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Treatment Guidelines
These links go to professional organizations.
- PTSD Treatment guidelines from ISTSS, as published in Effective Treatments for PTSD: (2nd ed.) ISBN 1606230018.
- Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - explaining a three-phase approach, from ISTSS
- Dissociative Identity Disorder and similar forms of DDNOS - Adult Treatment Guidelines
- Dissociative Identity Disorder and similar forms of DDNOS - Child/Adolescent Treatment Guidelines
Books for Clinicians
Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder
Valerie Sinason
ISBN 041519556X
Valerie Sinason
ISBN 041519556X
This book explains Dissociative Identity Disorder and the different stages of dissociation leading up to it, the conflicting models of the human mind that have been found to try and understand it, the political conflict over the subject, and, with the permission of patients, clinical accounts.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel A. van der Kolk
ISBN 0670785938
Bessel A. van der Kolk
ISBN 0670785938
Bessel A. van der Kolk reveals how trauma literally rearranges the brain's wiring—specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques, play, yoga, and other therapies.
A clinically rich, comprehensive overview of the treatment of children and adolescents who have developed dissociative symptoms in response to ongoing developmental trauma. Includes how to assess Dissociative Disorders in young people.
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
Suzette Boon, Onno van der Hart and Kathy Steele
ISBN 039370646X
Suzette Boon, Onno van der Hart and Kathy Steele
ISBN 039370646X
A training manual for patients which can be used in individual therapy or structured groups. Includes both information and exercises to improve internal communication and collaboration between dissociative parts in DID, and to address the impact of dissociation and PTSD in everyday life.
Counselling Skills for Working with Trauma: Healing from Child Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse
Christiane Sanderson
ISBN 184905326X
Christiane Sanderson
ISBN 184905326X
A skills-based manual filled with practical and applied approaches for professionals working with complex trauma. The book includes a range of issues from how to manage trauma symptoms, through to post traumatic growth and self-care.
Effective Treatments for PTSD: Practice Guidelines from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (2nd Edition)
Edna B. Foa, Judith A. Cohen, Matthew J. Friedman, Terence M. Keane
ISBN 1281963380
Edna B. Foa, Judith A. Cohen, Matthew J. Friedman, Terence M. Keane
ISBN 1281963380
Written by the ISTSS PTSD Guidelines Task Force, this is the definitive best-practice reference for professionals working with trauma. Each treatment is given an evidence-based rating and new information on child and adolescent treatment is included.
A systematic approach to trauma-informed treatment, including how to prepare clients for EMDR. The reader is led step by step through the treatment process, with hands-on exercises to learn each skill. Suitable for clinicians already trained in EMDR, those actively learning EMDR, and mental health professionals. Note that to practice EMDR requires formal supervised training.
Psychiatrist David Yeung gives detailed guidance for working with DID, including working directly with alters, and highlighting pitfalls to avoid. He elucidates practical and easily accessible techniques to help these traumatized patients heal. By processing the impact of their past traumatic memory, DID patients may reclaim their present. Contextual Case histories are given in Volume 1.
The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization
Onno van der Hart, Ellert R.S.Nijenhuis, Kathy Steele
ISBN 0393704017
Onno van der Hart, Ellert R.S.Nijenhuis, Kathy Steele
ISBN 0393704017
Three top traumatologists describe the theory of structural dissociation of the personality. A model of phase-oriented treatment is presented that focuses on the identifting and treating structural dissociation, and related maladaptive mental and behavioral actions. This book fully explains Apparently Normal Parts and Emotional Parts of the personality, and the different levels of dissociation found from PTSD through to DID.
This book describes how therapists can both facilitate constructive play therapy and intervene in posttraumatic play to help children who have been traumatized by abuse or neglect achieve a positive resolution
A practical, task-oriented, instructional manual designed to help therapists provide effective treatment for survivors of these most extreme forms of child abuse and mental manipulation. Prior knowledge of complex Dissociative Disorders and attachment is needed.
Interventions Following Mass Violence and Disasters: Strategies for Mental Health Practice
Elspeth Cameron Ritchie
ISBN 1593852568
Elspeth Cameron Ritchie
ISBN 1593852568
This essential volume presents practical guidelines for effective clinical intervention in the immediate, intermediate, and long-term aftermath of large-scale traumatic event
Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV (R) Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D) (Rev)
Marlene Steinberg
ISBN 0880488611
Marlene Steinberg
ISBN 0880488611
This very detailed interview provides clinicians with clear guidance for assessing all Dissociative Disorders and rating their severity. Clinical examples and given and carefully explained. Designed to be used by trained clinicians, and in conjunction with the SCID-D-R 5 book packs.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of dissociative symptoms and disorders, as well as an introduction to the use of the SCID-D- a diagnostic interview for the dissociative disorders. It includes chapters on differential diagnosis, a discussion of the relationship between dissociation and trauma, and a sample patient interview.
Posttraumatic and Acute Stress Disorders: The Latest Assessment and Treatment Strategies
Matthew J. Friedman
ISBN 1887537228
Matthew J. Friedman
ISBN 1887537228
Who is at risk for developing PTSD? What is the likelihood of recovery? What is the difference between PTSD and other acute stress disorders? How do you differentiate PTSD from other disorders with similar symptoms? This book provides answers to these questions.
Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders (2nd Ed)
James A. Chu
ISBN 0470768746
James A. Chu
ISBN 0470768746
Updated to include developments in the treatment of complex PTSD, neurobiology, crisis management, and psychopharmacology, plus the impact of early attachment relationships, and disorganized attachment. An essential guide for every therapist working with clients who have suffered severe trauma.
A step-by-step guide to teaching clients four sets of skills: interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness.
Herman draws on her own cutting-edge research in domestic violence as well as on the vast literature of combat veterans and victims of political terror, to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism. The book puts individual experience in a broader political frame, arguing that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context.
Professionals often suffer from secondary traumatic stress, also known as vicarious traumatization or compassion fatigue. This book aids the identification, assessment, and treatment of compassion fatigue.
Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders (Adults): An Evidence-Based Guide
Christine A. Courtois, Julian D. Ford (Eds)
ISBN 1606237322
Christine A. Courtois, Julian D. Ford (Eds)
ISBN 1606237322
Contributors review the research that supports the conceptualization of complex traumatic stress as distinct from PTSD. They explore the pathways by which chronic trauma can affect psychological development, attachment security, and adult relationships.
Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Scientific Foundations and Therapeutic Models
Julian D. Ford, Christine A. Courtois (Eds)
ISBN 1462509495
Julian D. Ford, Christine A. Courtois (Eds)
ISBN 1462509495
Examines the nature of complex psychological trauma in children and adolescents and the clinical challenges it presents. Includes clinical innovations and cutting-edge research on child and adolescent brain development, attachment, and emotion regulation, and discusses diagnostic criteria, including those from DSM-IV and DSM-5
Chapters thoroughly describe available therapies, psychosocial and pharmalogical treatment options, and use illustrative case examples to demonstrate the treatments in action. The norms and values of military culture are discussed. Also addresses common co-occurring problems in veterans, such as traumatic brain injury and substance abuse.
Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Relational Approach
Elizabeth F. Howell
ISBN 0415994977
Elizabeth F. Howell
ISBN 0415994977
This book explains dissociation theory and research, including the dynamic unconscious, trauma theory, attachment, and neuroscience. It covers identifying and diagnosising Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and outlines a phase-oriented treatment plan, which includes facilitating a co-constructed therapeutic relationship, emphasizing the multiplicity of transferences, countertransferences, and kinds of potential enactments.
Understanding Military Sexual Trauma: A guide for those who work with MST survivors
Miette Wells, Doug Wells
ISBN 0983706522
Miette Wells, Doug Wells
ISBN 0983706522
Unfortunately, many women and men leave the military with conflicting emotional and physical feelings about their “honorable endeavor,” as betrayal, disloyalty, pain, wounds, mistrust, and the list continues. The experiences are horrific, shocking, appalling, awful, repulsive and atrocious. Yet, most were not inflicted by some foreign enemy, but within the very ranks they served, by their brothers and/or sisters-in-arms.
Working with Relational and Developmental Trauma in Children and Adolescents
Karen Treisman
ISBN 1138935298
Karen Treisman
ISBN 1138935298
This book focuses on trauma, loss and disrupted attachment on babies, children, adolescents, and the systems around them. The impact of relational and developmental trauma and toxic stress on children's bodies, brains, relationships, behaviours, cognitions, and emotions is explored. Includes reflective exercises, case studies, practical applications and therapeutic strategies. With chapters on wider organisational and systemic dynamics, strength-based practices and the intergenerational transmission of relational trauma.
See also:
- Books for survivors of trauma or people with dissociative disorders
- Books for partners, family or friends
Articles
- Best practices for trauma professionals ISTSS
- Bibliography on Trauma Dissociation, recommended by the ISST-D
- Articles on Dissociation, recommended by the ISST-D
- Articles on Trauma, recommended by the ISST-D
Organizations
- International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)
- National Center for PTSD US department of Veterans Affairs
- International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISST-D)
Experts' Websites
These links go to external websites.
- Dr Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis co-author of The Haunted Self, Structural Dissociation model of Trauma and Dissociative disorders.
- Dr Jennifer J. Freyd Creator of Betrayal Trauma Theory and editor of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. Extensive research on traumatic amnesia.
- Dr Bethany Brand Clinical Psychologist and top researcher in Dissociation
- Dr Marlene Steinberg author of Stranger in the Mirror and the SCID-D clinical interview for Dissociative Disorders, and Stranger in the Mirror.
