Trauma Psychology:

Issues in Violence, Disaster,

Health, and Illness
Edited by
Elizabeth K. Carll, PhD
Two Volumes
Volume 1: Violence and Disaster
Volume 2: Health and Illness

Published by Greenwood Praeger

Also available at amazon.com

The volumes offer a gripping overview, with case examples, intervention and policy
recommended for diverse traumatic events spanning natural disasters, violence, accidents,
and chronic health and social issues.
Learn how to intervene in 24 types of traumatic events including:

● Domestic Violence ● Stalking ● Workplace Violence ● Kidnap ● Motor Vehicle Accidents

● Pain ● Children and War ● Fires ● Torture ● Terrorism ● Floods ● Burns ● AIDS
● Spinal Cord Injury ● Children and Medical Illness ● Anesthesia Awareness

Reviews/Endorsements:

These two volumes on "Trauma Psychology: Issues in Violence, Disaster, Health, and Illness", aptly
edited by Elizabeth Carll, represent an impressive array of research, practice, and public policy
recommendations spanning the entire range of human trauma. It is must reading for everyone in
health services, the media, professionals in many disciplines, and especially politicians. I found it to
be a treasure trove of vital information not only about core issues in violence and disasters, both
natural and malevolent, but equally so about treatment, prevention, and resilience.

Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Stanford University
Author of "The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil" (Random House)

“Trauma Psychology: Issues in Violence, Disaster, Health and Illness”offers an important advance in
our understanding of the many arenas in which trauma can occur and the therapeutic steps and
public policy initiatives that can be taken to help survivors recover and heal.

Sybil Carrère, Ph.D.

Director, Institute for Child Development and Family Relations
California State University San Bernardino

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Additional Reviews on Reverse Side of Page

“Trauma Psychology: Issues in Violence, Disaster, Health and Illness”is a unique, important, timely,
ground-breaking two volume set, bringing to light key issues and specific treatment and policy
recommendations surrounding a wide range of traumas. Refreshing in its attention to many long-
neglected traumatic experiences, including challenges associated with a variety of serious illnesses
and injuries, “Trauma Psychology”makes a significant contribution to this rapidly growing field.

Michelle D. Sherman, Ph.D.

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Author of "Finding My Way: A Teen's Guide to Living with a Parent Who Has
Experienced Trauma"
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“Trauma Psychology Issues in Violence, Disaster, Health, and Illness”addresses the oft-neglected
psychological aftermath of trauma from the useful perspective of the varieties of traumatic
experience. Leading experts authoritatively discuss the phenomenology and treatment of the
emotional residue of trauma with an intellectually satisfying combination of data and clinical
wisdom. The two volumes distill the resilience that comes from carefully studying and healing
humans in harm's way

David Spiegel, M.D.

Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine
Co-Editor, "Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiology and Treatment"
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These 2 volumes of "Trauma Psychology: Issues in Violence, Disaster, Health, and Illness" break new
ground in articulating current thinking and approaches to a new field of public and clinical concern.
They would make a useful text for advanced undergraduates, beginning graduate level students, as
well as professionals who are in the mental health fields e.g. firemen, police etc who deal with
trauma as part of their normal activities.

Leonard Diller, PhD

Director of Psychology
Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and Rehabilitation
Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
NYU School of Medicine (New York University)
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Dr. Carll's book is essential reading in understanding the dynamics of human psychology when
exposed to violence, disaster and trauma, and for developing life strategies in coping with these very
real issues.

Jack J. Cambria
Commanding Officer
NYPD Hostage Negotiation Team (New York Police Department)
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Dr. Elizabeth Carll is an internationally recognized psychologist in private practice in Long

Island, New York, an author, and consultant to organizations and corporations. She is a United
Nations representative for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies; Chair of the
UN NGO Committee on Mental Health; a past president of the Media Psychology Division of
the American Psychological Association and serves on the boards a variety of organizations.
Contact information: Tel: 631-754-2424, Email: ecarll@optonline.net