Bloom, a physician, and Reichert, a psychologist are involved with a task force on psychosocial causes of violence created by the Philadelphia chapter of the Physicians for Social Responsibility, and they both have extensive experience in the field. They offer sorely needed insight, addressing the cycle of violence in society by discussing some of
Bloom, a physician, and Reichert, a psychologist are involved with a task force on psychosocial causes of violence created by the Philadelphia chapter...
Layperson's introduction to the scope and causes of violence and trauma theory suggesting ways we can all work to eliminate them, with the beginnings of an outline for reorganising society and the aim of establishing a community responsive to the basic need for safety and peace.
Layperson's introduction to the scope and causes of violence and trauma theory suggesting ways we can all work to eliminate them, with the beginnings ...
For the last thirty years, the nation's mental health and social service systems have been under relentless assault, with dramatically rising costs and the fragmentation of service delivery rendering them incapable of ensuring the safety, security, and recovery of their clients. The resulting organizational trauma both mirrors and magnifies the trauma-related problems their clients seek relief from. Just as the lives of people exposed to chronic trauma and abuse become organized around the traumatic experience, so too have our social service systems become organized around the recurrent...
For the last thirty years, the nation's mental health and social service systems have been under relentless assault, with dramatically rising costs an...
Creating Sanctuary is a description of a hospital-based program to treat adults who had been abused as children and the revolutionary knowledge about trauma and adversity that the program was based upon. This book focuses on the biological, psychological, and social aspects of trauma. Fifteen years later, Dr. Sandra Bloom has updated this classic work to include the groundbreaking Adverse Childhood Experiences Study that came out in 1998, information about Epigenetics, and new material about what we know about the brain and violence.
This book is for courses in counseling, social work,...
Creating Sanctuary is a description of a hospital-based program to treat adults who had been abused as children and the revolutionary knowledge abo...
