Trauma-Organized Systems - Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families

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.

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

Product details

• Authors: Arnon Bentovim
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.1995
• EAN: 9781855750128
• ISBN: 978-1-85575-012-8
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 228 mm x 152 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 236 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work