Group Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Conceptualization, Themes and Processes

ISBN-13: 9781138005198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 260 str.

Bruce Young;Dudley D. Blake

Opis

Group Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorders is ideal for clinicians, aspiring clinicians, researchers and educators. It provides a unique and eminently readable summary of group therapy applied to increasingly recognized clinical populations.

Recenzje

"This book portrays well the impact on trauma and distress on groups and how to approach the issue with groups, whether they be communities, neighborhoods, famillies, individuals, etc. This will be of special interest to those called upon to do workplace grief." -- The World Pastoral Care Center

Spis treści

Preface. Group Psychotherapy: An Overview. Family as a Group Treatment for PTSD. Group Treatment of Sexual Assault Victims. Integrative Group Therapy with Disaster Workers. Group Psychotherapy for War-Related PTSD with Military Veterans. Psychological Treatment of Motor Vehicle Accident Survivors with PTSD: Current Knowledge and Application to Group Treatment. Group Treatment of PTSD and co-morbid Alcohol Abuse. Supportive Group Therapy for Bereavement after Homicide. Cognitive-Behavioral Group Treatment for Disaster-Related PTSD. Group Treatment for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse. Afterword.

O autorze

BRUCE H. YOUNG, L.C.S.W., is disaster services coordinator for the National Center for PTSD and editor of the NC-PTSD Clinical Quarterly. Mr. Young has been a disaster mental health consultant to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Public Health Service, Center for Mental Health Services, National Institute of Mental Health, Department of Defense, and state departments of mental health following numerous natural and human-made disasters. He has produced and directed several educational videos, including Children and Trauma, winner of the 1993 National Educational Film and Video Award. DUDLEY D. BLAKE, Ph.D., is codirector of the Evaluation and Brief Treatment PTSD Unit at the Boise Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Blake has coauthored over 30 chapters and articles. His clinical interests include PTSD assessment and treatment, cognitive therapy, and behavioral medicine.