The Link Between Childhood Trauma and Mental Illness: Effective Interventions for Mental Health Professionals

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 behaviors. It includes reviews of the most up-to-date findings with direct practice guides in helping clients.

Author: Barbara Everett, Ruth Gallop
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 09/21/2000
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.44w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780761916987

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2000 pg. 102