Synopses & Reviews
Trauma is now being recognized as a major mental health challenge, with clients from children to the elderly presenting symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, often with no awareness of the cause. Yet managed care--and the growing incidence of trauma patients, presenting increased demands on existing professionals--requires brief treatments whenever possible. This book explains how to apply brief, existing, generic treatments to help manage the traumatized and diminish or eliminate their traumatic symptoms.
Review
Brief Treatments for the Traumatized can be best viewed as an inital foray into expicating the ways that traumatized persons may be helped by conventional and nonconventional approaches to ameliorating the adverse effects of abuse, trauma, and violence. Its heuristic value rests in what it will spawn in the future.Contemporary Psychology
Synopsis
Focused, time-sensitive treatments for the traumatized are presented in this unique volume.
About the Author
CHARLES R. FIGLEY is Director of the Traumatology Institute and the College of Social Work at Florida State University.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Theoretical Overview
Theory-Informed Brief Treatments by Charles R. Figley
Behavioral/Cognitive Approaches to Post-Traumatic Stress: A Focus on Theory by Lizabeth Roemer, David S. Riggs, and Nicole T. Harrington
Active Ingredients in Trauma-Focused Brief Treatments by Anne Dietrich
Generic Treatments
Behavioral/Cognitive Approaches to Post-Traumatic Stress: Theory-Driven, Empirically Based Therapy by Lizabeth Roemer, Nicole T. Harrington, and David S. Riggs
The Use of Narrative Therpay with Couples Affected by Anxiety Disorders by Neil C. Headman
Using Thought Field Therapy (TFT) to Help Survivors of Destructive Cults by Monica Pignotti
Sensorimotor Approach to Processing Traumatic Memory by Pat Ogden and Kekuni Minton
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing in the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Louise Maxfield
Trauma-Focused Treatments
The Use of Multi-Sensory Trauma Processing to Treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Law Enforcement Officers by Nancy Davis
The Use of NLP and EFT with Divorcing Couples in Crisis by Jeanne M. Bertoli
A Brief Multiple Family Group Model for Juvenile First Offenders by William H. Quinn, David J. VanDyke, and Sean T. Kurth
Traumatic Incident Reduction Approach: Moving Beyond the Wreckage of Lives by Pamela Vest Valentine
Interventions for Couples with Acute Stress Reactions and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Victoria Tichenor, et al.
Crisis Debriefings for Emergencey Service Workers by Cheryl Regehr and John Hill
Rewind Technique by David Muss
Combined Reference List
Subject Index
Author Index