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The Link Between Childhood Trauma and Mental Illness

Effective Interventions for Mental Health Professionals
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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 behaviours. It includes reviews of the most up-todate findings with direct practice guides in helping clients.
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
"This is a very useful book, particularly for novice practitioners and front-line workers who may not have had a supervised experience dealing with abused individuals." -- Susan Bradley
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