The book is designed as a user-friendly textbook/manual for mental health professionals. It teaches a trauma-informed treatment approach as an organizing framework for a series of empirically supported interventions including motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioral skills training, trauma resolution, and relapse prevention. Although it notes the importance of a systemic treatment approach, the focus is on the individual component of treatment.
Introduction. Trauma-Informed Treatment for Problem Behaviors. Initial Interview. History. Motivation. Treatment Contract. Avoid High Risk. Self-Control Skills. More Skills and Strategies. Reduce Stress. Trauma Resolution. Anticipate Future Challenges. Challenging Cases. Appendices.
Biography
Ricky Greenwald, PsyD, is founder, executive director and faculty chair of the Child Trauma Institute in Greenfield, MA.
"The essence of Ricky Greenwald's book...is how to engage adolescents and adults who have been traumatized and treat the symptoms of those traumas. Greenwald describes a plethora of interventions that the clinician may implement to help the client identify the situations in which one may behave inappropriately. Clinicians will find the scripts and interventions Greenwald has developed to be useful not only for children and adolescents but, with some modification, for adults as well. This text is one that can be read and usedin a practical manner for the treatment of trauma and its symptoms." -Ronald G. Ballenger in PsycCRITIQUES Vol. 54
