Lisa D. Butler, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, NY, USA.

Filomena M. Critelli, PhD, is Associate Professor and the Co-Director of the Institute for Sustainable Global Engagement in the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, NY, USA.

Janice Carello, LMSW, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at Edinboro University, in Edinboro, PA, USA.

Bridges the conceptual gap between an expansion of international human rights law and increased attention to treatment systems that incorporate trauma-informed care from the mental health community

Examines how the key principles described converge and intersect in multiple and complex ways, applying a base framework to a broad range of vulnerable groups and communities

Highlights how a trauma-informed human rights framework can serve as an effective guide for assessment and intervention

Chapter 1: Introduction to Trauma and Human Rights.- Chapter 2: Traumatic Experience, Human Rights Violations, and Their Intersection.- Chapter 3: Moving Toward Trauma-Informed and Human.- Rights-Based Social Policy: the Role of the Helping Professions.- Chapter 4: Enhancing Indigenous Wellbeing: Applying Human Rights and Trauma-Informed Perspectives with Native Americans.- Chapter 5: Black Trauma in the US and the Pursuit of Human Rights: A Brief History.- Chapter 6: Children's Experiences of Trauma and Human Rights Violations Around the World.- Chapter 7: Women, Trauma, and Human Rights.- Chapter 8: The Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: A Trauma-Informed and Human Rights Perspective.- Chapter 9: Mental Disability, Trauma, and Human Rights.- Chapter 10: Refugees and Asylum Seekers.- Chapter 11: The Interrelationship between Aging, Trauma, and the End of Life.- Chapter 12: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, Human Rights, and Trauma.- Chapter 13:Afterword: Human Rights and the Science of Suffering.