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»Eine neue, aufschlussreiche Perspektive auf Trauma« - Ein komplett neuer Ansatz basierend auf 30 Jahren Forschungsarbeit - Mit zahlreichen Fallgeschichten Wenn uns das Schlimmste widerfährt, was man sich vorstellen kann – gewalttätige oder lebensbedrohliche Ereignisse oder andere schwerwiegende Widrigkeiten – erwarten wir in der Regel, dass wir traumatisiert werden und wahrscheinlich eine posttraumatische Belastungsstörung entwickeln. Aber wie hoch ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass dies tatsächlich eintritt? Auf der Grundlage von drei Jahrzehnten Forschung und anhand zahlreicher Beispiele belegt George A. Bonanno eindrucksvoll seine These, dass die natürliche Reaktion auf traumatische Erfahrungen vielmehr Resilienz und nur in wenigen Fällen wirklich eine PTBS ist. Er zeigt, was uns widerstandsfähig macht, warum wir es manchmal nicht sind und wie wir zukünftig besser mit traumatischem Stress umgehen können. Ein Buch für alle, die das Thema Trauma aus einem neuen Blickwinkel betrachten möchten.

Collective Trauma, Collective Healing is a guide for mental health professionals working in response to large-scale political violence or natural disaster. It provides a framework that practitioners can use to develop their own community-based, collective approach to treating trauma and providing clinical services that are both culturally and contextually appropriate. The classic edition includes a new preface from the author reflecting on changes to the field and the world since the book's initial publication.The book draws on experience working with survivors, their families, and communities in the Holocaust, post-war Kosovo, the Liberian civil wars, and post-9/11 Lower Manhattan. It tracks the development of community programs and projects based on a family and community resilience approach, including those that enhance the collective capacities for narration and public conversation.Clinicians and community practitioners will come away from Collective Trauma, Collective Healing with a solid understanding of new roles they may play in disasters—roles that encourage them to recognize and enhance the resilience and coping skills in families, organizations, and the community at large.

The experience of traumatic events is a near-universal, albeit unfortunate, part of the human experience. Given how many individuals are exposed to trauma, it is interesting to question why some individuals are resilient in the face of trauma while others go on to develop chronic post-traumatic stress. Throughout the relatively brief history of the psychological study of trauma, a number of themes have consistently emerged; many of these themes remain essential elements within our current study of traumatic stress disorders, as summarized within this volume. The Oxford Handbook of Traumatic Stress Disorders addresses the current landscape of research and clinical knowledge surrounding traumatic stress disorders. Bringing together a group of highly-regarded experts, this volume is divided into six sections, together summarizing the current state of knowledge about 1) classification and phenomenology, 2) epidemiology and special populations, 3) contributions from theory, 4) assessment, 5) prevention and early intervention efforts, and 6) treatment of individuals with post-trauma mental health symptoms. Throughout the volume, attention is paid to identifying current controversies in the literature and highlighting directions that hold promise for future work. In this new second edition, experts on traumatic stress contribute chapters on topics spanning classification, epidemiology and special populations, theory, assessment, prevention/early intervention, treatment, and dissemination and treatment. This expanded, updated volume provides research updates and highlights areas that need continued clarification through additional research. With new chapters on adverse childhood experiences, suicide following the experience of trauma, and evidence-based treatments, the second edition provides an up-to-date and valuable resource for clinicians and investigators with interest in traumatic stress disorders.

Experiences of violence, sexual abuse, accidents, disasters or deaths of close relatives or friends, and other extreme situations can lead to trauma-related disorders. Since 2018, the World Health Organization has distinguished four such disorders in its classification list:'classic'and complex post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as prolonged grief disorder and adjustment disorder. These long-term effects are described in detail in the book. In recent years, a variety of interventions have been developed to effectively treat these disorders. This 5th edition has been largely reorganized due to the groundbreaking innovations in which the editor played a decisive role on an international level. Among the innovations are the chapters on: - Complex post-traumatic stress disorder - Childhood violence and its consequences - Low-threshold and innovative interventions - Methods of cognitivebehavioral therapy - Psychodynamic approaches The handbook on psychological trauma-related disorders.

Jene, die der Shoah entkamen, litten oft lebenslang unter schwerwiegenden Auswirkungen ihrer grauenvollen Erfahrungen. Die sogenannten »Child Survivors«, überlebende Kinder und Jugendliche, bedurften aufgrund der über einen langen Zeitraum hinweg erlittenen Traumata besonderer Zuwendung und Unterstützung. Die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger nehmen Lebenswege von »Child Survivors« und die gesellschaftliche Wahrnehmung ihrer belastenden Langzeiterfahrungen sowie den Wandel der bundesdeutschen Entschädigungspraxis in den Blick. Sie betrachten Forschungen Hans Keilsons und die grundlegende Arbeit des Kinder- und Jugendpsychiaters Reinhart G.E. Lempp sowie deren aktuelle Weiterentwicklung. Die interdisziplinäre Herangehensweise eröffnet neue Anschlussmöglichkeiten für die Traumaforschung. Vor dem Hintergrund historischer Zusammenhänge und aktueller Entwicklungen in der Migrationsgesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts wird gezeigt, dass stabilen Bindungen und Halt vermittelnden Umgebungen eine kaum zu überschätzende Bedeutung für den weiteren Lebensweg Traumatisierter zukommt. Mit Beiträgen von Werner Bohleber, Gudrun Brockhaus, Reinmar du Bois, Heide Glaesmer, Katja Happe, Christine Kausch, Ulrich Lamparter, Cordula Lissner, Yuriy Nesterko, Isabel Piesker, Barbara Stambolis und Gabriele Teckentrup

Authored by “the” foremost expert on providing EMDR therapy to the military/veteran population!Based on the profound expertise of the author—an EMDR therapist, consultant, and trainer who brings 33 years of military experience to his therapeutic work—this is a “how-to” manual on the unique treatment needs of active duty and veteran populations and how to help them using EMDR therapy. Following an examination of the defining characteristics and philosophy of military culture as they bear on effective therapeutic treatment, the book comprehensively applies the EMDR model to the active military/veteran population with a variety of presenting issues.Considering the clinical challenges of treating a population with repeated exposure to life-threatening experiences, moral injury, sexual assault, and other potentially debilitating trauma, the book addresses skill development, specific to EMDR treatment in detail. This go-to manual covers all the steps and processes of EMDR treatment from introducing EMDR therapy to the client to developing a sense of safety in the treatment arena. Allowing therapists trained in EMDR therapy to appropriately assess and address the clinical needs of the veteran by treating clients with both PTSD and traumatic brain injury; along with moral injury, military sexual trauma (MST), or suicidal ideation by recognizing and addressing avoidance and building motivation for treatment and treatment pitfalls. Case examples address clinical “stuck” points and a variety of treatment options when addressing a broad range of symptoms. The EMDR AIP model is incorporated into each case illustrating the veteran's treatment goal, presenting symptoms, targeted memories, and clinical decision points in treatment. The print version of the book is also available in ebook format.Key Features:Addresses step-by-step EMDR skill development specific to this populationIncorporates the EMDR eight-phase approachDelivers abundant case examples enhanced with clinical treatment optionsIncludes a paradigm for evaluating the military and veteran's initial clinical presentationDiscusses treatment for clients with PTSD, traumatic brain injury, moral injury, sexual trauma, and suicidal ideationConsiders the treatment needs of the military family· Includes a variety of helpful patient handouts

- Das überarbeitete Manual reagiert auf neue theoretische und praktische Erkenntnisse - Ansatz ist unter den psychotraumatologischen Verfahren sehr gut etabliert - Renommierte und bekannte Autorin Die elfte Auflage des erfolgreichen psychotraumatologischen Grundlagenwerks erscheint in vollständig überarbeiteter Form und entspricht damit den aktuellen theoretischen und praktischen Erkenntnissen der Autorin. Mitgefühlsund Ressourcenorientierung gehörte von Anfang an zur spezifischen Herangehensweise der Psychodynamisch Imaginativen Traumatherapie, doch wird diesen, von Luise Reddemann immer wichtiger eingeschätzten Säulen der Behandlung nun wesentlich mehr Raum gegeben. In nahezu allen Behandlungsschritten finden sich neue Akzentsetzungen zur Arbeit mit einer von Mitgefühl getragenen Beziehungsgestaltung und Ressourcenorientierung neben der Konfrontation mit dem Leidvollen. Gerade komplex traumatisierten Patientinnen und Patienten kann mit dieser respektvollen und Zuversicht vermittelnden Herangehensweise bei der Überwindung ihrer traumabedingten Störungen geholfen werden. Dieses Buch richtet sich an: - PsychotherapeutInnen aller Schulen - TraumatherapeutInnen

PTSD is in no way an easy diagnosis for the patient, the provider, or the therapist. It is a diagnosis developed at the border of our capacity to handle extreme stress, a marker diagnosis denoting the limits of our capacity for functioning in the stress of this modern world. For both individuals and society, PTSD marks the limits of our available compassion and our capacity to protect ourselves from the dangers of the environment and other humans. PTSD is often a chronic disease, forming at a place where mind sometimes no longer equals the brain, a point at which individual patient requirements often trump theory and belief. There are treatments for PTSD that work, and many that do not. This book presents evidence, rather than theory, anecdote, or case report. Psychological approaches including prolonged exposure, imagery rehearsal therapy and EMDR have a greater than 75% positive short-term response when used to treat PTSD. Yet these treatments vary markedlyand have different, even contradictory underlying theory and objectives for treatment. Medications, rarely indicated as primary therapy, can be used to treat symptoms and address comorbid PTSD diagnoses. Treatment of sleep apnea in the PTSD population produces a positive effect on symptoms and a reduction in morbidity and mortality across the span of life. Complementary treatments offer the many individuals chronically affected by PTSD assistance in coping with symptoms and opportunities to attempt to functionally integrate their experience of trauma.

- Relevant: Häufige Störung nach Gewalterfahrung in der Kindheit - Praxisnah: Manual für den Praxisalltag - Autoren: Renommierte Fachexperten - Aktuell: An der neuen ICD-11-Klassifikation orientiert Traumatisierungen in Form physischer, sexueller oder emotionaler Gewalt in der Kindheit und Jugend bilden den Hintergrund des in der ICD-11 neu definierten Störungsbildes der komplexen posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung (kPTBS). Bei einer Vorgeschichte von Kindheitstraumatisierungen weist das Störungsbild der PTBS Besonderheiten auf: Die Pathogenese ist komplexer und die Symptomatik breiter als nach Traumatisierungen im Erwachsenenalter, es besteht häufig eine hohe Komorbidität, dies stellt besondere Anforderungen an die Therapie. Die in diesem Manual vorgestellte Konzeption folgt einem Verständnis psychodynamischer Behandlung als einem ressourcenbasierten integrativen Verfahren, wie es durch die tiefenpsychologisch fundierte Psychotherapie vermittelt wird. - Relevant: Häufige Störung nach Gewalterfahrung in der Kindheit - Praxisnah: Manual für den Praxisalltag - Autoren: Renommierte Fachexperten - Aktuell: An der neuen ICD-11-Klassifikation orientiert Dieses Buch richtet sich an: - Ärztliche und psychologische (psychodynamische orientierte) PsychotherapeutInnen - TraumatherapeutInnen

Die S3-Leitlinie „Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung“ (PTBS) wurde in ihrer aktualisierten Version von 2019 von zahlreichen Fachgesellschaften unter der Federführung der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Psychotraumatologie (DeGPT) erarbeitet. Sie enthält gegenüber der Vorversion verschiedene Neuerungen: Aufgrund der Einführung der Diagnose „Komplexe PTBS“ in ICD-11 widmet sich ein neues Kapitel der Behandlung dieser Störung. Auch den neuen Befunden zur Behandlung der PTBS bei Betroffenen mit anderen psychischen Diagnosen wird in einem eigenen Kapitel Rechnung getragen. Darüber hinaus wurde ein eigener Teil der Leitlinie zur „Diagnostik und Behandlung der Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung bei Kindern- und Jugendlichen“ aufgenommen, der auf spezifische Fragestellungen bei der Behandlung von Kindern und Jugendlichen eingeht. Die S3-Leitlinie „Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung“ ist damit noch umfassender geworden und gibt allen Berufsgruppen Empfehlungen an dieHand, die in die Betreuung von Patienten mit Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörungen eingebunden sind.

El trauma es la causa principal de los problemas de salud, tanto psicológicos como físicos. La energía y el contenido del trauma se transmiten a través de la relación maternofilial, esto es, los traumas familiares son absorbidos por la psique de los niños generación tras generación. Esta nueva comprensión de la psique y del trauma permite aplicar un enfoque terapéutico diferente: la psicotraumatología multigeneracional. Esta se opone a un tratamiento exclusivamente farmacológico y se basa en una nueva teoría explicativa y una nueva técnica psicoterapéutica para tratar las denominadas enfermedades psíquicas.

The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working With Trauma is an invaluable and cutting edge resource providing the current theory, practice, and research on trauma and dissociation within psychoanalysis. Elizabeth Howell and Sheldon Itzkowitz bring together experts in the field of dissociation and psychoanalysis, providing a comprehensive and forward-looking overview of the current thinking on trauma and dissociation. The volume contains articles on the history of concepts of trauma and dissociation, the linkage of complex trauma and dissociative problems in living, different modalities of treatment and theoretical approaches based on a new understanding of this linkage, as well as reviews of important new research. Overarching all of these is a clear explanation of how pathological dissociation is caused by trauma, and how this affects psychological organization -- concepts which have often been largely misunderstood. The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists, trauma therapists, and students.

This unique resource provides findings and insights regarding the multiple impacts of military duty on service members and veterans, specifically from a family standpoint. Broad areas of coverage include marital and family relationships, parenting issues, family effects of war injuries, and family concerns of single service members. The book's diverse contents highlight understudied populations and topics gaining wider interest while examining the immediate and long-term impact of service on family functioning. In addition to raising awareness of issues, chapters point to potential solutions including science-based pre- and post-deployment programs, more responsive training for practitioners, and more focused research and policy directions. Among the topics covered: • Deployment and divorce: an in-depth analysis by relevant demographic and military characteristics. • Military couples and posttraumatic stress: interpersonally based behaviors and cognitions as mechanisms of individual and couple distress. • Warfare and parent care: armed conflict and the social logic of child and national protection. • Understanding the experiences of women and LGBT veterans in Department of Veterans Affairs care. • Risk and resilience factors in combat military health care providers. • Tangible, instrumental, and emotional support among homeless veterans. War and Family Life offers up-to-date understanding for mental health professionals who serve military families, both in the U.S. and abroad.

This book takes a case-based approach to addressing the challenges psychiatrists and other clinicians face when working with American combat veterans after their return from a war zone. Written by experts, the book concentrates on a wide variety of concerns associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including different treatments of PTSD. The text also looks at PTSD comorbidities, such as depression and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other conditions masquerading as PTSD. Finally, the authors touch on other subjects concerning returning veterans, including pain, disability, facing the end of a career, sleep problems, suicidal thoughts, violence,, and mefloquine “toxidrome”. Each case study includes a case presentation, diagnosis and assessment, treatment and management, outcome and case resolution, and clinical pearls and pitfalls.Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Related Diseases in Combat Veterans is a valuable resource for civilian and military mental health practitioners, and primary care physicians on how to treat patients returning from active war zones.

Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle Fachkräfte, die nach einem Großschadensfall an Ort und Stelle sind und neben den offensichtlichen ersten Hilfeleistungen, mit Opfern, Zeugen und Angehörigen konfrontiert werden. Neben den theoretischen Grundlagen der notfallpsychologischen Versorgung, wird detailliert auf Planung und Umsetzung eingegangen. Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele unterstreichen die Praxistauglichkeit für Angehörige des Rettungspersonals und hinzugezogene Notfallpsychologen oder Seelsorger.

Designed for psychotherapists and their clients, Peter Levine's latest best-seller continues his groundbreaking exploration of the central role of the body in processing—and healing—trauma.With foreword by Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the ScoreIn Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist that we absolutely must rely on memory to make sense of past experience. Building on his 45 years of successful treatment of trauma and utilizing case studies from his own practice, Dr. Levine suggests that there are elements of truth in both camps. While acknowledging that memory can be trusted, he argues that the only truly useful memories are those that might initially seem to be the least reliable: memories stored in the body and not necessarily accessible by our conscious mind. While much work has been done in the field of trauma studies to address'explicit'traumatic memories in the brain (such as intrusive thoughts or flashbacks), much less attention has been paid to how the body itself stores'implicit'memory, and how much of what we think of as'memory'actually comes to us through our (often unconsciously accessed) felt sense. By learning how to better understand this complex interplay of past and present, brain and body, we can adjust our relationship to past trauma and move into a more balanced, relaxed state of being. Written for trauma sufferers as well as mental health care practitioners, Trauma and Memory is a groundbreaking look at how memory is constructed and how influential memories are on our present state of being.

This book has been replaced by Handbook of PTSD, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4707-4.

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 with traditional PTSD symptoms? The mechanisms of human behavior need to be understood and treatment needs to be tested before we can move beyond traditional diagnostic criteria in designing and implementing treatment. No better guide than Retraumatization exists to fulfill these goals. The editors and contributors, all highly regarded experts, accomplish six objectives, to: define retraumatization outline the controversies related to it provide an overview of theoretical models present data related to the frequency of occurrence of different forms of trauma detail the most reliable strategies for assessment to provide an overview of treatments. Contained within is the most current information on prevention and treatment approaches for specific populations. All chapters are uniformly structured and address epidemiological data, clinical descriptions, assessment, diagnosis and prognosis, and prevention. It is an indispensible resource that expands readers'knowledge and skills, and will encourage dialogue in a field that has many unanswered questions.

The first edition of this now classic work provided the basis for adding post traumatic stress disorders to diagnoses of mental conditions. Each subsequent edition added new understanding, summaries of empirical new research, and new guides for clinicians. The thoroughly revised fifth edition adheres to changes that will be made in DSM-5 and gives the reasons for symptom formation and how treatment can not only resolve symptoms but encourage post-traumatic growth that leads to a more coherent sense of identity and renewed capacities for connecting compassionately with others. Stress Response Syndromes takes the reader from surface to depth with many lucid case examples and how-to advice for both trainees and experienced clinicians.

Beating Combat Stress is a one-stop handbook of field-tested techniques and strategies to help service personnel, veterans and professionals to deal with the psychological effects of combat. Features 101 field-tested techniques and strategies for managing combat-related stress Designed to be accessible and useful both to serving personnel and veterans, and to the professionals and volunteers who are engaged in helping them Takes a solution-focused approach to dealing with combat-related problems, promoting simplicity and proven techniques over complex theories and psychological jargon User-friendly style and layout, with specially-commissioned illustrations throughout

Beziehungsverhalten von Menschen mit Borderline-Syndrom ist für Betroffene, Angehörige, Freunde, Therapeuten und Menschen aus dem Pflege- und Sozialbereich oft eine große Herausforderung. Fundiertes Wissen um das Störungsbild und das daraus resultierende Verständnis sowie sinnvolle Kommunikation und achtsamer Umgang mit sich selbst können in einer Borderline-Beziehung eine große Hilfe sein. Die Autorinnen bieten einen Überblick über das Störungsbild, Entstehung, neurobiologische und pharmakotherapeutische Grundlagen sowie Therapiemöglichkeiten und stellen Problemverhalten, dysfunktionale Schemata, Beziehungsfallen, Emotions- und Bindungstheorien dar. Lösungsansätze sowie Übungsbeispiele ergänzen dieses Wissen, dabei wird auf praktische Umsetzbarkeit Wert gelegt. Texte von Angehörigen, Professionisten und Literaturstellen lockern die Theorie auf. Das Buch ist ein wertvoller Begleiter für alle, die sich mit diesen Themen befassen und persönlich oder beruflich Kontakt zu Borderline-Persönlichkeiten haben.

The Art of Investigative Psychodynamic Therapy is designed to train substance abuse professionals in an innovative and successful treatment methodology.. The Gerwe Orchestration Method addresses pivotal developmental issues in relation to chronic addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other co-occurring disorders in detail. This manual provides the background information and the tools and templates for conducting group sessions.

Gewalterfahrungen, schwere Unfälle, Katastrophen oder Todesfälle im nahen Umfeld - extreme Situationen können zu einer posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung führen. Darunter werden unterschiedliche psychische und psychosomatische Symptome zusammengefasst, die als Langzeitfolgen auch noch Jahre nach dem belastenden Erlebnis auftauchen können. Durch eine frühzeitige psychotherapeutische Intervention kann der Entwicklung eines PTSD entgegengewirkt werden. Die Neuauflage der'Therapie der Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörungen'wurde umfassend überarbeitet und erweitert. Die dritte Auflage sieht sich nicht mehr nur als Therapiebuch, sondern als DAS Handbuch zur Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung. Was ist neu? Ausführlicher Grundlagenteil mit einer Vielzahl neuer Kapitel; Aktualisierter Therapieteil mit Schwerpunkt auf ausführlicher Darstellung der psychotherapeutischen Intervention; PTSD bei spezifischen Gruppen oder spezifischen Problemstellungen. Vom Therapiebuch zum Handbuch - hier finden Sie jetzt ganz aktuell alle Aspekte rund um die posttraumatischen Belastungsstörungen.

Recent advances in trauma treatment, coupled with ongoing traumatic world events, point to a critical need for global standards in assessment. But despite the best intentions of Western psychology, one model does not fit all cultures. Cross-Cultural Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD addresses key issues in the field to help fill this knowledge gap. Focusing equally on theoretical concepts, culturally valid assessment methods, and cultural adaptation in trauma and resilience, 29 experts present the cutting edge of research and strategies. Extended case examples (including West Africans in Austria, Hmong in the U.S., and Aboriginal people in Australia) illustrate an informative range of symptom profiles, comorbid conditions, and coping skills, as well as secondary traumas that can occur in asylum seekers. Professional concerns are also highlighted, from training and competency issues to the challenges of translating assessment into treatment.

A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions provides trauma counselors with effective guidelines that enhance skills and improve expertise in conducting empowering therapeutic interventions. Taking a practitioner's perspective, author Priscilla Dass-Brailsford focuses on practical application and skill building in an effort to understand the impact of extreme stress and violence on the human psyche. Key Features: Offers comprehensive coverage of trauma intervention: The wide coverage of the different levels of trauma— individual, community, institutional—and attention to the current theoretical and research literature makes this text the most comprehensive regarding trauma and its treatment. Highlights the intersection between trauma and culture: An ecological perspective focuses on the importance of viewing behavior within its social setting and examining the physical and psychosocial barriers to trauma recovery. Emphasizes the theme of'empowerment': Empowerment focuses on client strengths as the practitioner is encouraged to support clients towards resiliency. Provides an extensive historical background: The book examines multigenerational trauma experienced by several ethnic minority groups. Includes case studies and worksheets: Case studies gleaned from the author's clinical experience provide a snapshot of the field and make the work of trauma come alive. Intended Audience: This is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on psychological trauma in the departments of Counseling, Psychology, Human Services, and Social Work. It is also a useful resource for practicing clinicians.

Counselling for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Third Edition addresses the specifics of counselling clients who have suffered major trauma, whether recently or in the past, and includes 18 detailed case examples together with transcripts of sessions. The authors′ cognitive contextual approach translates the psychobiology of trauma responses into clinically useful analogies and simple drawings that guide the therapist and client. The book is unique in covering the diagnosis and treatment of the full spectrum of post-traumatic states. In this fully updated Third Edition the needs of special populations - children/adolescents, refugees and those in pain - are also addressed. Additional material includes a new PTSD screening inventory and a counselling competence scale. Counselling for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Third Edition is an invaluable, comprehensive aid for both the experienced and novice therapist working with trauma victims. Michael J. Scott is a Consultant Psychologist and External Examiner for the MSc Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapies Programme at the University of Chester. Stephen G. Stradling is Professor of Transport Psychology at Napier University.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder remains one of the most contentious and poorly understood psychiatric disorders. Evolution and Posttraumatic Stress provides a valuable new perspective on its nature and causes.This book is the first to examine PTSD from an evolutionary perspective. Beginning with a review of conventional theories, Chris Cantor provides a clear and succinct overview of the history, clinical features and epidemiology of PTSD before going on to introduce and integrate evolutionary theory. Subjects discussed include:The evolution of human defensive behaviours A clinical perspective of PTSD Defence in overdrive: evolution, PTSD and parsimony This original presentation of PTSD as a defensive strategy describes how the use of evolutionary theory provides a more coherent and successful model for diagnosis, greatly improving understanding of usually mystifying symptoms. It will be of great interest to psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists, and anthropologists.

Fostered and adopted children can present major challenges resulting from unresolved attachment issues and early traumatic experiences. This book provides a variety of complementary perspectives on the needs of these children and their families, focusing on ways of integrating attachment theory and developmental psychology into effective practice.

An original and groundbreaking examination of the psychological devastation of war through the lens of Homer's Iliad in this “compassionate book [that] deserves a place in the lasting literature of the Vietnam War” (The New York Times).In this moving and dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Jonathan Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer's Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. A classic of war literature that has as much relevance as ever in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Achilles in Vietnam is a “transcendent literary adventure” (The New York Times) and “clearly one of the most original and most important scholarly works to have emerged from the Vietnam War” (Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried). As a Veterans Affairs psychiatrist, Shay encountered devastating stories of unhealed PTSD and uncovered the painful paradox—that fighting for one's country can render one unfit to be a citizen. With a sensitive and compassionate examination of the battles many Vietnam veterans continue to fight, Shay offers readers a greater understanding of PTSD and how to alleviate the potential suffering of soldiers. Although the Iliad was written twenty-seven centuries ago, Shay shows how it has much to teach about combat trauma, as do the more recent, compelling voices and experiences of Vietnam vets. A groundbreaking and provocative monograph, Achilles in Vietnam takes readers on a literary journey that demonstrates how we can learn how war damages the mind and spirit, and work to change those things in our culture that so that we don't continue repeating the same mistakes.

Trauma suffered during childhood can affect not only a person's emotional and mental health, but also their physical health, even into adulthood. This unique book fills a gap in research in this area, providing personal and theoretical perspectives on trauma and recovery.

Drawing on research from a variety of domains - clinical studies of trauma, developmental psychopathology, interpersonal psychobiology, epidemiology, and social policy - September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds addresses especially the fundamental relationship of human bonds to trauma and underscores the manner in which developments in all these fields are coming together in complementary ways that sustain a key finding: that trauma must be understood in its relational and attachment contexts. The quality of early emotional attachments, differences in attachment styles to family milieus, and the psychological qualities that enable traumatized parents to avoid traumatizing their children are among the topics through which these contexts are explored. From their various disciplinary vantage points, the contributions converge to show how human relationships can either provide an anodyne to trauma or serve as the vehicle of its transmission.As Susan Coates observes, a major legacy of 9/11 is the realization that'there are no simple truths in the world of trauma studies, no easy-to-remember anodynes or pharmacologic magic bullets or depth-psychological schematizations that will hold true for a majority or even a sizable minority of cases.'Yet, in delineating the multiple connections between human relations and trauma, and in elaborating these connections from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to September 11 have taken a decisive first step to consolidate new knowledge about trauma and to demonstrate how it can assist clinicians who encounter diverse responses to trauma in their day-to-day work. A sobering reminder of shared human vulnerability in the face of devastating events, September 11 is also a heartening reminder of resiliency in the face of overwhelming loss and of the healing potential of human connection.

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, providing the reader with an array of different viewpoints illuminating the concept and its clinical usefulness.

This volume provides the definitive guide to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), the psychotherapeutic approach developed by Francine Shapiro. EMDR is one of the most widely investigated treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder, and many other applications are also being explored. Presenting background on EMDR's development, theoretical constructs, and possible underlying mechanisms, the volume also contains detailed descriptions and transcripts that guide the clinician through every stage of therapeutic treatment, from client selection to the administration of EMDR and its integration within a comprehensive treatment plan. Among the many clinical populations for whom the material in this volume has been seen as applicable are survivors of sexual abuse, crime, and combat, as well as sufferers of phobias and other experientially based disorders. Special feature: Two online-only appendices were added in 2009 (www.guilford.com/EMDR-appendices). These appendices comprehensively review current research on EMDR and its clinical applications. EMDR is now recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as an effective treatment for ameliorating symptoms of both acute and chronic PTSD (APA Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Patients with Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder). New to This Edition: •Updated neurobiological data, findings from controlled clinical studies, and literature on emerging clinical applications. •Updated protocols and procedures for working with adults and children with a range of presenting problems.

Children bereaved by the death of one parent at the hands of the other, almost always the father, in effect lose both parents, and are often forgotten in the midst of such dramatic situations. Reflecting the increased interest in child protection and child law systems, this second edition of When Father Kills Mother brings to public knowledge, in amplified form information about the effects of psychological trauma and bereavement on children. By combining knowledge about bereavement with that of post-traumatic stress disorder, the book remains informative and essential reading for all those involved in the field, both professionally and personally.

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 knowledge of how the loved one may have had to endure traumatic stress during their final minutes of life. This ground-breaking new addition to the Series in Trauma and Loss will enable mental health professionals to distinguish between those who are going through the'normal'grieving process in the aftermath of a traumatic event, and those who are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. A by-product of years of research and experience, this book helps buttress the theoretical bridge between thanatology and traumatology. This text focuses on the unique features of death-related PTSD, its assessment, and treatment. With case examples that draw upon consistent concepts and definitions, and equal attention to scholarly and practical concerns, the book argues that traumatic elements must be worked through first before grief and loss accommodations are achieved. More importantly, the new research and treatment methods presented by the leading experts in the field provide professionals and laymen alike with a valuable guide for understanding and helping those who grieve a loss under traumatic circumstances. Divided into two parts, Part 1: Conceptual and Empirical Foundations attempts to lay the empirical and theoretical foundation for the treatment chapters that follow. Part 2: Applications provides direction for helping clients grieve their traumatic losses

Can a newborn infant accurately record traumatic experience? Can early truamas be retained in memory? How would such traumatic memories affect later development? Where should we look for evidence of such traumas in adult patients?If Someone Speaks, It Gets Lighter provides surprising answers to these questions. Taking as her point of departure both her own clinical experience and case reports in the analytic literature, Lynda Share provides a thorough, at times revelatory, examination of the basic issues. She proposes that the controversy between narrative and historical truth be redefined in terms of the distinctly different memory systems involved and in terms of the special mechanisms whereby trauma, as opposed to ordinary expectable experience, becomes a major unconscious organizer of behavior and memory. Then, winding her way skillfully through contemporary debates about the limits of reconstruction, she argues persuasively that the impact of early infantile trauma can become accessible through disciplined analytic inquiry. Indeed, for Share, to forego the possibility of reconstructing such traumas in favor of an exclusively here-and-now interpretive approach is to risk perpetuating the trauma in all its pathogenicity. By contrast, when trauma can be reexperienced meaningfully in treatment, both behavioral reenactments and trauma-related transference issues can be dramatically clarified.Demonstrating her point with vivid clinical case reports, Share emphasizes the special value of dream interpretation in recovering the full psychological impact of events that occurred in the first few years of life. Through the imagistic dimension of dream formation, unconscious traumatic memories gain access to an expressive vehicle through which the patient, aided by the analyst's understanding, can begin to work through early experiences that have heretofore been dimly known but not felt.