Dr. Miller's Counseling Crime Victims is extremely effective...and it will occupy a central spot on my bookshelf...It is really a golden find.

--Society for Police and Criminal Psychology

Here is the gold standard - the book for mental health clinicians helping crime victims sort through one of life's most difficult and traumatic experiences.--Richard L. Levenson, Jr., Psy.D., CTS
Licensed Psychologist, New York State

As more and more mental health professionals are becoming involved in the criminal justice system - as social service providers, victim advocates, court liaisons, expert witnesses, and clinical therapists - there has not been a commensurate improvement in the quality of text material to address this expanding and diverse field. Until now, students and practicing professionals have had to content themselves with either overly broad texts on criminology or trauma theory, or exceeding narrow tracts on one or another sub-area of victim services.

Counseling Crime Victims provides a unique approach to helping victims of crime. By distilling and combining the best insights and lessons from the fields of criminology, victimology, trauma psychology, law enforcement, and psychotherapy, this book presents an integrated model of intervention for students and working mental health professionals in the criminal justice system. The book blends solid empirical research scholarship with practical, hit-the-ground-running recommendations that mental health professionals can begin using immediately in their daily work with victims.

Counseling Crime Victims is a practical guide and reference book that working mental health clinicians will consult again and again in their daily practices. This book will also be of use to attorneys, judges, law enforcement officers, social service providers and others who work with crime victims in the criminal justice system. It can also serve as a college- and graduate-level text for courses in Psychology and Criminal Justice.

Victim assistance is becoming a full-fledged field for social workers and counselors
A practical, hands-on guide which offers counselors techniques for dealing with victims of a wide variety of crimes
Shows counselors how to guide their clients through the legal and judicial system

Contents

Part I: Crime Victimization: Patterns, Reactions, and Clinical Syndromes

Crime and Crime Victims: The Clinical and Social Context
Psychological Reactions to Crime Victimization: Posttraumatic Symptoms and Syndromes
Psychological Disorders Associated with Crime Victimization
Crime Victim Trauma: Confounding Symptoms and Syndromes

Part II: Foundatinos of Practucak and Clinical Helping Strategies for Crime Victims

On-Scene Crisis Intervention: Guidelines for Law Enforcement, Emergency Services, and Mental Health Responders
Symptom Management and Short-Term Mental Health Stabilization
Counseling and Psychotherapy of Crime Victims
Family Survivors of Homicide: Symptoms, Syndromes, and Practical Interventions
Family Survivors of Homicide: Psychotherapeutic Strategies

Part III: Special Victims: Applications of Crime Victim Counseling and Therapy to Populations at Risk

Rape and Sexual Assault
Domestic Violence
Workplace Violence
Bullying and School Violence
Victims of Terrorism
Our Own Medicine: Counseling and Psychotherapy of Mental Health Professionals
Your Day in Court: Crime Victims, Mental Health Clinicians, and the Legal System

Authors

Laurence Miller, PhD, is a clinical and forensic psychologist based in Boca Raton, Florida. Dr. Miller is the police psychologist for the West Palm Beach Police Department and mental health advisor for Troop L of the Florida Highway Patrol. He is a forensic psychological examiner for the Palm Beach County Court and a consultant with Palm Beach County Victim Services. Dr. Miller serves as an expert witness in civil and criminal cases, and is a consulting psychologist with several regional and national law enforcement agencies, government organizations, and private corporations.

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