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Principles of Trauma Therapy
A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment ( DSM-5 Update)

Second Edition
  • John N. Briere - University of Southern California, USA
  • Catherine Scott - University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles


March 2014 | 440 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Thoroughly updated with DSM-5 content throughout, Principles of Trauma Therapy, Second Edition: DSM-5 Update is both comprehensive in scope and highly practical in application. This popular text provides a creative synthesis of cognitive-behavioral, relational, affect regulation, mindfulness, and psychopharmacologic approaches to the "real world" treatment of acute and chronic posttraumatic states. Grounded in empirically-supported trauma treatment techniques and adapted to the complexities of actual clinical practice, this book is a hands-on resource for front-line clinicians, those in private practice, and graduate students of public mental health.
 
Part I: Trauma, Effects, and Assessment
 
Chapter 1: What Is Trauma?
 
Chapter 2: The Effects of Trauma
 
Chapter 3: Assessing Trauma and Posttraumatic Outcomes
 
Part II: Clinical Interventions
 
Chapter 4: Central Issues in Trauma Treatment
 
Chapter 5: Psychoeducation
 
Chapter 6: Distress Reduction and Affect Regulation Training
 
Chapter 7: Cognitive Interventions
 
Chapter 8: Emotional Processing
 
Chapter 9: Increasing Identity and Relational Functioning
 
Chapter 10: Mindfulness in Trauma Treatment
 
Chapter 11: Treating the Effects of Acute Trauma
 
Chapter 12: Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology of Trauma
 
Chapter 13: Conclusions

This text is thorough, detailed and extremely knowledgeable about the trauma response, and trauma treatment. It is also relatively atheoretical, so it is perfect for a general education on the nature of trauma. It's very readable as well.

Francesca Parker
Education & Psychology Dept, Pepperdine University
September 27, 2019

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Chapter 4

Chapter 6


John Neale Briere

John N. Briere, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, where he consults and teaches in the ER, burn unit, and inpatient psychiatry, and Center Director of the USC Adolescent Trauma Training Center’s National Child Traumatic Stress Network. A past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, he is recipient of the Robert S. Laufer Memorial Award for Scientific Achievement from ISTSS, and the Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association’s Division 56, and has been... More About Author

Catherine Scott

 Catherine Scott, MD, is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. Her educational background includes Harvard College, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and psychiatric residency training at Cornell and USC. She was formerly Medical Director of the Psychological Trauma Program at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center, and the Associate Medical Director of the Psychiatric Emergency Service at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center, where she taught and supervised resident physicians and medical students in the... More About Author

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ISBN: 9781483351247
$129.00