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Psychosocial Stress Series


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The Psychosocial Stress Series includes books that make important contributions to theory, research, assessment, treatment, and policy on the causes and consquences of stress and trauma.

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Stress And The Family Coping With Catastrophe

Stress And The Family: Coping With Catastrophe

1st Edition

Edited By Charles R. Figley, Hamilton I. McCubbin
August 01, 1983

First Published in 1983. All families experience stress: the adjustment period when an infant is born; the many problems engendered by adolescents; role, dual-career, and work demands; environmental and societal problems; sexuality; divorce; marital tension; and the stress inherent in single ...

Mapping Trauma and Its Wake Autobiographic Essays by Pioneer Trauma Scholars

Mapping Trauma and Its Wake: Autobiographic Essays by Pioneer Trauma Scholars

1st Edition

Edited By Charles R. Figley
July 11, 2016

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. Each author discusses how he or she first got interested in the field,...

MindBody Medicine Foundations and Practical Applications

MindBody Medicine: Foundations and Practical Applications

1st Edition

By Leo W. Rotan, Veronika Ospina-Kammerer
November 27, 2015

MindBody Medicine 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. There has been a growing trend among professionals in the health care fields to better understand the...

Treating Stress In Families.........

Treating Stress In Families.........

1st Edition

By Charles Figley
October 06, 2015

Provides an overview of the causes and treatment approaches for counseling families under stress, and focuses on several examples of extreme tension....

The Compassion Fatigue Workbook Creative Tools for Transforming Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Traumatization

The Compassion Fatigue Workbook: Creative Tools for Transforming Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Traumatization

1st Edition

By Françoise Mathieu
December 20, 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, ...

Stress Disorders Among Vietnam Veterans: Theory, Research

Stress Disorders Among Vietnam Veterans: Theory, Research

1st Edition

By Charles R. Figley
August 19, 2015

First published in 1978. This book represents a unique accomplishment in pulling together in one place the broadest collection of material yet published on the psychological problems of veterans of the Vietnam war. It will provide not only an important historical document, but an invaluable ...

When the Past Is Always Present Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures

When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures

1st Edition

By Ronald A. Ruden
June 29, 2015

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 ...

Combat Stress Injury Theory, Research, and Management

Combat Stress Injury: Theory, Research, and Management

1st Edition

Edited By William Nash
April 23, 2015

Combat Stress Injury represents a definitive collection of the most current theory, research, and practice in the area of combat and operational stress management, edited by two experts in the field. In this book, Charles Figley and Bill Nash have assembled a wide-ranging group of authors (military...

Empathy in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD

Empathy in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD

1st Edition

By John P. Wilson, Ph.D., Rhiannon Brywnn Thomas, Ph.D.
April 23, 2015

Empathy in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD examines how professionals are psychologically impacted by their work with trauma clients. A national research study provides empirical evidence, documenting the struggle for professionals to maintain therapeutic equilibrium and empathic attunement with ...

Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children and Adolescents Measures, Methods, and Youth in Context

Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children and Adolescents: Measures, Methods, and Youth in Context

1st Edition

By Kathleen Nader
April 23, 2015

In this volume, Kathleen Nader has compiled an articulate and comprehensive guide to the complex process of assessment in youth and adolescent trauma. There are many issues that are important to evaluating children and adolescents, and it is increasingly clear that reliance on just one type of...

Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health Understanding Risks and Promoting Resilience

Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health: Understanding Risks and Promoting Resilience

1st Edition

Edited By Gertie Quitangon, Mark R. Evces
January 28, 2015

Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health focuses on the clinician and the impact of working with disaster survivors. Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, mass shootings, terrorism and other large-scale catastrophic events have increased in the last decade and disaster resilience has become a national ...

Stress And The Family Coping With Normative Transitions

Stress And The Family: Coping With Normative Transitions

1st Edition

Edited By Hamilton I McCubbin, Charles R. Figley
December 23, 2014

First published in 1983. This is Volume 1 of two in a collection of on stress and the family. The books view the family as both producing and reacting to stress and attempt to identify the sources of stress from either inside or outside the family microsystem. Further, the volumes distinguish ...

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