Link Between Childhood Trauma and Mental Illness - Effective Interventions for Mental Health Professionals

Klappentext 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.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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Everett, Barbara Gallop Everett, Ruth Gallop
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2000
• EAN: 9780761916987
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-1698-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Umgang mit Missbrauch, Gewalt und Missbrauch in der Gesellschaft, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Abuse / General, MEDICAL / Mental Health, Psychische Gesundheitsvorsorge, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Psychology