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Published USA, 2009
This book assembles expert clinicians to present the latest thinking on complex traumatic stress disorders along with practical guidelines for conceptualization and treatment. While the book focuses primarily on treating adult survivors, best-practice recommendations for working with children are also provided. Other crucial topics include ways to build a trusting therapeutic relationship and strategies for therapist self-care. The text presents an array of specialized treatment models for individuals, couples, families and groups. Featuring extensive session transcripts, each chapter describes the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of the therapy at hand and demonstrates the aspects of intervention. A range of different psychotherapies, as well as psychopharmacology, are discussed.

CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS
Neurobiological and Developmental Research
Best Practices in Psychotherapy for Adults
Assessment of the Sequelae of Complex Trauma
Treating Dissociation
Cultural Competence
Therapeutic Alliance and Risk Management

Contributors includes John Briere, Victoria Follette, Steven Gold, Judith Herman, Susan Johnson, Pat Ogden, Laurie Anne Pearlman, Richard Schwartz, Onno van der Hart and Bessel van der Kolk

Christine Courtois is a psychologist in private practice in Washington DC, USA. Julian Ford is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Hardback. 488 pages
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