326 Pages
by CRC Press

326 Pages
by CRC Press

326 Pages
by CRC Press

This book provides a state-of-the-art guide to the rapidly growing field of traumatic stress. It reviews and integrates the many scientific findings from psychology, psychiatry and sociology into an encompassing model. This general model is applicable to the reactions to war stress, disaster, violence, accidents and bereavement. Topics such as normal and disturbed coping patterns, social support... Read more

PART I. Introduction and Concepts
1. Traumatic stress
2. General concepts

PART II. Traumatic Events
3. War
4. Disaster
5. Violence
6. Concentration camps
7. Loss

PART III. General Theory
8. Coping with trauma
9. Determinants of trauma and coping

PART IV. Intervention
10. Prevention
11. Behavior therapy
12 Short-term psychodynamic therapy
13. Hypnotherapy
14. The effects of brief psychotherapy

Epilogue
15. Trauma in perspective

References

Index
I Names
II Subjects

Biography

Rolf J. Kleber is a social and cross-cultural psychologist. He is a senior researcher at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, and head of the research unit of the Institute for Psychotrauma.

Danny Brom is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. He was the first Director of the Institute for Psychotrauma, The Netherlands, and is presently working at Ezrath Nashim Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel.

Peter B. Defares, a social psychologist and psychotherapist, is Professor in Psychology of Stress at the University of Amsterdam.