Coping With Trauma: A Guide to Self-Understanding - Hardcover

Allen, Jon G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880487208 ISBN 13: 9780880487207

Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc, 1995

Synopsis

Traumatic experience is alarmingly prevalent; few people escape its direct or indirect effects. The author has drawn on his wide experience to help laypersons understand the complex and often bewildering impact of traumatic experience. This work provides a comprehensive and readable summary of current professional knowledge for people of diverse backgrounds and education. Those who are struggling to cope with the direct effects of trauma should find the book an informative and also a sensitive guide to better understanding themselves and their experience. Partners and family members of traumatised individuals can gain increased understanding of and empathy with their loved ones, in addition to learning how to be more supportive. Mental health professionals who work with people with a history of trauma should find the book to be a useful digest of current knowledge that they can share with their patients.

About this title

About the Author

Jon G. Allen, Ph.D.,is currently Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Washburn University of Topeka, Kansas. At The Menninger Clinic, he is editor of theBulletin of the Menninger Clinic, a scholarly journal for the mental health professions. He has authored and coauthored numerous publications based on his research and clinical work on testing, psychotherapy, and hospital treatment. Dr. Allen is senior staff psychologist in the Trauma Recovery Program at The Menninger Clinic and a member of the editorial boards ofPsychiatryandThe Menninger Letter.

Review

Coping With Trauma exudes a philosophy of empowerment through understanding. Dr. Allen achieves a remarkable balance between the dual tensions of accessibility and scientific accuracy -- Psychiatric Services

No other source [does] a better job of synthesizing this material, and in such a comprehensive and readable fashion -- Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health

Overall, this is an excellent book. The expertise of the author is coupled with his unusual skill in writing in simple, readable style. It is also a well-organized book -- Behavorial Research Therapy

Edition details

• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0880487208
• ISBN 13: 9780880487207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 385