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

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...

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Main Author: Everett, Dr. Barbara
Other Authors: Gallop, Dr. Ruth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2000.
Subjects:
Adult child abuse victims > Mental health.
Psychic trauma in children.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Abuse > Child Abuse.
Adult child abuse victims > Mental health
Psychic trauma in children
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (347 pages)
ISBN:9781452221700
1452221707
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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