
Helping Traumatized Families guides practitioners around common pitfalls and toward a series of evidence-based axioms that they can use to help families feel empowered and ultimately to thrive by developing tools for enhancing state resilience and self-regulation.

A comprehensive approach to working with families traumatized from ordeals such as criminal assaults, natural disasters, and terminal illnesses. Offers a five-phase method for empowering families so they can make peace with the past and regain control of their lives.

The new edition of the classic Helping Traumatized Families not only offers clinicians a unified, evidence-based theory of the systemic impact of traumatic stress--it also details a systematic approach to helping families heal by promoting their natural healing resources...