The Link Between Childhood Trauma and Mental Illness: Effective Interventions for Mental Health Professionals

by Ruth Gallop and Barbara Everett

Book Overview

This informative book gives mental health professionals who are not child abuse specialists knowledge and skills that are especially relevant to their direct service role and practice context. It introduces to these practitioners a conceptual bridge between biomedical and psychosocial understandings of mental disorder, providing a multidimensional approach that allows professionals to think holistically and connect clients′ abusive pasts with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761916989
• ISBN13: 9780761916987
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"