Treating Psychological Trauma and Ptsd

Book Overview

Much has been learned about PTSD in the past two decades, yet many questions remain about the complex pathways by which trauma disrupts people's lives. This authoritative volume presents an innovative psychobiological framework to help clinicians and researchers better understand the myriad difficulties facing patients and navigate the array of available intervention approaches. Incorporating the latest theory and clinical research, the book provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572306874
• ISBN13: 9781572306875
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 467 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Reference Guide

I am using this book as a reference guide to treatment manual that I have regarding drug addictions and PTSD. It has been helpful.

A foundational reference

This text is a fundamental starting point for any clinician who even has an occasional case that involves traumatic stress; a must for those who work with survivors on a regular basis. This is an invaluable reference book that represents decades of research and clinical experience of the collected experts who have contributed. ~bill krill [...]

Interesting and helpful

This is an extremely helpful academic text, largely directed at medical and other clinicians diagnosing and treating post-traumatic stress disorder. However, the book is also helpful for laymen like myself, searching for a comprehensive understanding of the signs, symptoms and treatments for this diagnosis. The book covers the complexity of the disorder quite well. As noted in Chapter 2, on a Holistic approach to healing trauma and PTSD, "considerations concerning the psychological treatments for postraumatic stress syndromes (PTSS) are complex and multidimensional in nature. The treatment... involves contact with forces that inflict psychological injury and attack the human spirit and efforts to remain psychically whole." That's a perfect definition, in a nutshell. Question is, what to do about it. The book contains, lengthy discussions of the specific effects, and different manifestations of this disorder, an encyclopedic chapter on psychopharmacological therapies, and other clinical treatment methods. For my purposes, the chapter on childhood trauma is most interesting. This section covers a host of treatment modalities. My only complaint is that the section does not cover neurobiofeedback, a type of brain therapy and training which seems to hold a great deal of promise. I'm also skeptical about the limited number of treatments recommended for several modalities. But the book covers a broad number of issues, and will be helpful to clinicians and victims as well as the families of victims.