Coping with Trauma: A Guide to Self-understanding - Hardcover

Allen, Jon G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880487208 ISBN 13: 9780880487207

Publisher: American Psychiatric Press Inc., 1995

Synopsis

Traumatic experience is alarmingly prevalent; few people escape its direct or indirect effects. The author has drawn on his wide experience to help laypersons understand the complex and often bewildering impact of traumatic experience. This work provides a comprehensive and readable summary of current professional knowledge for people of diverse backgrounds and education. Those who are struggling to cope with the direct effects of trauma should find the book an informative and also a sensitive guide to better understanding themselves and their experience. Partners and family members of traumatised individuals can gain increased understanding of and empathy with their loved ones, in addition to learning how to be more supportive. Mental health professionals who work with people with a history of trauma should find the book to be a useful digest of current knowledge that they can share with their patients.

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Review

"Unlike most books meant for lay readers, this volume gives a large number of references to back up the statement made, and this is done unobtrusively. This enables the interested readers, especially professional readers (who will find this book most useful to read) to follow up the relevant references. Overall, this is an excellent book. The expertise of the author is coupled with his unusual skill in writing in simple, readable style. It is also a well-organized book."- "Behavorial Research Therapy"

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Press Inc.
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0880487208
• ISBN 13: 9780880487207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384