The developing cultural context of trauma-centered psychotherapy -- Axioms of trauma-centered psychotherapy -- Establishing the trauma-centered frame -- Principles of trauma-centered psychotherapy -- The four main techniques -- The first session -- Continuing the trauma history : getting the details and formulating the trauma schema -- Conducting ongoing treatment : decoding the trauma schemas in current behavior -- The gap : when the trauma schema emerge in the therapeutic relationship -- Long term process in treatment -- Handling the edges -- Working with clients with dissociative identity disorder -- Working with clients with borderline personality disorder -- Trauma-centered group psychotherapy -- Trauma-centered couples and family psychotherapy -- Adjunctive methods -- Strains on the therapist -- Limits to the trauma centered approach
Summary
This is not a general text, then, but one focused on building competence and confidence in trauma-centered interventions, providing methods that should be readily and widely applicable to clinical practice
