Trauma-Organized Systems - Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families

List of contents

Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , The family as a violent institution: a sociological perspective , Family violence: explanatory models to describe violent and abusive families , Developing a social-interactional–systemic account of family violence , Family victimization processes and social-interaction explanations for family violence , A systematic account of the different trauma-organized systems in various forms of family violence , Trauma-organized systems: breaking the denial process by externalizing , A focal model to encompass the descriptions of the trauma-determined family system , Treating the trauma-organized system , The treatment process in trauma-organized systems

About the author

Arnon Bentovim is a Director of Child and Family Training, and a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was formerly a Honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and the Tavistock Clinic. He was also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, University College London.

Summary

This book is about the experience of individuals who have been abused or who have abused others, but it also traces the way an abusive experience can organize a family or professional system so that changes are difficult to achieve.

Product details

• Authors: Arnon Bentovim, Bentovim Arnon, Donald A. Bloch
• Assisted by: David Campbell (Editor of the series), Ros Draper (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367104580
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10458-0
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, Sexual abuse & harassment, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Sociology: family & relationships, Sexual abuse and harassment, Sociology: family and relationships, Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy, Trauma and Violence