Synopses & Reviews
A comprehensive approach to working with families traumatized from ordeals such as criminal assaults, natural disasters, and terminal illnesses. Offers a five-phase method for empowering families so they can make peace with the past and regain control of their lives.
Table of Contents
1. Understanding Traumatized Families
2. How Families Cope with Trauma
3. Empowering Families: A New Approach to Treatment
4. Assessing the Family's Level of Stress
5. Therapeutic Objectives and Overview of the Five Treatment Phases
6. Phase One: Building Commitment to Therapeutic Objectives
7. Phase Two: Framing the Problem
8. Phase Three: Reframing the Problem
9. Phase Four: Developing a Healing Theory
10. Phase Five: Closure and Preparedness
11. Special Help for Traumatized Children
12. Helping Traumatized Families: Challenges for Research and Practice
Resources: A. Traumagram Questionnaire B. The Purdue Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Scale C. The Purdue Social Support Scale