Child Abuse Trauma: Theory and Treatment of the Lasting Effects (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803937130)

This volume considers the unique and overlapping long-term effects of all major forms of child maltreatment. The author integrates information on seven types of child abuse and neglect - ranging from sexual and physical abuse to mistreatment by alcoholic or drug-addicted parents - and outlines the complex ways in which abuse impacts on later psychosocial functioning.

Briere reframes traditional notions of psychopathology and describes treatment approaches to abuse-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, interpersonal dysfunction, self-destructive behaviour, impaired self-reference and borderline personality disorder. Child Abuse Trauma will be an invaluable resource for abuse specialists and for general therap

Author: John Briere, Briere
ISBN-10: 080393713X
ISBN-13: 9780803937130
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Language: English
Published: 09/21/1992
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.01w x 0.62d