A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions

A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions provides trauma counselors with effective guidelines that enhance skills and improve expertise in conducting empowering therapeutic interventions. Taking a practitioner’s perspective, author Priscilla Dass-Brailsford focuses on practical application and skill building in an effort to understand the impact of extreme stress and violence on the human psyche.

Key Features:??

• Offers comprehensive coverage of trauma intervention: The wide coverage of the different levels of trauma- individual, community, institutional-and attention to the current theoretical and research literature makes this text the most comprehensive regarding trauma and its treatment.
• Highlights the intersection between trauma and culture: An ecological perspective focuses on the importance of viewing behavior within its social setting and examining the physical and psychosocial barriers to trauma recovery.
• Emphasizes the theme of "empowerment": Empowerment focuses on client strengths as the practitioner is encouraged to support clients towards resiliency.
• Provides an extensive historical background: The book examines multigenerational trauma experienced by several ethnic minority groups.
• Includes case studies and worksheets: Case studies gleaned from the author’s clinical experience provide a snapshot of the field and make the work of trauma come alive.

Intended Audience:??
This is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on psychological trauma in the departments of Counseling, Psychology, Human Services, and Social Work. It is also a useful resource for practicing clinicians. (20080814)