New Faculty Book Covers Contextual Trauma Therapy

College of Psychology Professor Steven Gold’s new book, Contextual Trauma Therapy:

Overcoming Traumatization and Reaching Full Potential, builds on decades of research and experience from an NSU clinic.

Gold’s expertise includes working with adult survivors of prolonged childhood abuse (PCA) who experience difficulties in interpersonal relationships, and difficulty modulating emotional reactions and impulses. This is known as complex PTSD, or C-PTSD.

“It’s a broader set of difficulties often that interfere on a much broader level with general functioning,” Gold said. “The idea has been that in contrast to PTSD which can result from a single traumatic event, people with C-PTSD develop those difficulties as a result of repeated traumatic events.”

Gold is also the founder and director of NSU’s Trauma Integration and Resolution Program, one of the clinics housed in the Psychology Services Center.