of organ transplantation, how ...
Traumatic Grief: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention
1st Edition
By Selby Jacobs
March 01, 1999
The loss of a family member, significant other, or friend exposes the afflicted person to a higher risk for several types of psychiatric disorders. In addition to the potential complications that include major depression, anxiety, and PTSD, there is much current (and renewed) interest in ...
Trauma and Fulfillment Therapy: A Wholist Framework: Pathways to Fulfillment
1st Edition
By Paul Valent
December 01, 1998
Trauma results in a wide variety of human unhappiness. In parallel, treatment of the consequences of trauma ranges from drugs, to single session psychological techniques, to management and cognitive therapies, to psychotherapies which take years. Some therapies deal with individuals, others with ...
Traumatology of grieving: Conceptual, theoretical, and treatment foundations
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles R. Figley
December 01, 1998
First published in 1999. Those grieving the loss of a loved one who has died under traumatic circumstances form a special group of mourners. Separate from those going through "simple bereavement", these mourners must cope with a double-edged sword: the grief of the loss and the trauma of the ...