Grief and Bereavement

For many bereaved parents, the care provided by health professionals at birth has a crucial effect on their response to a death. This interactive workbook is clearly applied to practice and is designed to help practitioners deliver effective care to women, and their partners and families, who have experienced childbirth-related bereavement.

Written by two highly educated and experienced midwifery lecturers, this practical and evidence-based workbook is a valuable resource for all midwives, neonatal nurses and support workers who work with women in the perinatal period. Instructors teaching relevant courses can request a complimentary exam copy.

NEW      Strengthening Family Coping Resources (SFCR) uses a skill-building, multi-family group framework to teach constructive resources to families who have a high exposure to stress and trauma. As an intervention for high-risk families, SFCR can cause a reduction in symptoms of traumatic distress and behavior problems and help families demonstrate higher functioning. The SFCR manual is based on a systemic, family approach and uses empirically-supported trauma treatment that focuses on family ritual, storytelling, and narration, which improves communication and understanding within family members. The manual is organized into three accessible parts:
 

New   This volume is the logical follow-up to the military treatment handbook: Living and Surviving in Harm’s Way. Sharon Freeman Clevenger, Laurence Miller, Bret Moore, and Arthur Freeman return with this dynamic handbook ideal for law enforcement agencies interested in the psychological health of their officers. Contributors include law enforcement officers with diverse experiences, making this handbook accessible to readers from law enforcement backgrounds. This authoritative, comprehensive, and critical volume on the psychological aspects of police work is a must for anyone affiliated with law enforcement.
 

NEW    Trauma in Schools and Communities uses the power of first-hand, autobiographical narratives to illustrate the advantages and pitfalls of specific interventions implemented in the wake of tragedies.

NEW     Trauma-Attachment Tangle offers informative and inspiring clinical stories of children who have complex trauma and attachment issues from experiences such as adoption, hospitalization, or death of a parent. Some of these children display puzzling or extreme symptoms like prolonged tantrums, self-hatred, attacking their parents or being fearful of common things like lights, solid foods or clothing.
 

Browse the new Psychology and Mental Health Special Issues as Books catalog. A special issue as a book (SPIB) is a special themed issue of a journal which is republished as a book. SPIBs give you the opportunity to read just the special issue which interests you without having to subscribe to the journal.

Routledge Mental Health and Psychology Press is pleased to offer new, affordable paperback versions of key classic texts.