Trauma Theory & Testimony: Breaking Cycles Through Lived Experience and Developmental Theory - Hardcover

Trauma Theory & Testimony is a powerful blend of lived experience and clinical insight.

Charlietta D. Owens, MSW, LGSW, CTP, takes readers inside the realities of trauma, healing, identity, and resilience-grounding every chapter in both personal narrative and human-services theory.

This expanded hardcover edition brings her story and scholarship together in a durable, long-lasting format built for classrooms, professionals, and readers who want a book they can keep, mark up, and return to over time.

Owens unpacks trauma through:

• Attachment theory
• Childhood development
• Family systems
• Survival responses
• The long arc of healing and reclamation

Written for both students and practitioners, Trauma Theory & Testimony offers clarity, honesty, and direction for anyone seeking to understand trauma's impact-and the strength it takes to rise from it.

This is more than a book.

It's a testimony, a teaching tool, and a companion for the journey back to self.