Techniques Issues in Abuse Focused Therapy With Children & - Addressing the Internal Trauma

How can therapists deal effectively with children or adolescents who have been sexually abused - but refuse to discuss their experiences? Working with such young people presents innumerable challenges for the therapist. In this book, Sandra Wieland describes `The Internalization Model', which provides a framework to help therapists understand the effects of sexual abuse on children's or adolescents' internal sense of self and world, even when the child does not talk about the abuse.

Ways of addressing and shifting these abuse-related internalizations within the therapy are described, together with specific techniques such as imaging, genograms and time-lines. Other topics explored include: sexuality; dissociation; and resistance by the child, parent or therapist.

List of contents

PART ONE: THE CHILD¿S TRAUMA
Understanding the Child¿s Trauma
The Internalization Model
PART TWO: TECHNIQUES
Addressing the Child¿s Internalizations
Therapy
Working Within
Imaging
Placing the Abuse in Context
Genograms, Time-Lines, Messages and Myths
PART THREE: ISSUES
Engaging the Parts
Working with Dissociation
Reconnecting to the Body
Sexuality
Avoiding the Thoughts
Resistance
PART FOUR: THE ADOLESCENT¿S EXPERIENCE
Therapy
The Adolescent Comments

About the author

Sandra Wieland, Ph.D., Center for Treatment of Sexual Abuse and Childhood Trauma, Ontario, Canada

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Wieland, Stacy Wieland
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.11.1998
• EAN: 9780761904823
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-0482-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Graduate Survival Skills; Interpersonal Violence: The Practice Series; Interpersonal Violence: The Pr
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine