Understanding, Assessing and Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse - Hardcover

Rodriguez-Srednicki, Ofelia; Twaite, James A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765703939 ISBN 13: 9780765703934

Publisher: Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

This important book identifies the adult adjustment disorders that are associated with childhood abuse and explains why various forms of abuse lead to specific adjustment difficulties. The authors provide clinicians with guidelines for assessment and treatment modalities that have been shown to be highly effective with specific abuse-related disorders.

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Review:

The authors point out that clinicians need to consider whether a patient's symptoms reflect childhood abuse and, if they do, conduct a preliminary assessment to detect the history of that abuse. The authors discuss assessment and intervention in both group and individual therapy, and they include case studies that illustrate the connection between childhood abuse and adult disorders. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through professionals.--CHOICE

About the Author:

Ofelia Rodriguez-Srednicki, Ph.D. is an associate professor of psycholog at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ. She is also a clinician in private practice at Upper Montclair Psychological Associates in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. James A. Twaite is a psychologist and statistician in private practice in Milford, Pennsylvania. He is also the director of research at Neurodynamics, Inc., a neurofeedback treatment center in Tenafly, New Jersey. He has taught courses in psychology, statistics, and psychometrics at Teachers College, Columbia University, at Barnard College, and at the College of New Rochelle. He is the author of three previous professional books: Introductory Statistics; The Black Elderly: Satisfaction in Later Life; and Children of Divorce.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0765703939
• ISBN 13: 9780765703934
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376