Trauma treatment techniques: innovative trends

Editors:
GARRICK Jaqueline, WILLIAMS Mary Beth, (eds.)
Publisher:
Haworth Maltreatment and Trauma Press
Publication year:
2006
Pagination:
252p.
Place of publication:
Binghamton, NY

This text examines alternative approaches to “talk” therapies that help relieve stress in trauma survivors. Experts in a range of practice areas present mental health providers with methods that augment or go beyond traditional techniques, including art therapy, virtual reality, humour, residential programs, emotional freedom techniques (EFT), traumatic incident reduction (TIR), and thought field therapy (TFT). This book serves as a primer on new and creative means of working with combat veterans, survivors of child abuse, victims of rape and other violent crimes, refugees, victims of terrorism, and disaster survivors. Since the late 19th century, mental and medical health professionals, social workers, clinicians, and counsellors have attempted to help patients mitigate symptoms and reduce distress by employing a variety of treatment techniques, methods, strategies, and procedures. Trauma Treatment Techniques: Innovative Trends represents a significant addition to the available literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and acute distress, providing therapists with much-needed options in their efforts to help trauma sufferers recover, find new meaning, and reach for new hopes and happiness.

Subject terms:
post traumatic stress disorder, refugees, survivors, traumas, terrorism, therapies, therapy and treatment, art therapy, child abuse, crime victims;
Content type:
research
Location(s):
United States
ISBN print:
0 7890 2844 1

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