"Treating Addicted Survivors of Trauma deserves to become a basic resource for clinicians who work with addicted survivors of trauma. It is specific yet adaptable to a variety of therapeutic approaches. It is authoritative yet remarkably respectful of addicted survivors. The tone, as well as the content, of this book make it abundantly clear that the authors have 'been there' both as survivors and as therapists." —Marge Eide, Librarian, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
"Despite a growing awareness of the links between childhood trauma and addictive behavior, few systematic clinical strategies have been developed for helping this client population. In this first-rate book Katie Evans and J. Michael Sullivan try to fill this gap. They offer a well-reasoned, conceptually sound and thoroughly referenced clinical model for working with addicted adult and adolescent survivors of childhood psychological and physical trauma.... It is the best clinical handbook for working with addicted survivors of trauma that I have come across.... Students and practicing clinicians will discover a gold mine of ideas in this book. Clinical researchers will find a coherent treatment model, which they can examine and subject to empirical verification." —Meredith Hanson, DSW, Columbia University School of Social work, New York, NY
"Incisive and sensitive at the same time; the best clinical guide of its kind."
—James Fine, MD, SUNY Health Science Center of Brooklyn, Clinical Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Director, Addictive Disease Hospital
"Contains a well-referenced, practical therapeutic method for engaging, understanding, and treating this population. The book includes a great deal of case material which is approached theoretically from a variety of well-described and referenced models, such that the reader understands both the why and the how of dealing with common difficult clinical situations. As usual, Evans and Sullivan supply tables, charts, and other materials which can be utilized directly in the clinical setting by both therapist and client. While therapists with 12-step and other addiction backgrounds will find this approach friendly and consistent, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other therapists will find it equally useful, sophisticated and effective." —Richard Ries, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Washington Medical School, and Director, Dual Disorder Programs, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
"This book has vitality and clinical savvy. It is rich in examples with many pearls of wisdom sprinkled throughout. I think it will appeal to both clinicians with a general practice and specialists in trauma and/or substance abuse." —Joan Ellen Zweben, PhD, Executive Director, The 14th Street Clinic & Medical Group and East Bay Community Recovery Project, Oakland, California; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California Medical School, San Francisco
"This book fills an important gap in the existing literature on how to treat clients who present with these co-existing issues. It also presents a philosophy of treatment which is egalitarian, feminist, victim-sensitive and non-blaming. Though written for clinicians, the book contains information which may be helpful for survivors struggling with issues of alcohol and/or drug issues."
This book represents a valuable new resource for the diagnosis and treatment of survivors of childhood trauma who are also chemically dependent. The purpose is to provide an understandable, practical, and well-integrated model for the treatment of adults and adolescents dually diagnosed as survivors of childhood trauma and chemically dependent. Both 12-step recovery program principles and proven psychotherapeutic strategies are used to treat the individual and family. The book meets its overall objective to address this important and needed topic area. Intended for mental health and substance abuse professionals, the book will be a useful aid in the development and implementation of effective therapeutic strategies for the complex issues involved in resolution of childhood trauma and chemical dependency. The authors are very solid and credible in this area. The book includes numerous tables and clinical examples that greatly contribute to the summary and clarification of principles and therapeutic strategies. The references are extensive and up-to-date. The appendixes are especially useful in providing dual diagnosis assessment tools and concrete, specific, symptom-driven treatment guidelines. This is a very useful book for the mental health and substance abuse professional about how to effectively work with clients who present coexisting issues of surviving childhood trauma and chemical dependency, and with their families. The authors bring together mental health and developmental paradigms and the disease model of addiction in a comprehensive effort to fill the need that has existed on how to simultaneously deal with both the issues surrounding childhood trauma and chemicaldependency. The book provides an easy-to-implement and persuasive treatment model combining proven psychotherapeutic techniques with 12-step recovery program principles and practices. This book represents a significant addition to the effective treatment of a difficult client population.
