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A five-phase treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in families

✍ Scribed by Charles R. Figley

Publisher
Springer
Year
1988
Tongue
English
Weight
827 KB
Volume
1
Category
Article
ISSN
0894-9867

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✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this paper is to present a rationale for and application of family therapy to traumatized clients and the families of these clients. After noting the frequency of trauma-inducing, high& stressful events, the paper briefly reviews the relevant traumatic stress literature. Next the paper includes a description of a theoretical orientation which draws from both the literatures of traumatic stress and family therapy. The bulk of the paper explicates a fwe-phase treatment approach to treating traumatized familia. Tkese phases are: (I) Building Commitment to the merapeutic Objectives, (2) Framing the Problem, (3) Reframing the Problem, (4) Developing a Healing Theory, and (5) Closure and Preparedness. The concepts of victim blaming, roundtable testimonials, and healing theory are introduced and discused here.

The latter part of the paper presents several challenges for researchers and clinicians who are interested in traumatized families.

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