Trauma Counseling, Second Edition: Theories and Interventions for Managing Trauma, Stress, Crisis, and Disaster

The only comprehensive text to focus on trauma, stress, crisis, and disaster counseling from a clinical practice perspective

This overarching text, intended both for mental health practitioners-in-training and for practicing clinicians, focuses on the impact of stress, crisis, trauma, and disaster on diverse populations across the lifespan as well as on effective treatment strategies. The second edition is newly grounded in a "trauma scaffold," providing foundational information that therapists can build upon, step-by-step, to treat individuals affected by more complex trauma events. This resource newly addresses the mental health implications of COVID-19, which has had an enormous impact on multitudes of people since the beginning of the pandemic, its repercussions likely to continue for some time into the future. The text also is updated to provide the most recent diagnostic information regarding trauma in the DSM-5. Two new chapters address the confluence of crises related to anthropogenic climate change and the effects of mass violence.

This unrivalled resource emphasizes stress management and crisis intervention skills as important building blocks for working with more complex issues of trauma and disaster. It underscores the idea that trauma must be approached from multiple perspectives and in multiple dimensions encompassing individual, community, societal, and systemic implications along with multicultural and diversity frames of reference. The text integrates the latest findings from neuropsychology and psychopharmacology with an emphasis on Polyvagal Theory. Additionally, the text highlights the importance of clinical supervision in trauma care and examines ethical dimensions and the need for self-care among trauma counselors. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.

New to the Second Edition:

• Reconceptualizes the text with the concept of a "Trauma Scaffold" as a foundation upon which to understand and develop treatment for increasingly complex trauma events
• Addresses the COVID-19 pandemic and its profound effect on the mental health of vast numbers of people
• Includes two new chapters on the confluence of crises related to anthropogenic climate change and the effects of mass violence
• Includes PowerPoint slides to accompany an updated Instructor's Manual

Key Features:

• Delivers both introductory and advanced clinical information addressing complex trauma
• Addresses trauma from a bioecological framework with emphasis on trauma-informed practices, multicultural pluralism, diversity, and social justice
• Considers neurobiological responses to trauma with new research and the contributions of Polyvagal Theory
• Examines individual, familial, community, society, and systemic understandings of stress, crisis, trauma, and disaster
• Includes a wealth of resources for further study, text boxes, and case studies to reinforce learning

Author: Lisa López Levers
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 03/21/2022
Pages: 578
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.22lbs
Size: 10.08h x 7.08w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9780826150844

About the Author
Lopez Levers, Lisa: - Lisa Lopez Levers, Ph.D., LPPC-S, LPC, CRC, NCC is the Rev. Francis Philben, C. S. Sp. Endowed Chair in African Studies and Professor of Counselor Education & Supervision in the Department of Counseling, Psychology, and Special Education in the School of Education at Duquesne University. She has had nearly 40 years of clinical mental health counseling experience and has taught numerous clinical graduate courses over the last 25 years, including courses at Duquesne's CACREP-accredited Clinical Mental Health Counseling master's program. She is the editor of the best-selling textbook Trauma Counseling: Theories and Interventions (SPC, 2011) and has published peer-reviewed research in such peer-reviewed publications as the Journal of Mental Health Counseling, Journal of Counseling and Development, Rehabilitation Education... She was currently serving as a member of the Council on Rehabilitation Education (CORE) Board of Directors for a four-year term, 2014-2018. She has taught and consulted extensively in Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Lesotho since serving as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Botswana in 2003-2004.

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