SoPSS: Trauma and Disaster Relief

Shows how to use cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with the full spectrum of post-traumatic responses.

Presents cognitive and behavioral applications for understanding and treating trauma-related problems in virtually any clinical setting.

Maps out how to therapeutically treat sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using a cognitive behavioral approach to treatment.

Provides professionals with the skills needed to effectively assist survivors of disasters with healing, recovery, and resilience.

Examines the applicability of PTSD to other cultural contexts and details local responses to trauma and the extent they vary from PTSD as defined in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.

Presents step-by-step scripts that enable new practitioners and seasoned EMDR clinicians, trainers, and consultants alike to incorporate EMDR Therapy into their case conceptualizations and treatment plans when working with populations in the aftermath of such catastrophic events as earthquakes, mining accidents, tsunami, and ongoing warfare.

Provides trauma counselors with effective guidelines that enhance skills and improve expertise in conducting empowering therapeutic interventions.

Concise, current, and accessible overview of this critical issue, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), its causes, and its physical and mental consequences.

Presents complementary perspectives on resilience in a variety of socially adverse settings and how to assess resilience beyond the level of an individual.

Examines the 2001 World Trade Center attack from the perspectives of New York City mental health professionals who treated the psychologically wounded following the attack.

Comprehensive text on trauma, including such phenomena as sexual abuse, childhood trauma, PTSD, terrorism, natural disasters, cultural trauma, school shootings, and combat trauma.

Summarizes findings on trauma and PSTD in relation to three domains of outcomes: health status and disease, somatization, and utilization and cost.

Explores the underrecognized connection between trauma, substance use, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Examines several current clinical approaches to trauma- focused treatment with an emphasis on basic therapeutic skills such as empathic listening, instilling resilience, and creating meaning.