Summary
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This is the first book to show how to use cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with the full spectrum of post-traumatic responses; exploring how they affect and relate to one another. Focusing not only on co-morbidity with other anxiety disorders and depression, the book looks more widely at, for example, co-existing pain, substance abuse and head injury.
After discussing how to tailor CBT practice to work most effectively with trauma responses in real-world settings, Michael J Scott goes on to explore the step-by-step treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, other commonly occurring disorders and, finally, secondary traumatisation. Those training to work with young people, or already doing so, will find the focus in Part Three on CBT with traumatized children invaluable.
Group Treatment
Group Treatment
When there is a collective trauma, those affected often state that unless someone has been through the same experience, they cannot understand what they have been through. A group intervention for similarly traumatised clients can therefore do much to lessen isolation. But unfortunately there is also the risk of re-traumatisation from hearing the accounts of others' traumas. This risk is greater in a trauma-focused CBT (TFCBT) than in a coping skills non-trauma-focused CBT (NTFCBT) group. In this chapter a group coping skills programme is detailed which has at its core Self-Instruction Training (SIT). As in Chapter Four, SIT is used to target each of the PTSD symptoms. The therapist's teaching role can be easily derailed if group processes are not managed and ...
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