Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry Arena

Advances in Social Work Practice with the Military

• Edited by Joan Beder.

Published April 2012

With the United States’ involvement in numerous combat operations overseas, the need for civilian social workers with the clinical skills necessary to work with members of the military returning from combat, as well as their families, has never been more critical. In this practical and important…
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Serving Military Families in the 21st Century

• By Karen Blaisure, Tara Saathoff-Wells, Angela Pereira, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth and Amy Laura Dombro.

Published April 2012

This text introduces readers to military families, their resilience, and the challenges of military life. Personal stories from active duty, National Guard, reservists, veterans, and their families, from all branches and ranks of the military, and those who work with military personnel, bring their…
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Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors

A Clinician’s Guide

• By Lisa Ferentz.

Published March 2012

This is a book for clinicians who specialize in helping trauma survivors and, through the course of treatment, find themselves unexpectedly confronted with client disclosures of self-destructive behaviors, including self-mutilation and other manifestations of deliberately "hurting the body" such as…
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The Compassion Fatigue Workbook

Creative Tools for Transforming Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Traumatization

• By Françoise Mathieu.

Published December 2011

The Compassion Fatigue Workbook is a lifeline for any helping professional facing the physical and emotional exhaustion that can shadow work in the helping professions. Since 2001 the activities in this Workbook have helped thousands of helpers in the fields of healthcare, community mental health,…
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Handbook of Counseling Military Couples

• Edited by Bret A. Moore.

Published December 2011

The military imposes unique and often severe challenges to couples, which clinicians – particularly the growing numbers of civilian clinicians who see military couples – often struggle to address. These problems are only compounded by misunderstandings and misconceptions about what it means to be…
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Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity

Working on Identity and Selves

• Edited by Valerie Sinason.

Published October 2011

Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity provides psychoanalytic insights into dissociation, in particular Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), and offers a variety of responses to the questions of self, identity and dissociation. With contributions from a range of clinicians from both America and…
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Retraumatization

Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention

• Edited by Melanie P. Duckworth, and Victoria M. Follette.

Published July 2011

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…
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Simply Effective Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

A Practitioner's Guide

• By Michael J. Scott.

Published June 2011

Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (GCBT) and guided self-help widen the availability of evidence-based treatment for common mental health disorders. This volume provides GCBT protocols for common disorders as well as session-by-session teaching materials and self-help survival manuals covering:…
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Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity

Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

• Edited by Valerie Sinason.

Published November 2010

This Revised Edition of Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity investigates the subject of Dissociative Identity Disorder. With brand new chapters on police work and attachment theory it has been fully updated to include new research and the latest understanding of patterns of attachment theory…
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Managing Trauma in the Workplace

Supporting Workers and Organisations

• Edited by Noreen Tehrani.

Published August 2010

Managing Trauma in the Workplace looks at the impact of trauma not only from the perspective of the employees but also from that of their organisations. In addition to describing the negative outcomes from traumatic exposure it offers solutions which will not only build a more resilient workforce…
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