1st Edition

Family Stressors Interventions for Stress and Trauma

Edited By Don R. Catherall Copyright 2005
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

This book is aimed at practitioners working with couples and families dealing with the impact of a traumatic/stressful event, with chapters considering events such as the loss of a child, infertility in a couple, sexual abuse of a partner, traumatization of a parent, traumatization of a child, impact of a homicide, and the impact of health problems of aging parents. Therapists are continually... Read more
Gilbert, When Couples Lose a Child. Armour, When a Family Member is Murdered. Williams, When Children's Parents are Traumatized: The Din and the Dearth. Barnes, When a Child is Traumatized or Physically Injured: The Secondary Trauma of Parents. Courtois, When One Partner has Been Sexually Abused as a Child. Jessup, When a Couple Cannot Conceive: Traumatic Consequences of Infertility. Friedman, When Parents Age: Unique stressors of Adult Children. Catherall, When Terrorism Threatens Family Functioning.

Biography

Don R. Catherall, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Phoenix Institute, which specializes in the treatment of trauma disorders and relational problems; Clinical Associate Professor at Northwestern University Medical School; a member of the Editorial Advisory Group of the Journal of Traumatic Stress ; a member of the Editorial Boards of the electronic journal TRAUMATOLOGY , and the Taylor and Francis Book Series on Trauma and Loss ; and author of Back from the Brink: A Family Guide to Overcoming Traumatic Stress .