Helping Traumatized Families - Paperback

by Charles Figley (Author), Laurel Kiser (Author)

Helping Traumatized Families guides practitioners around common pitfalls and toward a series of evidence-based axioms that they can use to help families feel empowered and ultimately to thrive by developing tools for enhancing state resilience and self-regulation.

Author Biography

Charles R. Figley, PhD, is the Paul Henry Kurzweg Distinguished Chair at Tulane University. A former Marine sergeant who served early in the Vietnam War, he went on to help pioneer the modern study of trauma and many innovations in helping the traumatized, including practitioners themselves, in his more than 200 scholarly articles, chapters, and books.

Laurel J. Kiser, PhD, MBA, is an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and heads the Family Informed Trauma Treatment Center (FITT). She has been supported by NIMH and SAMHSA to develop family-based trauma interventions including Strengthening Family Coping Resources (SFCR). Her articles appear frequently in the professional literature.