"Abstract Family Therapy for Trauma: An Integrative Family Systems Treatment (IFAST-T) offers a stand-alone family therapy treatment approach for trauma, addressing a gap in the trauma treatment literature. The book outlines a flexible yet structured family therapy approach that can integrate intervention procedures from any of the evidence based manualized trauma treatments into a family treatment framework. We show how this flexibility offers great advantages for engaging trauma survivors and their families into treatment, who otherwise would not co-operate with standard trauma treatment approaches. We show how tracking and utilizing client and family frames in the organizing of treatment enhances both family engagement and the healing process in general. We show the role of family interactional patterns in the perpetuation of trauma symptoms and how changing these patterns leads to the resolution of trauma symptoms. We demonstrate how tracking and enlarging interactional exceptions plays a key role in overcoming problems related to trauma. For clients who are not interested in trauma treatment, we show how treatment focusing on whatever issue they are willing to address can simultaneously resolve their trauma symptoms"--
This book provides understanding, validation, and solutions for these caregivers. In it, the authors explain their innovative model of "team" treatment that includes an EMDR therapist and a family therapist.
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Some researchers have reported that as many as 13% of women in the United States are victims of a forcible rape in their lifetime, most of which will never be reported (Resnick, Kilpatrick, Dansky, Saunders, & Best, 1993).
The Handbook of Stress, Trauma, and the Family is broken down into three sections, compiling research, theory and practice.
... Medication, and More and Mental Health for the Whole Child: Moving Young Clients from Disease & Disorder to Balance & Wellness. The second source comes from the first author's wife, Nancy, and their young 8-year-old son, David.
"This is a must-read for clinicians who help traumatized children and their families.
Detailed session outlines and therapist scripts facilitate the entire process of assessment, case conceptualization, and intervention. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 50 reproducible handouts and forms.
... the most accurate information regarding observable difficulties (e.g., acting-out behaviors, family and peer problems), children themselves are the best reporters of their own internal distress (Rev, Schrader, & Morris-Yates, 1992).
Critical Acclaim for Handbook of EMDR and Family Therapy Processes “A wonderful volume... If this book doesn’t grab you, you are not interested in pushing out your boundaries and thinking and learning more about therapy. . .
This book presents a theoretically based and empirically supported framework for work with traumatized children, youth, and young adults who have spent time in foster care.