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Humanising Mental Health Care in Australia is a unique and innovative contribution to the healthcare literature that outlines the trauma-informed approaches necessary to provide a more compassionate model of care for those who suffer with mental illness. The impact of abuse and trauma is frequently overlooked in this population, to the detriment of both individual and society. This work highlights the importance of recognising such a history and responding humanely. The book explores the trauma-informed perspective across four sections. The first outlines theory, constructs and effects of abuse and trauma. The second section addresses the effects of abuse and trauma on specific populations. The third section outlines a diverse range of individual treatment approaches. The final section takes a broader perspective, examining the importance of culture and training as well as the organisation and delivery of services. Written in an accessible style by a diverse group of national and international experts, Humanising Mental Health Care in Australia is an invaluable resource for mental health clinicians, the community managed and primary health sectors, policy makers and researchers, and will be a helpful reference for people who have experienced trauma and those who care for them. Humanising Mental Health Care in Australia is a unique and innovative contribution to the healthcare literature that outlines the trauma-informed approaches necessary to provide a more compassionate model of care for those who suffer with mental illness. The impact of abuse and trauma is frequently overlooked in this population, to the detriment of both individual and society. This work highlights the importance of recognising such a history and responding humanely. The book explores the trauma-informed perspective across four sections. The first outlines theory, constructs and effects of abuse and trauma. The second section addresses the effects of abuse and trauma on specific populations. The third section outlines a diverse range of individual treatment approaches. The final section takes a broader perspective, examining the importance of culture and training as well as the organisation and delivery of services. Written in an accessible style by a diverse group of national and international experts, Humanising Mental Health Care in Australia is an invaluable resource for mental health clinicians, the community managed and primary health sectors, policy makers and researchers, and will be a helpful reference for people who have experienced trauma and those who care for them.

The comprehensive theory- and research-based guidelines provided in this text help answer the personal and professional questions therapists have as they provide competent clinical treatment to clients who have experienced family violence. It presents academic, scholarly, and statistical terms in an accessible and user-friendly way, with useful take-away points for practitioners such as clarifying contradictory findings, summarizing major research-based implications and guidelines, and addressing the unique clinical challenges faced by mental health professionals. Both professionals and students in graduate-level mental health training programs will find the presentation of information and exercises highly useful, and will appreciate the breadth of topics covered: intimate partner violence, battering, child maltreatment and adult survivors, co-occurring substance abuse, the abuse of vulnerable populations, cultural issues, prevention, and self-care. Professionals and students alike will find that, with this book, they can help their clients overcome the significant traumas and challenges they face to let their strength and resilience shine through.

Empathy in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD examines how professionals are psychologically impacted by their work with trauma clients. A national research study provides empirical evidence, documenting the struggle for professionals to maintain therapeutic equilibrium and empathic attunement with their trauma clients. Among the many important findings of this study, all participants reported being emotionally and psychologically affected by the work, often quite profoundly leading to changes in worldview, beliefs about the nature of humankind and the meaning of life.John P. Wilson and Rhiannon Thomas set out to understand how to heal those who experience empathic strain in the course of their professional specialization. The data included in the book allows for the development of conceptual dynamic models of effective management of empathic strain, which may cause vicarious traumatization, burnout and serious countertransference processes.

Military psychology has become one of the world’s fastest-growing disciplines with ever-emerging new applications of research and development. The Routledge International Handbook of Military Psychology and Mental Health is a compendium of chapters by internationally renowned scholars in the field, bringing forth the state of the art in the theory, practice and future prospects of military psychology. This uniquely interdisciplinary volume deliberates upon the current issues and applications of military psychology not only within the military organization and the discipline of psychology, but also in the larger context of its role of building a better world. Split into three parts dedicated to specific themes, the first part of the book, \"Military Psychology: The Roots and the Journey,\" provides an overview of the evolution of the discipline over the years, delving into concepts as varied as culture and cognition in the military, a perspective on the role of military psychology in future warfare and ethical issues. The second part, \"Soldiering: Deployment and Beyond,\" considers the complexities involved in soldiering in view of the changing nature of warfare, generating a focal discourse on various aspects of military leadership, soldier resilience and post-traumatic growth in the face of extreme situations, bravery and character strengths and transitioning to civilian life. In the final section, \"Making a Choice: Mental Health Issues and Prospects in the Military,\" the contributors focus on the challenges and practices involved in maintaining the mental health of the soldier, covering issues ranging from stress, mental health and well-being, through to suicide risk and its prevention, intervention and management strategies, moral injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. Incorporating enlightening contributions of eminent scholars from around the world, the volume is a comprehensive repository of current perspectives and future directions in the domain of military psychology. It will prove a valuable resource for mental health practitioners, military leaders, policy-makers and academics and students across a range of disciplines.

Based on twenty years of intense qualitative research, Transcending Trauma presents an integrated model of coping and adaptation after trauma that incorporates the best of recent work in the field with the expanded insights offered by Holocaust survivors. In the book’s vignettes and interview transcripts, survivors of a broad range of traumas will recognize their own challenges, and mental-health professionals will gain invaluable insight into the dominant themes both of Holocaust survivors and of trauma survivors more generally. Together, the authors and contributors Sheryl Perlmutter Bowen, Hannah Kliger, Lucy Raizman, Juliet Spitzer and Emilie Scherz Passow have transformed qualitative narrative analysis and framed for us a new and profound understanding of survivorship. Their study has illuminated universal aspects of the recovery from trauma, and Transcending Trauma makes a vital contribution to our understanding of how survivors find meaning after traumatic events. Accompanying Transcending Trauma is a CD of full-text life histories that documents the survivor experience. In seven comprehensive interviews, survivors paint a picture of life before and after war and trauma: their own feelings, beliefs, and personalities as well as those of their family; their struggles to deal with loss and suffering; and the ways in which their family relationships were able, in some cases, to mediate the transmission of trauma across generations and help the survivors transcend the trauma of their experiences. \" Transcending Trauma shows that it is possible to learn even from the most horrific events of the past hundred years. The authors emphasize that trauma always involves survival and that focusing on survival can deepen our understanding of coping and resilience. The result is a magnificent integration of individual, family and cultural perspectives on trauma and resilience.\" - Danny Brom, Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma, Jerusalem, Israel, and coeditor of Treating Traumatized Children: Risk, Resilience, and Recovery \" Transcending Trauma changes the way we think about Holocaust survivors—and, indeed, about the human ability to cope with all manner of traumatic experience.\" - from the foreword by Charles R. Figley, PhD, the Paul Henry Kurzweg Distinguished Chair in Disaster Mental Health at Tulane University and author of Compassion Fatigue \" Transcending Trauma is a sensitive and thorough—as well as clear and comprehensible—study of a controversial topic.\" - Peter Suedfeld, PhD, professor emeritus, University of British Columbia \"The authors of Transcending Trauma have captured the process that allows trauma survivors to travel to the abyss and back. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the intergenerational transmission of sorrow, hope, and social justice.\" - Roberta Greene, professor at the University of Texas School of Social Work and author of Resiliency: An Integrated Approach to Practice, Policy, and Research \"I found [this book] absolutely compelling and awe inspiring. [The authors] have done an immense job of integrating vast amounts of data and then integrating the relevant literature. I think the contribution [they] have made is astounding. The main points of [the] work are critically important ...every chapter reads like the work of love.\" - Kaethe Weingarten Part I: The Transcending Trauma Project. Goldenberg, Isserman, Hollander-Goldfein, Introduction: The Transcending Trauma Project. Goldenberg, Hollander-Goldfein, Resilience After Prolonged Trauma: An Integrated Framework. Isserman, Making the Unmanageable Manageable: Innovative Tools for Analyzing a Large Qualitative Dataset. Part II: Survivors and the Impact of Pre-war Family Dynamics on Post-war Lives. Goldenberg, \"The Biggest Star is Your Mother\": Prewar Coping Strategies of 18 Adolescent Survivors. Goldenberg, The How and Why of Survival: Causal Attributions and the Search for Meaning. Isserman, \"If Somebody Throws a Rock on You, You Throw Back Bread . . .\": The Impact of Family Dynamics on Tolerance and Intolerance in Survivors of Genocide. Goldenberg, A Minyan of Trees: The Role of Faith and Ritual in Post-war Coping and its Relevance to Working With Trauma Survivors. Part III: Parenting Patterns. Isserman, Hollander-Goldfein, Raizman, Parenting in Survivor Families: Critical Factors in Determining Family Patterns. Hollander-Goldfein, Isserman, Raizman, \"Like a Bridge Over Troubled Waters\": Divergent Parenting and the Mediating Influence of Positive Parental Attachment. Part IV: Intergenerational Transmission to the Children of Survivors. Bowen, Spitzer, Passow, \"The Elephant in the Room\": Survivor Holocaust Communication With Their Children. Kliger, Hollander-Goldfein, Holocaust Narratives and Their Impact on Adult Children of Survivors. Hollander-Goldfein, A Systemic Perspective of Coping and Adaptation: The Inextricable Connection Between Individual and Family. Appendix One: Demographics of the TTP Dataset. Bea Hollander-Goldfein, Ph.D., LMFT is codirector of the Postgraduate Certificate Program in Marriage and Family Therapy, director of the Transcending Trauma Project, and senior staff therapist at the Council for Relationships at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is also a clinical assistant professor at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, USA Nancy Isserman, Ph.D. is codirector of the Transcending Trauma Project at the Council for Relationships at the University of Pennsylvania and associate director of the Feinstein Center in Philadelphia, USA Jennifer Goldenberg, Ph.D., LCSW is a clinical social worker in private practice in Bangor, Maine, USA

Learn how to help your congregants work cooperatively with mental health professionals! This revised edition of The Soul in Distress i is a reader-friendly overview of the full range of adult psychiatric disorders. Updated with new information on genetics, brain scans, heredity, developmental concerns, new medications, and stress, it suggests ways for clergy to assist their congregants suffering from these illnesses and provides ethical guidance and clinical examples, often illustrating how physical disease can affect mental health. It also examines new short-term therapies and ways to handle difficult personalities. From author Richard W. Roukema, MD, FAPA: “With the recent events of terrorism in our country, the need for the clergy to be alert to the fallout on the lives of their congregants is clear. Anxiety, depression, prolonged grief, and post-traumatic stress disorder will be increasingly evident as the threat of terrorism continues. Now more than ever, the clergy should obtain a basic overview of the emotional and mental disorders they may encounter in their congregations. This book will update the clergy to the current state of knowledge in the field.” With fascinating case studies, and practical suggestions for dealing with various psychiatric disorders, Counseling for the Soul in Distress: What Every Religious Counselor Should Know About Emotional and Mental Illness, Second Edition examines: new trends in psychotherapy such as EMDR and Christian counseling the art of providing appropriate referrals to psychiatrists the aftermath of the September 11 attacks the ways that loss and grief affect the personality personality disorders depression and other mood disorders eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and obesity stress and its implications schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders neuroses organic mental disorders sexual problems drug abuse and alcoholism Written specifically for the clergy by a well-respected psychiatrist, this new edition of Counseling for the Soul in Distress is an essential addition to your reference shelf! Foreword Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: Conflicts and Concerns of Religion and Psychiatry A Look Backward Common Roles Historical Changes What Psychiatry Can Do Chapter 2. Parents, Society, and Heredity The Freudian Revolution: The Shift to Parental Responsibility Effect on Child Rearing The Shift to Social Causes Reactions to Social Changes Research on Heredity of Mental Illness Conclusion Chapter 3. Biochemistry, Mental Illness, and Medication What Is a Disease? The Use of Medication in Psychiatry Selecting the Proper Medication Chapter 4. Mood Disorders: Depression and Manic States Prevalence of Depression The Nature of Depression What Causes Depression? Environmentally Induced Depression: Phil A Biologically Induced Depression: Bob Medical Treatment Antidepressant Medications Using Antidepressants in Other Psychiatric Conditions A Look Backward Beyond Medication How Can the Clergy Help? Chapter 5. Schizophrenic Disorders What Is Schizophrenia? A Brief History What Causes Schizophrenia? Antipsychotic Drugs (Neuroleptics) The Role of the Clergy Chapter 6. Other Psychotic Disorders Delusional Disorder Schizophreniform Disorder Schizoaffective Disorder Brief Psychotic Disorder Shared Psychotic Disorder Psychotic Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition Treatment of the Psychoses The Role of the Clergy Chapter 7. The Neuroses Anxiety Disorders Somatoform Disorders Dissociative Disorders What Can the Clergy Do About Anxiety Disorders? Chapter 8. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse What Is Alcoholism? Why Do People Drink Alcohol? Drinking Patterns How Many People Drink Alcohol? Types of Alcoholism Drug Abuse Treatment of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse The Important Role of Alcoholics Anonymous Substance Abuse and the Clergy Chapter 9. Organic Mental Disorders Overview of Organic Mental Disorders What Causes Organic Mental Disorders? Diagnosing Organic Brain Disease Organic Disease Masquerading As Emotional Illness What Can the Clergy Do? Chapter 10. Personality Disorders How Does the Personality Develop? Classification of Personality Disorders Understanding Personality Types Personality Types and the Clergy Chapter 11. The Psychological Effects of Loss Losses Large and Small Defending Against Loss Recognizing Stages of Grief in the Family Dealing with Loss Loss and the Clergy Chapter 12. Sexual Problems in Our Culture Recent Changes The Sexual Disorders The Paraphilias Sexual Dysfunctions Treatment Other Sexual Topics What Can the Clergy Do? Chapter 13. Eating Disorders Early Feeding An Overview of Eating Disorders Anorexia Nervosa Bulimia Binge-Eating Disorder Obesity Further Research Directions What the Clergy Can Do Chapter 14. Understanding Stress Stress: Yesterday and Today Human Development and Stress Stresses of Childhood Adult Stresses Stress on the Job Identity Problems The Stress of Loss Marital Stress Coping with Stress Exploring Needs Chapter 15. Pastoral Ethics: A Psychiatrist's View Confidentiality Transference and Countertransference Problems Countertransference Commitment Summary Chapter 16. Psychotherapists: Who, What, Why, and When to Refer The Psychiatrist's Education Basic Assumptions in Psychiatry Types of Psychotherapy Recent Developments The Competent Psychotherapist Choosing a Psychotherapist Chapter 17. Conclusion Bibliography Index Reference Notes Included