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