Back to Book List Trauma: General
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Author |
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Transforming the Legacy: Couple Therapy with Survivors of Childhood Trauma |
Basham, Kathryn |
For clinician |
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The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (and Workbook) |
Bass, Ellen & Davis, Laura |
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Adult Children of Abusive Parents: A Healing Program for Those Who Have Been Physically, Sexually, or Emotionally Abused |
Farmer, Steven |
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Body Sense: The Science and Practice of Embodied Self-Awareness |
Fogel, Alan |
Provides explanation of brain-body connections in trauma; case studies, based on science to explain the effects and treatment of brain body connections; describes the development of embodied self-awareness |
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Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and About Adults Abused As Children |
Gil, Eliana |
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Trauma and Recovery |
Hermann, Judith |
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Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body |
Levine, Peter |
All books by Peter Levine recommended |
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Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma |
Levine, Peter & Frederick, Ann |
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In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness |
Levine, Peter & Mate, Gabor |
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I Can't Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors |
Matsakis, Aphrodite |
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The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness |
Miller, Alice |
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Prisoners of Childhood: The Drama of the Gifted Child and the Search for the True Self |
Miller, Alice & Ward, Ruth |
“Gifted Child” refers to trauma survivor |
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If You Had Controlling Parents: How to Make Peace with Your Past and Take Your |
Neuharth, Dan |
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Writing To Heal |
Pennebaker, James |
Research actually focuses more on using writing to heal from trauma. |
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The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment |
Rothschild, Babette |
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Secrets, Lies, Betrayals: How the Body holds the Secrets of A Life, and How to Unlock Them |
Scharff, Maggie |
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Miss America By Day: Lessons Learned from Ultimate Betrayals and Unconditional Love |
Van Derbur, Marilyn |
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Growing Beyond Survival - a Self-Help Toolkit for Managing Traumatic Stress |
Vermillyea, Elizabeth G. |
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Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families |
Whitfield, Charles |
Trauma: ADDICTION
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Author |
Comments |
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Trauma and the Twelve Steps: A Complete Guide for Enhancing Recovery |
Marich, Jamie |
Bullying
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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http://www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov |
Great website that kids can use |
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The Smart Girls Guide to Friendship Troubles |
American Girl Company |
And other titles |
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The Berenstain Bears and the Bully |
Berenstain, Stan & Berenstain, Jan |
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Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman’s Inspirational True Story |
Blanco, Jodee |
Author is a successful woman who recounts a history of brutal bullying |
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Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child |
Brooks, Robert & Goldstein, Sam |
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The Kids' Guide to Working Out Conflicts: How to Keep Cool, Stay Safe, and Get Along |
Drew, Naomi |
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Quaking |
Erskine, Kathryn |
About a teen dealing with bullying- very readable |
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Giving the Love that Heals: For Parents |
Hendrix, Harville |
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Stick Up For Yourself! Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power & Positive Self-Esteem |
Kaufman, Geshen & Raphael, Lev |
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My Secret Bully |
Ludwig, Trudy |
Beautifully illustrated, reads in one sitting and highlights the powerfully hurtful way pre-adolescent and adolescent girls wield their social power that often falls under the radar for parents and school administrators |
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Raising an Optimistic Child: A Proven Plan for Depression-Proofing Young Children--For Life |
Murray, Bob & Fortinberry, Alicia |
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Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain |
Romain, Trevor |
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The Optimistic Child: Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression & Build Lifelong Resilience |
Seligman, Martin |
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www.backoffbully.com |
Twemlow, Stuart |
Analyst and martial artist who specializes in the dynamics of bullying |
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Queen Bees and Wannabees |
Wiseman, Rosalind |
Book “Mean Girls” is based on; website helpful: http://rosalindwiseman.com |
Children & Parenting
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Author |
Comments |
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Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child |
Brooks, Robert & Goldstein, Sam |
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Giving the Love that Heals: For Parents |
Hendrix, Harville |
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Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience |
Levine, Peter |
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Raising an Optimistic Child: A Proven Plan for Depression-Proofing Young Children--For Life |
Murray, Bob & Fortinberry, Alicia |
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The Optimistic Child: Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression & Build Lifelong Resilience |
Seligman, Martin |
Children's books
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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The Smart Girls Guide to Friendship Troubles |
American Girl Company |
And other titles |
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The Berenstain Bears Learn about Strangers |
Berenstain, Stan & Berenstain, Jan |
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The Berenstain Bears and the Bully |
Berenstain, Stan & Berenstain, Jan |
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Why is Dad So Mad? |
Kastle, Seth |
Author is a retired army father to explain combat PTSD to his kids |
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How I Learned To Love Geography |
Shulevitz, Uri |
Children’s book on the Holocaust |
Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence: Perpetrators
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics |
Bancroft, Lundy |
About male batterers, psychology behind it is suitable for all couple subtypes |
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Stop Hurting the Woman You Love: Breaking the Cycle of Abusive Behavior |
Donaldson, Charlie & Flood, Randy |
Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence: Survivors
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Author |
Comments |
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www.narcissisticabuse.com/ |
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X That Ex: Making a Clean Break When the Relationship is Over |
Carmichael, Kristin |
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It's My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship or Domestic Violence |
Dugan, Meg & Hock, Roger |
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The Emotionally Abused Woman |
Engel, Beverly |
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The Emotionally Abusive Relationship |
Engel, Beverly |
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Controlling People |
Evans, Patricia |
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The Verbally Abusive Relationship |
Evans, Patricia |
CAUDTION: the book does a good enough job explaining the dynamic but the suggestions for responding are naive and may escalate the abuse |
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Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and |
Forward, Susan |
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Getting Out: Life Stories of Women Who Left Abusive Men |
Goetting, Ann |
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When Men Batter Women |
Gottman, John & Jacobsen, Neil |
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How to Break Your Addiction to a Person: When-and Why- Love Doesn’t Work |
Halpern, Howard |
Includes case studies; helpful for those struggling to leave unhealthy/abusive relationships |
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Why Does He Do That? |
Lundy Bancroft |
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Poems for Surviving: Breakup, Abuse and Divorce |
Martin, Marlena |
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Getting Free: You Can End Abuse and Take Back Your Life |
NiCarthy, Ginny |
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Family and Friends’ Guide to Domestic Violence: How to Listen, Talk, and Take Action When Someone You Care About is Being Abused |
Weiss, Elaine |
Holocaust Survivors
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors |
Epstein, Helen |
An overview of some of the issues that survivors' children have encountered |
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Where She Came from: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History |
Epstein, Helen |
Three generations of Czech-Jewish women--from the 19th century to the Holocaust and beyond |
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Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir |
Gilbert-Lurie, Leslie |
Explores how an emotional legacy has shaped three generations of lives |
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How I Learned To Love Geography |
Shulevitz, Uri |
Children’s book |
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale |
Spiegelman, Art |
Graphic novel, excellent reviews |
For Partners
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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Adult Children of Abusive Parents: A Healing Program for Those Who Have Been Physically, Sexually, or Emotionally Abused |
Farmer, Steven |
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Invisible Girls: The Truth about Sexual Abuse |
Feuereisen, Patti |
Anecdotal, with comments by the author in each chapter, the last third of the book is of particular help- lists print/web resources, hotlines, legal options and other resources for abuse victims and their advocates; relevant to all genders. |
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Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and About Adults Abused As Children |
Gil, Eliana |
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The Mosaic Mind: Empowering the Tormented Selves of Child Abuse Survivors |
Goulding, Regina & Schwartz, Richard |
Internal Family Systems perspective- good for clinician, readable for a layperson with some parts more text-like |
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What About Me? A Guide for Men Helping Female Partners Deal with Childhood |
Grant Cameron |
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Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child |
Laura Davis |
Recommended by many members |
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Trust after Trauma: A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those who Love Them |
Matsakis, Aphrodite |
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Loving Someone with PTSD |
Matsakis, Aphrodite |
Sex
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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It's Not Him It's You |
Berman, Laura |
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What About Me? A Guide for Men Helping Female Partners Deal with Childhood |
Cameron, Grant |
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Allies In Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child |
Davis, Laura |
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Allies in Healing |
Davis, Laura |
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Outgrowing the Pain Together |
Gil, Eliana |
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Ghosts in the bedroom – a guide for partners of incest survivors |
Graber, Ken |
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The Survivor's Guide to Sex: How to Have an Empowered Sex Life After Child Sexual Abuse |
Haines, Staci |
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Hot Monogamy |
Love, Pat |
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The Sexual Healing Journey; A Guide to Survivors of Sexual Abuse |
Maltz, Wendy |
Recommended by many members |
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Trust After Trauma |
Matsakis, Aphrodite |
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The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment |
Rothschild, Babette |
Using Mindfulness/Mind-Body Work
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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Body Sense: The Science and Practice of Embodied Self-Awareness |
Fogel, Alan |
Provides explanation of brain-body connections in trauma; case studies, based on science to explain the effects and treatment of brain body connections; describes the development of embodied self-awareness |
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The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion |
Germer, Christopher |
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Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body |
Levine, Peter |
All books by Peter Levine recommended |
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In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness |
Levine, Peter & Mate, Gabor |
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The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment |
Rothschild, Babette |
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Secrets, Lies, Betrayals: How the Body holds the Secrets of a Life, and How to Unlock Them |
Scharff, Maggie |
vicarious trauma/Compassion Fatigue
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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Burnout and Compassion Fatigue: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals and Care Givers |
Florio, Christine |
Basic overview to recognize and address symptoms |
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The Therapist's Workbook: Self-Assessment, Self-Care, and Self-Improvement Exercises for Mental Health Professionals |
Kottler, Jeffrey |
Designed to facilitate renewal, growth, and change, for the clinician |
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Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion and Vicarious Trauma |
Rothschild, Babette |
Explores how empathy can jeopardize a therapist's well-being, provides coping strategies |
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Secondary Traumatic Stress: Self Care Issues for Clinicians, Researchers, and Educators |
Stamm, B. Hundall |
Addresses prevention and treatment |
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Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others |
Van Dernoot Lipsky, Laura & Burke, Connie |
Excellent reviews, practical guide for any professional exposed to trauma |