Hearing the Internal Trauma - Working With Children and Adolescents Who Have Been Sexually Abused

An innovative clinical approach to working with children and adolescents who have been sexually abused - the Internalization Model - is presented in this volume. It is designed to increase the therapist's recognition and understanding of the effects of such abuse on a young victim's internal sense of self and world.

The author argues that abuse-related internalizations, not the symptomatic behaviours resulting from these internalizations, need to be addressed in therapy. Wieland describes a psychodynamic trauma-focused therapy - which includes aspects of psychoanalytic, behavioural and cognitive therapies - which has resulted in positive changes such as children beginning to engage in age-appropriate play and adolescents feeling more sure of themselves. The book also includes a discussion of how a therapist's own internalizations might affect the therapeutic experience.

List of contents

The Need for a Framework
The Internalization Model
Understanding and Expanding the Play
Children
Recognizing and Addressing the Behavior
Adolescents
Identifying and Changing Messages
Families
Hearing Oneself
The Therapist¿s Experience

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Wieland, Stacy Wieland
• Assisted by: Jon R Conte (Editor), Jon R. Conte (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.1996
• EAN: 9780761903666
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-0366-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Interpersonal Violence: The Pr; Interpersonal Violence: The Practice Series; Interpersonal Violence: The Pr
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology