Full Description
This is the first comprehensive reader in a new area of counselling. It brings together well-known authors on traumatic stress responses and good counselling practice, as well as new material specifically written in order to fill gaps in current published sources. The authors cover an extensive range of methods for helping people, including videotaping, brief group counselling, expressive art, and information on helping the helpers.
Contents
PTSD Diagnosis and Treatment for Mental Health Clinicians - Matthew J Friedman
Assessment and Conceptualization - Michael J Scott
Guidelines for Crisis Counselling - Michael J Scott
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Michael J Scott
A Cognitive-Contextual Approach
Cognitive-Behavioural Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from a Narrative Constructivist Perspective - Michael F Hoyt
A Conversation with Donald Meichenbaum
Brief Group Counselling and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Michael J Scott and Stephen G Stradling
Letter Writing, Audiotaping and Videotaping as Therapeutic Tools - Donald Meichenbaum
Use of `Healing' Metaphors
What Can Be Done to Help Clients with PTSD and DES? - Donald Meichenbaum
Expressive Art as a Form of Prevention and Treatment of PTSD with Children - Donald Meichenbaum
Helping the Helpers - Donald Meichenbaum
The Counting Method for Ameliorating Traumatic Memories - Frank M Ochberg
Journeying with the Traumatized - Michael J Scott
The Hillsborough Disaster
Power Therapies, Miraculous Claims and the Cures That Fail - Gerald M Rosen et al