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Tools for Transforming Trauma Robert Schwarz

Tools for Transforming Trauma By Robert Schwarz

Tools for Transforming Trauma by Robert Schwarz


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Integrating a wide range of therapeutic theory and technique, including Ericksonian, solution-oriented and hypnotherapeutic approaches, this book provides clinicians with specific skills for treating traumatized individuals.

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Tools for Transforming Trauma by Robert Schwarz

Tools for Transforming Trauma provides clinicians with an integrative framework that covers a wide range of therapeutic modalities and a "black bag" full of therapeutic tools for healing trauma patients.

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"Tools for Transforming Trauma is a wonderfully resourceful handbook for goal-oriented and effective approaches for overcoming cognitive, affective, and behavioral limitations of traumatic experience and the many sequelae of trauma. All therapists of trauma victims will find valuable ideas and useful guidelines for the comprehensive treatment of their patients in this clear and well-written book." -- Stephen Lankton, MSW, DAHB Training and Consulting, Phoenix, Arizona
"In a highly readable and enjoyable style, Robert Schwarz has succinctly assembled a plethera of valuable information on trauma/PTSD in Tools for Transforming Trauma. I highly recommend this book if you are interested in comprehensive understanding and treatment methods for these conditions." -- Fred P. Gallo, Ph.D., Author of Energy Psychology and Energy Diagnostic and Treatment Methods and Founder of EDxTM
"True to it's title, this highly useful book offers an abundance of practical interventions for psychotherapists seeking to provide relief from PTSD symptoms and empower trauma survivors to live healthier, more rewarding, and productive lives. Also included are a series or fresh and innovative ideas for enhancing caregivers' continued personal and professional growth, self-development and self-care." -- Yvonne Dolan, MA, Author of Resolving Sexual Abuse, A Path with Heart and One Small Step
"Tools for Transforming Trauma is a practical resource manual that will guide clinicans of all persuasions to effectively help PTSD clients reclaim their lives. To effectively treat this tragic problem, Bob Schwarz brings peerless expertise and an integrative perspective, all in eminently readable and easy to digest prose. This is a "must read" for those working in the field of PTSD." -- Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D., Director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation
"This book contains a wealth of practical and applicable interventions for clinicians to implement with their PTSD patients. Clinicians will enhance their level of knowledge and gain specific treatment skills...The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with both an integrative framework and practical tools for transforming the negative effects of trauma. Additionally, the tools contained in this book are designed to be readable, easy-to-implement, and yet detailed and comprehensive. The author fully accomplishes his objectives and has provided a welcome addition to the field." -- Nicholas Greco IV, Doody Reviews
"This is a fresh and wonderfully crafted guide to helping those who have suffered trauma. The author has made a positive statement with this book and that is this -- complete, well-written, and truly useful books do exist and can do more than merely clutter the field with redundant information. This book adds to the field on many levels and provides relevant information. As an individual who has worked with trauma survivors, I highly recommend this book." -- Nicholas Greco IV, Doody Reviews

About Robert Schwarz

Robert A. Schwarz, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist, clinical member of AAMFT, and an approved consultant in hypnosis. He has organized eight national conferences on treating trauma, four regional conferences on Ericksonian hypnosis, and two international conferences on brief therapy. He is co-author of Posttraumic Stress Disorder: A Clinician's Guide. He has been practicing psychotherapy and supervision in the Philadelphia area for over 20 years.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Understanding How Trauma Leads to PTSD
The Qualities of the Traumatic Experience
Post-Traumatic Cognitive Processing and Affect Dysregulation
The Recovery Environment
Individual Characteristics
Appraisal and Meaning
Spirituality
Classical Conditioning
Respondent Conditioning
Biology and Energy
The Amplification Circuit
Adaptive Resolutions
Maladaptive Resolutions
Basic Approaches to Treatment: The Consensus View

2. A Neo-Ericksonian Framework for Treating Trauma
Resource-Based Therapy Orientation
Solution and Mastery Orientations as Resources
Well-Formed Outcomes
The Relationship Between Solutions and Problems
Building Maps to the Future
A State of Consciousness Model of Trance and Trauma
Solution-Oriented Therapy and a SoC Model
Principles of Hypnotically Based Therapy
The Utilization Principle
Dissociation and its Utilization
The Narrative Approach
Framing, Defining, and Reframing Experience
Opportunities are Everywhere, You Just Have to Notice Them
A Therapy of Action and Interaction in the Real World
A General Pattern for Treating Trauma

3. The Tools Framework
The TOTE Model
Consistently Achieved Goals Require the Use of Different
Operations
Interventions as Assessment and Feedback
Interventions and Assessments as Agents of Change
Translating DSM Diagnoses into Action Plans for Change
An Algorithm for Translating DSM Diagnoses into Action Plans
The Interaction Between Therapist Skill Base and Personal Response
From Tools to Art

4. Tools for Safety, Ego Support, and Ego Growth
Affect Modulation
Creating and Strengthening Boundaries
End State Retraining

5. Tools for Transforming Traumatic Memory
PTSD as a Disorder of Memory
Memory and Healing
Tools for Processing Memory in Phase Two of Treatment
Memory Retrieval Approaches for Traumatic Memories
Memory Distortion, Magnification and Minimization: Clinical and Political Issues
Summary

6. The Use of Thought Field Therapy in Treating Trauma
Embrace the Paradigm Shift (Weirdness)
A Brief History of TFT and Energy Therapy
Mechanism of Therapeutic Action
TFT: A Noncathartic/Non Retraumatizing Method
When Treatment Does Not Work
Integrating Energy Treatment Within a Broader Therapy Context
How to Introduce TFT to Patients When You Are Still Learning
Conclusions

7. Tools for the Holistic Self
Own and Value Parts of the Self That Used to Be Disowned and De-valued
Feelings and Experiences
Actions and Stories
Memory and Awareness and the Therapy of "That What Is"
Be Connected to the Resources that Exist Internally and Externally
Finding the Current Problem That Is Represented in the Return of the Past: Taking Healthy Action
Solution-Oriented Questioning to Link Resources
Indentify Social Pressures and Modulate Their Influence on the Person so that the Person Can Choose How to Live
Summary

8. If You Meet the "Tool" on the Road, Leave It! - Person-of-the-Therapist Issues
Therapist as Witness
When the Therapy Goes Off Course
Acknowledging Powerlessness (Or, A Person's Got to Know His
Limitations)
When Therapists Cannot Manage Their Own Affect
The Survivor-Therapist
Three Tools for Working with the Therapist-Patient Relationship
Summary

Integration and Summary: Beyond Tools and Trauma
Epilogue: Tools for Transforming Terrorism
References
Index
Other Resources

Additional information

CIN1583913416G
9781583913413
1583913416
Tools for Transforming Trauma by Robert Schwarz
Used - Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2002-07-25
256
N/A
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