Coping With Trauma

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Adam Cash

The new, quick reference for understanding Posttraumatic Stress Disorder The Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder uses clear, highly accessible language to comprehensively guide the reader through posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related issues. This concise, informative reference provides a complete overview of the history of the field, diagnosis, treatment, research, emerging trends, and other critical information about PTSD. Examining both theory and practice, the text offers a multifaceted look at the disorder, outlining biological, cognitive, psychosocial, psychodynamic, integrated, and other relevant approaches. Like all the books in the Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health Series, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder features a compact, easy-to-use format that includes: Vignettes and case illustrations A practical approach that emphasizes real-lif...

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Michael J. Scott and Stephen G. Stradling

Counselling for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Third Edition addresses the specifics of counselling clients who have suffered major trauma, whether recently or in the past, and includes 18 detailed case examples together with transcripts of sessions. The authors' cognitive contextual approach translates the psychobiology of trauma responses into clinically useful analogies and simple drawings that guide the therapist and client. The book is unique in covering the diagnosis and treatment of the full spectrum of post-traumatic states. In this fully updated Third Edition the needs of special pop.

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Joe Rhatigan

With fun illustrations and photographs, this book describes the ways we can get injured and sick and explores the armor that battles to keep the bad things out, the warriors that attack what manages to sneak in, and the "maintenance crew" that tries to clean up the mess and heal us. Disease by disease and injury by injury, this basic medical text takes young readers through various ailments, breaking each one down into a simple explanation of the problem.

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James D. Weinrich

This is a fascinating book on our gender and sexual rituals and preferences, written by a sexologist from a sociobiological perspective. Organized as a series of provocative puzzles or questions on such subjects as male-female differences, homosexuality, transsexualism, and courtship rituals, it offers a refreshing new perspective, part Mendelian genetics, part common sense.