Treating the Trauma of Rape: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for PTSD (Hardcover)

"This volume exemplifies manualized treatment. The authors not only present a core set of interventions in detail but also reference a range of assessment techniques and include a structured, comprehensive evaluation....In addition, they give detailed outlines of treatment on a session-by-session basis....They include extensive case material as well as a number of useful handouts....Given the authors' empirical grounding, clear thinking, lucid writing, and extensive clinical experience, this volume should be of great value to any therapist who is treating PTSD-regardless of theoretical bent. There is no more straightforward, empirically based approach to treating psychological trauma." --Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

"This is an impressive book which combines detailed clinical information about the nature of post-trauma reactions and practical guidelines on carrying out cognitive-behavioral treatment with rape victims....This is an excellent treatment manual not only for professionals involved with rape victims; the therapeutic approach described is appropriate for other trauma victims as well." --British Journal of Psychiatry

"The authors succeed in their aims to describe PTSD, review the research on treatment, and describe a program for recovery. In addition, Treating the Trauma of Rape is imbued with the sense of compassion that they bring to the individuals they treat. This book will be particularly useful to psychologists, psychiatrists, crisis workers, social workers, and others who respond to victims of violence....[The authors] succeed in helping all of us who work with victims of trauma develop a treatment approach that we can use not only to understand our patients' suffering but also to teach them that recovery can and does occur." --Psychiatric Services

"[An] invaluable book...written by two internationally known experts in the field of PTSD treatment....This book is an excellent training tool for both experienced and novice therapists, with such useful features as detailed session plans, compelling case examples, treatment and component rationales, and sample client handouts. Psychotherapy researchers, especially those studying trauma and PTSD, will benefit....The clarity of writing on theory and practice facilitate the translation of the work into specific hypotheses, with identifiable mechanisms of change and process outcomes....For clinicians and researchers alike, this book is an outstanding resource." --Psychotherapy Research

"The strength of this book is that over half of it is devoted to the step-by-step guides to treatment....sex and marital therapists who sometimes have to deal with clients with a history of rape or other sexual assault will find this book a handy guide." --Sexual & Marital Therapy

"This is difficult and stressful work and the authors are to be congratulated on their endurance and valuable achievements." --Behaviour Research & Therapy

"Although Foa and Rothbaum are known above all for their achievements as researchers, their book also displays the compassion and refined sensitivity that are hallmarks of accomplished clinicians....[This] is a work that practitioners will find to be a useful guide for treating the effects of a broad range of traumatic incidents beyond rape itself. It contains coverage of a spectrum of cognitive-behavioral interventions for PTSD at a level of detail that is not readily available elsewhere. This book should unquestionably, therefore, be part of the personal reference library of any practitioner who regularly treats clients with a diagnosis of PTSD." --Psychotherapy in Private Practice

"Foa and Rothbaum supply guides for implementing a program that can be tailored to individual clients' needs....Concise and comprehensive, the book will be useful to both novice and experienced therapist; it would also be a great training text, as well as helpful in dealing with PTSD arising from causes other than rape. It is a valuable contribution to the arena of PTSD intervention, well worth its price." --Readings