First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume describes PTSD along with clinical guidelines for a broad spectrum of effective treatment approaches. Promotes theoretical, therapeutic, and administrative understanding of the chronic and delayed post-traumatic stress disorders.

This text provides an overview of the causes and treatment approaches for counselling families under stress, focusing on several examples of extreme tension.

The volume's main sections are based on the stages of therapy: creating a context for change, challenging behaviors, expanding alternatives, and consolidation. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The authors' extensive clinical experience with traumatized clients, as well as their profound awareness of the limitations of existing paradigms, have directed them to construct a new, comprehensive heuristic theory that can be applied effectively

This volume is the latest in a series that focuses on the immediate and long-term consequences of highly stressful events. It focuses on those individuals who provide therapy to victims of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder crisis and trauma counselors, Red Cross workers, nurses, doctors, and other care

Sometimes called secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue describes the traumatic effect and the toll that helping those suffering with PTSD can have on the helping professional. The objective of this text is to aid the identification, assessment, and treatment of compassion fatigue, and this conveyed through 11 chapters, each from distinguished researchers in the field.