Principles of Trauma Therapy

A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment

John N. Briere, Catherine Scott

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781544333564
• Edition: 3
• eBook ISBN:
  9781544333557
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

John Briere and Catherine Scott?s Principles of Trauma Therapy, Third Edition is both comprehensive in scope and highly practical in application. This best selling text provides a creative synthesis of cognitive-behavioral, relational, affect regulation, mindfulness, and psychopharmacologic approaches to the "real world" treatment of acute and chronic posttraumatic states. Grounded in empirically-supported trauma treatment techniques and adapted to the complexities of actual clinical practice, this book is a hands-on resource for front-line clinicians, those in private practice, and graduate students of public mental health.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Introduction to the Third Edition
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Part I Trauma, Effects, and Assessment
• 1 What Is Trauma?
• 2 The Psychological Effects of Trauma: John Briere, Catherine Scott, & Janelle Jones
• 3 Assessing Trauma and Posttraumatic Outcomes: John Briere, Erin Eadie, & Catherine Scott
• Part II Clinical Interventions
• 4 Central Issues in Trauma Treatment
• 5 Psychoeducation
• 6 Distress Reduction and Emotional Regulation Training
• 7 Cognitive Interventions
• 8 Trigger Management
• 9 Emotional Processing
• 10 Increasing Identity and Relational Functioning
• 11 Mindfulness in Trauma Treatment
• 12 Treating the Effects of Acute Trauma: Sarah Stoycos, Heidi Ardern, John Briere, & Catherine Scott
• 13 Remote Treatment of Trauma: Teletherapy Principles1
• Part III Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology of Trauma
• 14 Neurobiology of Posttraumatic Stress: Catherine Scott, John Briere, & Janelle Jones
• 15 Psychopharmacology of Trauma: Catherine Scott, Janelle Jones, & John Briere
• 16 Conclusions
• Appendix 1 - Trauma Exposure Review (TER; Briere, 2023)
• Appendix 2 - Social Discrimination and Maltreatment Scale – Short Form (SDMS-SF; Briere et al., in press)
• Appendix 3 - Mindfulness-based Breath Training (MBBT) Protocol Hand-out, adapted from Briere and Semple, 2023
• Appendix 4 - A Brief Urge/Emotion Surfing Exercise (Semple & Briere, 2020)
• Appendix 5 - ReGAIN (Briere, 2019)
• References