Healing tasks: psychotherapy with adult survivors of childhood abuse

This groundbreaking book presents a new model for working with survivors of abuse and other trauma. The Healing Tasks Model, based on developmental stages of healing with specific tasks for each stage, offers the clinician new support for threading through the sometimes overwhelming complexities of...

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Main Author: Kepner, James I. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1995
Edition:1. ed.
Series:<A> Gestalt Institute of Cleveland publication
<The> Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series
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Summary:This groundbreaking book presents a new model for working with survivors of abuse and other trauma. The Healing Tasks Model, based on developmental stages of healing with specific tasks for each stage, offers the clinician new support for threading through the sometimes overwhelming complexities of the survivor's experience. At the same time, James I. Kepner's model helps to avoid some of the common pitfalls and risks of work in this most challenging of clinical areas, such as pushing clients to express and remember before they have developed the capacity to manage such intensity, or encouraging confrontation and interpersonal interactions that the survivor doesn't yet have the developmental underpinnings to support
Using the Healing Tasks Model the clinician will find techniques for helping clients to develop emotional and systemic supports, manage feelings, and set appropriate boundaries. Readers will also find a guide to dealing with the difficult and troubling issues of memory: how to approach abuse memories, when and how to take action based on abuse memories, when to defer action pending the development of more supports and capacities for the survivor, and then how to develop those essential supports and capacities. Written for psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, pastoral counselors, addictive disorder counselors, and adult survivors of childhood abuse, Healing Tasks provides a therapeutic model that can be used to help abuse survivors develop the emotional skills to lead richer and more fulfilling lives
Physical Description:XXIII, 312 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:0787901555

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