Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories: Interventions for Therapists, Children, and Their Caregivers

ISBN-13: 9780415726924 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 258 str.

Pat Pernicano

Opis

Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories is a groundbreaking treatment resource for trauma-informed therapists who work with abused and neglected children ages nine years and older as well as their caregivers. The therapy stories are perfect accompaniments to evidence-based treatment approaches and provide the foundation for psychoeducation and intervention with the older elementary-aged child or early pre-teen. Therapists will also benefit from the inclusion of thorough guides for children and caregivers, which illustrate trauma and developmental concepts in easy-to-understand terms. The psychoeducational material in the guides, written at a third- to fourth-grade reading level, may be used within any trauma-informed therapy model in the therapy office or sent-home for follow-up. Each therapy story illustrates trauma concepts, guides trauma narrative and cognitive restructuring work, and illuminates caregiver blind spots; the caregiver stories target issues that often become barriers to family trauma recovery. No therapist who works with young trauma survivors will want to be without this book, and school-based professionals, social workers, psychologists and others committed to working with traumatized children will find the book chock-full of game-changing ideas for their practice.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Preface Part I. Therapist Guide to Trauma and Use of Therapy Stories  1. Overview of the Impact of Trauma  2. Using Narrative, Metaphor and Trauma Focused Stories in Trauma Intervention   Part II. Therapy Stories to Use with Children  1. Trauma Triggers: The False Alarm  2. Impact of Trauma: Lucky the Junkyard Dog  3. Repeated Exposure to Abusive Behavior: Trick or Treat  4. Avoidance: The Hidey Hole  5. Trauma Narrative: Bear of a Different Color  6. Self-Blame: Bear’s Self-Blame Game  7. Coping with Stress: The Burden Bag  8. Letting Out Negative Feelings: A Little at a Time  9. Self-Control: Keep the Lion on a Leash  10. Anger-Control (Bullying): The Dragon’s Fire  11. Protective Behaviors: Safety in Numbers  12. Coping with Depression: The Black Cloud  13. Coping with Obsessive Compulsive Behaviors: The Magic Stone  14. Containing Fear and Anxiety: Wrap It Up  15. Self-Acceptance: The Furry Boa  16. Unconditional Love: The Bulldog’s Dilemma  17. Pre-Verbal Trauma Narrative: Little Butterfly and the Bad Thing  18. Sibling Trauma Narrative: Stick Together  18. Family Trauma Narative: The Hidey Hole  19. Coping with Phobic Anxiety: The Grounded Eagle  20. Attachment Work for Pre-Verbal Truma: The New Cocoon    21. Living in Out of Home Care: The Good Enough Elf  22. High-Risk Behaviors: The Moth and the Flame  23. Safety Around Perpetrators: The Hungry Alligator and the Mean Snake  24. Grooming Behavior: Party Games  25. Cross-Generational Trauma: Grandma’s Alligator  Part III. Therapy Stories to Use with Adolescents  1. Fight and Flight: The Monster Within  2. Showing Your True Feelings: The Mixed Up Clown  3. Blaming Others: Poop in the Barnyard  4. Mood Regulation and Self-Control: The Feral Cat  5. Cognitive Processing: Let it Simmer  6. Vigilance: Looking for Landmines in Disneyland  7. Coping with an Eating Disorder: The Twin in the Mirror  8. Choices in Dating Relationships: No More Rotten Eggs  9. Feeling Broken or Damaged: The Cracked Glass Bowl  10. Defensive Protection: Polly's Plight  11. Dissociation and Part-Self Work: A Safe Place to Call Home  12. Self Integration: The Unraveled Tapestry  13. Coping with Heartbreak: The Girl with the Plastic Heart  14. Moving in a New Direction: Gold in the Desert  15. Escaping Family Patterns: Swimming in the Swamp  Part IV. Therapy Stories to Use with Caregivers 1. Co-Dependency: Don't Let the Leeches Suck You Dry  2. Relational Control: The Dance  3. The Cycle of Violence: Chip Away  4. Protectiveness with Children: Does He Bite?  5. Parental Risk Taking: The Balncing Act  6. Attachment Needs: Velma Crowe's Sticky Situation  7. Empathy vs. Blame: First Things First   Part V. Child’s Guide to Trauma and Healing from Trauma  1. Introduction to the Child  2. The Impact of Abuse   3. Freak- Out (Vigilance and Alert)  4.  Freeze or High Emotion (Alarm)  5.  Flight (Fear)  6. Fight (Terror)  7. Abuse and Trauma  8. PTSD and Complex Trauma  9. How Stress Affects Kids  10. Memory of Abuse  11. How Adults Can Help (or Hurt) Abused Kids  12. The Trauma Stress Chain Reaction: Freakout   13. The Trauma Stress Chain Reaction: Freeze  14. The Trauma Stress Chain Reaction: Flight  15. The Trauma Stress Chain Reaction: Fight  16. Your Own Chain Reaction  17. What Does Your Brain Have to Do With It?   18. How Stress Changes Your Brain   19. Coping Skills to Get Over Abuse: Calm Down  20. Coping Skills: Connect   21. Coping Skills: Conquer  Part VI. Caregiver’s Guide to Trauma  1. Impact of Trauma on Development  2. Neurobiology and Trauma   3. Caregiver Stress and Self-Care  Appendix A Resources for Abused Children and Their Caregivers  Appendix B Example of Trauma Stress Chain Reaction and State Dependent Functioning Appendix C Signs of Trauma at Different Ages and Stages  Appendix D Overlap of Trauma Symptoms with Other Disorders  Appendix E Tuning in to Your Child   References Index

O autorze

Pat Pernicano, PsyD, is currently a psychologist with Personal Counseling Services and served as the director of clinical services at Providence House for Children between 2007 and 2013. She is associate professor on the clinical faculty at Spalding University, where she has taught in the PsyD program since 1996.