Counseling crime victims
Subtitle: practical strategies for mental health professionals
By: Laurence Miller.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780826115195
Subjects: Victims of crimes -- Mental health; Victims of crimes -- Mental health services; Crisis intervention (Mental health services); Crime Victims -- psychology; Counseling -- methods; Psychotherapy -- methods; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- therapy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crime and crime victims: the clinical and social context; title: Psychological reactions to crime victimization: posttraumatic symptoms and syndromes; title: Psychological disorders associated with crime victimization; title: Crime victim trauma: confounding symptoms and syndromes; title: On-scene crisis intervention: guidelines for law enforcement, emergency services, and mental; title: Symptom management and short-term mental health stabilization; title: Counseling and psychotherapy of crime victims; title: Family survivors of homicide: symptoms, syndromes, and practical interventions; title: Family survivors of homicide: psychotherapeutic strategies; title: Rape and sexual assault; title: Domestic violence; title: Workplace violence; title: Bullying and school violence; title: Victims of terrorism; title: Our own medicine: counseling and psychotherapy of mental health professionals; title: Your day in court: crime victims, mental health clinicians, and the legal system.