1st Edition

Trauma and Fulfillment Therapy: A Wholist Framework Pathways to Fulfillment

By Paul Valent Copyright 1999
    248 Pages
    by Taylor & Francis

    248 Pages
    by Taylor & Francis

    Trauma results in a wide variety of human unhappiness. In parallel, treatment of the consequences of trauma ranges from drugs, to single session psychological techniques, to management and cognitive therapies, to psychotherapies which take years. Some therapies deal with individuals, others with groups, some with children, and others with adults. With such a multiplicity of options, it can be difficult to make sense of the variety of manifestations and treatments. This work aims to clarify the situation by offering tools to conceptualize and treat a range of symptoms and illnesses, and to replace them with equally well conceptualized fulfillment alternatives. It is geared towards traumatologists, psychologists, counsellors, and social workers who help those who have suffered assault, bereavement, sexual abuse, or disasters. Upper level undergraduates students, graduate students and professors in trauma, loss, and bereavement.

    Part I Introduction to Traumatic Stress and Its Treatment; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 History of Trauma Treatment; Part II The Wholist Perspective; Chapter 3 The Triaxial Framework; Chapter 4 Survival Strategies; Part III The Wholist Perspective Applied to Common Treatment Principles; Chapter 5 The Wholist View and Language Applied to Recognition; Chapter 6 Wholist View of Nonspecific, Symptomatic, and Specific Treatments; Part IV Clinical Applications: Wholist Treatment; Chapter 7 Introduction to Clinical Application of the Wholist Perspective; Chapter 8 Being There at the Trauma: Acute Treatment and Prevention; Chapter 9 Early Stress and Trauma Treatments; Chapter 10 Later Ramifications of Traumatic Sequelae; Chapter 11 Treating Helper Stresses and Illnesses; Chapter 12 Summary and Conclusion;

    Biography

    Paul Valent