Series: Psychosocial Stress Series

The Handbook of Stress, Trauma, and the Family is broken down into three sections, compiling research, theory, and practice. The first section focuses on how traumatic stress affects intimate others, what familial characteristics affect individual susceptibility to trauma, as well as evaluation of the effectiveness of various interventions. The section on theory explores concepts of stress and intrapsychic processes underlying...

Together, School Rampage Shootings and Other Youth Disturbances and its accompanying CD provide a complete toolkit for using early preventative interventions with elementary-school age children. In ten thoughtful, clearly written chapters, both new and experienced practitioners will find a wealth of research- and evidence-based techniques that link personal child and childhood environmental conditions to a number of symptoms, disturbances, and...

This book compiles a definitive collection of work on the theory and practice of clinical, spiritual, and emotional support following the experience of violent death—counselling beyond the crisis. Over the past decade, there have been countless publications devoted to crisis response, crisis intervention and counselling, disaster mental health services, and support for victims of traumatic events. However, there are almost...