Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This book is invaluable for clinicians who provide trauma-focused care. Adopting a practitioner’s perspective, the book focuses on practical applications and skill-building. Updated with DSM-5-TR content throughout, the book begins with an overview of the trauma field and historical and intergenerational trauma, and proceeds to review individual, group, and community interventions using cognitive-behavioral, relational, affect regulation, mindfulness, and psychopharmacologic approaches. Besides models of trauma therapy, other topics include the neurobiology of trauma, racial trauma, political trauma, community and school crises, and pandemics and natural disasters. Current theoretical perspectives and methods that provide a paradigm for stage appropriate, culture-based therapy, which can be integrated into existing therapeutic orientations, are outlined. Coverage of a wide range of trauma and inclusion of evidence-based interventions and current theoretical and research literature makes it comprehensive. An ecological perspective helps readers focus on the importance of viewing behavior in the context of social settings and the physical and psychosocial barriers to trauma recovery. The book’s empowering approach shifts attention from deficits and dependence toward resources and resiliency. Both empowerment and ecological theory integrate a critical understanding of the cultural and sociopolitical environment that contributes to trauma, thus restoring clients’ personal control and recovery. The book provides specific information on working with rape survivors, conducting groups for battered women, facilitating community meetings and debriefings, and developing crisis protocols for schools or communities. Client vignettes gleaned from clinical experience provide a hands-on resource for clinicians and graduate students training to become mental health providers.</jats:p>