Principles and techniques of trauma-centered psychotherapy / David Read Johnson, Ph. D., Hadar Lubin, M. D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, David Read, author.

Lubin, Hadar, author.

Contributor:

American Psychiatric Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : American Psychiatric Publishing, a division of American Psychiatric Association, 2015.

Summary:

This is not a general text, then, but one focused on building competence and confidence in trauma-centered interventions, providing methods that should be readily and widely applicable to clinical practice.

Contents:

The developing cultural context of trauma-centered psychotherapy

Axioms of trauma-centered psychotherapy

Establishing the trauma-centered frame

Principles of trauma-centered psychotherapy

The four main techniques

The first session

Continuing the trauma history : getting the details and formulating the trauma schema

Conducting ongoing treatment : decoding the trauma schemas in current behavior

The gap : when the trauma schema emerge in the therapeutic relationship

Long term process in treatment

Handling the edges

Working with clients with dissociative identity disorder

Working with clients with borderline personality disorder

Trauma-centered group psychotherapy

Trauma-centered couples and family psychotherapy

Adjunctive methods

Strains on the therapist

Limits to the trauma centered approach.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781615371037

1615371036

9781615370214

1615370218