A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions

A Practical Approach to Trauma is a comprehensive textbook on psychological trauma, covering a wide array of topics, including historical and intergenerational trauma, pandemics and disasters, racial trauma, and sexual and interpersonal violence. This book is ideal for students seeking to master the core elements of psychological trauma, as well as clinicians seeking to understand and utilize solutions and strengths-based approaches to trauma treatment.

About the Author

Priscilla Dass-Brailsford , a graduate of Harvard University, is a clinical psychologist, professor, and faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at Georgetown University. She studies the effects of trauma, violence, abuse, and other stressful events, and she is particularly interested in whether individuals from historically oppressed or stigmatized groups experience unique stressors or exhibit culturally specific coping processes. Clinically, she has expertise in the treatment of psychological trauma. She is a PTSD expert for the judicial system and has testified in PTSD cases. She is an APA Fellow of Divisions 17, 29, 32, 35, 42, 45, and 56, and has held several APA positions including Past Chair of the Fellows and Multicultural Committee for APA's Trauma Division.