The Link Between Childhood Trauma and Mental Illness: Effective Interventions for Mental Health Professionals / Edition 1

by Barbara Everett, Ruth Gallop

Overview

This informative book gives mental health professionals who are not child abuse specialists knowledge and skills that are especially relevant to their direct service role and practice context. It introduces to these practitioners a conceptual bridge between biomedical and psychosocial understandings of mental disorder, providing a multidimensional approach that allows professionals to think holistically and connect clients' abusive pasts with their present-day symptoms and behaviors. It includes reviews of the most up-to-date findings with direct practice guides in helping clients.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761916994
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/21/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

PART ONE: THEORY AND KNOWLEDGE
Why We Often Miss a History of Childhood Trauma
A Multidimensional Model of Understanding
The Research Story
Recognizing the Signs and Symptoms
The Controversy Surrounding Traumatic Memory
Asking about Abuse
PART TWO: EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS
Understanding Power
The Healing and Recovery Process
Treatment Models
Promoting Client Safety
How to Listen, Hear and Understand Clients' Stories
Crisis Care
The Invisibility of Men's Pain
Racism, Oppression and Childhood Trauma
Personal and Professional Self Care

Editorial Reviews

"This is a very useful book, particularly for novice practitioners and front-line workers who may not have had a supervised experience dealing with abused individuals."

Susan Bradley

The authors are five Canadian-based health-care professionals, though only two are cited. For mental health professionals who are not specialists in child abuse, they offer knowledge and skills relevant to a direct service role and practical context. They introduce a conceptual bridge between biomedical and psychosocial understandings of mental disorder, providing a multidimensional approach that encourages thinking holistically and connecting the abuse pasts of clients with their present symptoms and behaviors. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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