Bøger i Psychosocial Stress Series serien

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

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

Aimed at practitioners working with couples and families dealing with the impact of a traumatic/stressful event, this text provides a hands-on, practical guide that deals with how to respond appropriately to a wide range of specific stressors.

Families Under Fire is an indispensable guidebook designed for the broad spectrum of civilian mental health practitioners who provide professional services to military personnel, their spouses, and their family members.

Organized into three sections, this book focuses on the effects that trauma can have on the stages of attachment early in life, and the continuing psychological mechanisms that can perpetuate later life-span development. It addresses a variety of issues concerning the re-integration of personality following a traumatic experience.

This volume combines aspects of female development with empirical data from the fields of women's health, family violence and stress and coping. It aims to help sensitise care providers to the specific needs of women exposed to traumatic events.

Presents a collection of theory, research, and practice in the area of combat and operational stress management. This book demonstrates 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.

Encapsulates a variety of interventions designed to change, strengthen, or enhance a patient's thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in order to promote improved health and wellness. This work provides students and practitioners in a range of health care professions with a guide to understand the relationship between body and mind.

Talks about the theory and practice of clinical, spiritual, and emotional support after the experience of violent death. This book provides the theoretical and clinical bases necessary for planning and implementing clinical and spiritual services to meet the needs of survivors/witnesses/family and community members of violent death.

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.