Briere (psychiatry and psychology, U. of Southern California) and Scott (clinical psychiatry, U. of Southern California) offer a practical guide to trauma treatment that employs a general, overarching approach to the ongoing processing of traumatic memories rather than an overly simplistic model that may address only a portion of necessary care. They describe trauma and its effects, assessment of trauma and posttraumatic outcomes, and clinical interventions in terms of issues, education, distress reduction and affect regulation training, cognitive interventions, emotional processing, increasing identity and relational functioning. They also describe the treatment of the effects of acute trauma and devote significant space to descriptions of the biology and psychopharmacology of trauma. They include texts of the Initial Trauma Review-3 and the Brief Interview for Posttraumatic Disorders. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)