Healing Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Clinician's Guide (Essential Clinical Social Work Series)

✍ Scribed by Gillian O’Shea Brown

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a clinician's guide to understanding, diagnosing, treating, and healing complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). C-PTSD, a diagnostic entity to be included in ICD-11 in 2022, denotes a severe form of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and is the result of prolonged and repeated interpersonal trauma.
The author provides guidance on healing complex trauma through phase-oriented, multimodal, and skill-focused treatment approaches, with a core emphasis on symptom relief and functional improvement. Readers will gain familiarity with the integrative healing techniques and modalities that are currently being utilized as evidence-based treatments, including innovative multi-sensory treatments for trauma, in addition to learning more about posttraumatic growth and resilience.
Each chapter of this guide navigates readers through the complicated field of treating and healing complex trauma, including how to work with clients also impacted by the shared collective trauma of COVID-19, and is illustrated by case examples. Topics explored include:

• Complex layered trauma
• Dissociation
• Trauma and the body
• The power of belief
• An overview of psychotherapy modalities for the treatment of complex trauma
• Ego state work and connecting with the inner child
• Turning wounds into wisdom: resilience and posttraumatic growth
• Vicarious trauma and professional self-care for the trauma clinician

It is important for clinicians to be aware of contemporary trends in treating C-PTSD. Healing Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is an essential text for mental health practitioners, clinical social workers, and other clinicians; academics; and graduate students, in addition to other professionals and students interested in C-PTSD. It is an attractive resource for an international clinical audience as we work togetherto heal, affirm, and unburden clients following this time of shared collective trauma.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Chapter 2: Understanding Your Emotional Map
Attachment, Attunement, and Mirroring: An Overview
Implications of an Insecure Attachment Pattern
Insecure Attachment and Romantic Relationships
Attachment Theory Through a Critical Lens
Developmental Trauma and Racial Disparity in the Time of COVID-19
Measuring Attachment Status in a Clinical Setting
Adult Attachment Interview Protocol
Introduction
Questions
Summary
References
Chapter 3: Complex Layered Trauma
Emergence of C-PTSD
Deconstructing C-PTSD: A Diathesis-Stress Model Perspective
Neuroscience of Complex Trauma
Measuring Trauma in a Clinical Setting
Summary
References
Chapter 4: Dysfunctional Family Systems
Dysfunctional Family Systems and Pathological Accommodation
Communication Deviance and Behavioral Abnormalities
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Measuring Adverse Childhood Experiences in a Clinical Setting
Summary
References
Chapter 5: Dissociation
Understanding Dissociation
Measuring Dissociation
Working with Dissociative Clients
Clinical Vignette
Summary
References
Chapter 6: Trauma and the Body
Mind-Body Connection
The Modulation Model
Polyvagal Theory
Somatization and Implicit Memory
Autoimmune Disorders
Summary
References
Chapter 7: The Power of Belief
Core Negative Self-Beliefs
Negativity Bias and Confirmation Bias
The Bite That Fits the Wound
Linking Blocking Beliefs to Memories
Finding the Memories Connected to the Core Negative Belief
Summary
References
Chapter 8: An Overview of Psychotherapy Modalities for the Treatment of Complex Trauma
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Case Study
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Somatic Experiencing
Practice Innovations in the Wake of COVID-19
Summary
References
Chapter 9: Ego State Work and Connecting with the Inner Child
Trauma and the Multiplicity of the Mind
Case Study
The Internal Family Systems Model
Case Study
Summary
References
Chapter 10: Turning Wounds into Wisdom: Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth
Vulnerability and Shame
The Anatomy of Resilience
Posttraumatic Growth Model
Summary
References
Chapter 11: Vicarious Trauma and Professional Self-Care for the Trauma Clinician
Conceptualization of Vicarious Trauma
Understanding Countertransference and Compassion Fatigue
The Role of Clinical Supervision and Professional Self-Care
Summary
References
Chapter 12: Conclusion
References
Correction to: Conclusion
Appendix
The Adult Attachment Interview
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Internal Family Systems
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Somatic Experiencing
Index