Coping with Trauma

ISBN-13: 9781138462816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Brom, Danny

Opis

This book provides a state-of-the-art guide to the rapidly growing field of traumatic stress. It reviews and integrates the many scientific findings from psychology, psychiatry and sociology into an encompassing model. Topics such as normal and disturbed coping patterns, social support and various risk factors are also discussed. In addition to the theoretical model, a number of treatment methods for posttraumatic stress disorders is described. Theoretical and practical issues of these treatments are presented. This integrative approach is of interest to researchers and all professionals who are involved in research and/or health care with regard to traumatic events.

Spis treści

PART I. Introduction and Concepts
1. Traumatic stress
2. General concepts

PART II. Traumatic Events
3. War
4. Disaster
5. Violence
6. Concentration camps
7. Loss

PART III. General Theory
8. Coping with trauma
9. Determinants of trauma and coping

PART IV. Intervention
10. Prevention
11. Behavior therapy
12 Short-term psychodynamic therapy
13. Hypnotherapy
14. The effects of brief psychotherapy

Epilogue
15. Trauma in perspective

References

Index
I Names
II Subjects

O autorze

Rolf J. Kleber is a social and cross-cultural psychologist. He is a senior researcher at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, and head of the research unit of the Institute for Psychotrauma.

Danny Brom is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. He was the first Director of the Institute for Psychotrauma, The Netherlands, and is presently working at Ezrath Nashim Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. 

Peter B. Defares, a social psychologist and psychotherapist, is Professor in Psychology of Stress at the University of Amsterdam.