Summary
Contents
Subject index
The authors’ unique evidence-based treatment model provides therapists with a structured, yet flexible approach to treating complex trauma in children. The book’s individualized, multi-modal, assessment-based approach for complex trauma provides guidelines that help the therapist to identify specific needs for each client, along with appropriate assessment and treatment interventions. A unique chapter on supervision and therapist self-care provides guidelines and information for therapists regarding supervision, management of countertransference, and self-care. Coverage attends to the concerns of socially marginalized children, as well as less deprived children and their families, reflecting the book’s philosophical inclusion of social and cultural issues in trauma treatment.
Family Therapy
Family Therapy
Family therapy is often an important component of ITCT-C because family system issues typically influence the traumatized child’s psychological functioning and responses. For example, the family’s level of support of the child following the disclosure of traumatic experience partially determines how severely the child will be affected: children who are supported more by their caretakers following disclosure are usually less traumatized and more likely to be protected from further victimization (Cohen & Mannarino, 1996; Pearce & Pezzot-Pearce, 2007). The role of the family is especially significant for younger children, who spend more time within the family context than they will as they grow older, and are more dependent on adult family members to provide care. More than individual treatment alone, family ...
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