Trauma Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Postwar Renoir

   Film and the Memory of Violence

   By Colin Davis

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This book re-assesses director Jean Renoir’s work between his departure from France in 1940 and his death in 1979, and contributes to the debate over how the medium of film registers the impact of trauma. The 1930s ended in catastrophe for both for Renoir and for France: La Règle du jeu was a...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Serving Military Families in the 21st Century

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

   Series: Textbooks in Family Studies

   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...

   Published April 1st 2012 by Routledge Academic
3. Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors

   A Clinician’s Guide

   By Lisa Ferentz

   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...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Compassion Fatigue Workbook

   Creative Tools for Transforming Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Traumatization

   By Françoise Mathieu

   Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

   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,...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
5. Transcending Trauma

   Survival, Resilience, and Clinical Implications in Survivor Families

   By Bea Hollander-Goldfein, Nancy Isserman, Jennifer Goldenberg

   Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

   Based on twenty years of intense qualitative research, Transcending Trauma presents an integrated model of coping and adaptation after trauma that incorporates the best of recent work in the field with the expanded insights offered by Holocaust survivors. In the book’s vignettes and interview...

   Published November 1st 2011 by Routledge
6. Trauma-Informed Practices With Children and Adolescents

   By William Steele, Cathy A. Malchiodi

   Trauma-Informed Practices With Children and Adolescents is a sourcebook of practical approaches to working with children and adolescents that synthesizes research from leading trauma specialists and translates it into easy-to-implement techniques. The approaches laid out address the sensory and...

   Published October 26th 2011 by Routledge
7. Retraumatization

   Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention

   Edited by Melanie P. Duckworth, Victoria M. Follette

   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...

   Published July 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents

   Theory and Clinical Interventions

   Edited by Sandra Wieland

   Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

   Over the last decade, the literature on therapy addressing trauma in children has expanded considerably, as has the literature on dissociation. Unfortunately, very little of this literature has addressed the issue of dissociation in children. At the same time, therapists working with children and...

   Published December 7th 2010 by Routledge
9. Families Under Fire

   Systemic Therapy With Military Families

   Edited by R. Blaine Everson, Charles R. Figley

   Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

   As provider networks on military bases are overwhelmed with new cases, civilian clinicians are increasingly likely to treat military families. However, these clinicians do not receive the same military mental-healthcare training as providers on military installations, adding strain to clinicians’...

   Published September 9th 2010 by Routledge
10. When the Past Is Always Present

    Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures

    By Ronald A. Ruden

    Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

    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...

    Published August 22nd 2010 by Routledge