Principles of Trauma Therapy A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment

"Much has transpired in the 18 years since the first edition of Principle of Trauma Therapy was published. In North America, there have been many large-scale natural disasters; multiple mass shootings; two wars; widespread and seemingly increasing racism, homophobia, and discrimination against LBTQ+ people; and a global pandemic that devastated millions of individuals. Worldwide, there have been large-scale atrocities, invasions, forced displacement, human trafficking, torture, and starvation. At the same time, thousands of new studies on psychological trauma and a number of new evidence-based/informed developments in trauma treatment have emerged. Indeed, in the last decade the field of psychological trauma has become part of mainstream academia and clinical practice, and thousands of newly minted counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and psychiatrists have stepped into the fray, sometimes with greater trauma-relevant knowledge and clinical skills than previous generations of clinicians. Given the ever-growing need for evidence-informed trauma therapy and the burgeoning of research and practice in the field, we offer here a substantially revised third edition of Principles of Trauma Therapy. It includes extensive updates to all previous chapters, based on new developments in the field, including"-- Provided by publisher.