Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors
Subtitle: Strengthening Attachment Bonds
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Published: January 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781572307353
Subjects: Psychiatry; Psychotherapy; Psychology; Marital psychotherapy; Psychotherapy - Couples & Family; Abuse - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Family Therapy; Family relationships; Attachment behavior; Patients; Psychic trauma
First sentence: In old Celtic stories, where life is dark and full of danger, poets and seers teach people how to face the darkness.
Description: "Trauma can have a tremendous impact on a person's capacity to trust and feel safe in intimate relationships; yet treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) generally focus on the individual client. This book suggests that couple therapy can play a vital role in recovery for individual survivors at the same time as it addresses trauma-related issues in the relationship as a whole. From pioneering treatment developer Susan M.

Johnson, the volume presents a systematic intervention approach designed to modify the interactional patterns that maintain traumatic stress and foster positive, healing attachments among survivors and their partners. Combining theoretical innovation, evidence-based techniques, and wisdom gleaned from decades of front-line clinical experience, it is a vital resource for practitioners in a wide range of settings."--BOOK JACKET.