1st Edition

Understanding Trauma and Emotion Dealing with trauma using an emotion-focused approach

By Colin Wastell Copyright 2005
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

I recommend this scholarly and readable book to all concerned with the field of stress and trauma. Students and clinicians will find it equally beneficial. Mardi J. Horowitz, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco and author of Stress Response Syndromes and Treatment of Stress Response Syndromes This is a remarkably good book. One seldom sees such exquisite... Read more
Acknowledgments

Figures and Tables

Introduction

Chapter 1: Trauma

Chapter 2: Emotion processes and trauma

Chapter 3: Emotion and trauma treatment

Chapter 4: Treatment of circumscribed trauma

Chapter 5: Treatment of complex traumatisation

Chapter 6: The Trauma therapist and their emotions

Chapter 7: Traumatic dissociation

Appendices

Glossary

References

Index

Biography

Colin Wastell Ph.D. is Senior Lecturer in the Psychology Department and former founding director of the counselling psychology program at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has been involved in counselling and psychotherapy practice, research and training for over 15 years in a variety of contexts. His work on trauma has included both civilian and military survivors across a wide spectrum of the adult age range.