Mapping Trauma and Its Wake
Mapping Trauma and Its Wake

Author: Charles R. Figley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-12-11

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1136770119

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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, what each feels are his or her greatest achievements, and where the discipline might - and should - go from here. This impressive collection of essays by internationally-renowned specialists is destined to become a classic of traumatology literature. It is a text that will provide future mental health professionals with a window into the early years of this rapidly expanding field.

Trauma And Its Wake
Trauma And Its Wake

Author: Charles R. Figley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-20

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 113484378X

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Published in the year 1985, Trauma and its Wake is a valuable contribution to the field of Counseling and School Psychology.

War Trauma and Its Wake
War Trauma and Its Wake

Author: Raymond M. Scurfield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0415506824

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War Trauma and Its Wake a vital book for anyone interested in understanding the military experience, and the lessons contained in its pages are crucial for any clinician committed to healing war trauma.

Healing War Trauma
Healing War Trauma

Author: Raymond M. Scurfield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0415807050

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For those veterans who do not respond productively to, or who have little interest in office-based, regimented, and symptom-focused treatments, the innovative approaches laid out in Healing War Trauma is the guidebook clinicians need to chart new paths to healing.

Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health
Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health

Author: Gertie Quitangon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-11

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1317644905

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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 imperative. This book explores vicarious traumatization in mental health providers who respond to massive disasters by choice or by circumstance. What happens when clinicians share the trauma and vulnerability from the toll taken by a disaster with the victims they care for? How can clinicians increase resilience from disaster exposure and provide mental health services effectively? Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health offers insight and analysis of the research and theory behind vicarious trauma and compares and contrasts with other work-impact concepts such as burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress. It proposes practical evidence-informed personal strategies and organizational approaches that address five cognitive schemas (safety, esteem, trust, control and intimacy) disrupted in vicarious trauma. With an emphasis on the psychological health and safety of mental health providers in the post-disaster workplace, this book represents a shift in perspective and provides a framework for the promotion of worker resilience in the standard of practice in disaster management.

When the Past Is Always Present
When the Past Is Always Present

Author: Ronald A. Ruden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-01-19

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1135271763

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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 psychosensory therapy, forms what the author considers the "third pillar" of trauma treatment (the first and second pillars being psychotherapy and psychopharmacology). Psychosensory therapy postulates that sensory input—for example, touch—creates extrasensory activity that alters brain function and the way we respond to stimuli. The second idea presented in this book is that traumatization is encoded in the amygdala only under special circumstances. Thus, by understanding what makes an individual resistant to traumatization we can offer a way of preventing it. The third idea is that traumatization occurs because we cannot find a haven during the event. This is the cornerstone of havening, the particular form of psychosensory therapy described in the book. Using evolutionary biological principles and recently published neuroscientific studies, this book outlines in detail how havening touch de-links the emotional experience from a trauma, essentially making it just an ordinary memory. Once done, the event no longer causes distress.

Helping Traumatized Families
Helping Traumatized Families

Author: Charles R. Figley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-07

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1136700579

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The new edition of the classic Helping Traumatized Families not only offers clinicians a unified, evidence-based theory of the systemic impact of traumatic stress—it also details a systematic approach to helping families heal by promoting their natural healing resources. Though the impact of trauma on a family can be growth producing, some families either struggle or fail to adapt successfully. Helping Traumatized Families guides practitioners around common pitfalls and toward a series of evidence-based strategies that they can use to help families feel empowered and ultimately to thrive by developing tools for enhancing resilience and self-regulation.

School Rampage Shootings and Other Youth Disturbances
School Rampage Shootings and Other Youth Disturbances

Author: Kathleen Nader

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-19

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1136997687

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School Rampage Shootings and Other Youth Disturbances creates a framework for understanding and preventing the likelihood of rampage violence, related forms of school-based aggression, and other internalizing and externalizing problems and disorders. The materials on the downloadable resources lay out exercises and targeted tactics that

Combat Stress Injury
Combat Stress Injury

Author: Charles R. Figley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-02-14

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 113591933X

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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 / nonmilitary, American / international, combat veterans / trainers, and as diverse as psychiatrists / psychologists / social workers / nurses / clergy / physiologists / military scientists). The chapters in this volume collectively demonstrate that combat stress can effectively be managed through prevention and training prior to combat, stress reduction methods during operations, and desensitization programs immediately following combat exposure.