Session #: 715-306
Presenter(s): Kenneth Hardy
Session Length: 2hr. 00 min. Event: 2005 Networker Annual Symposium Date: March 17-20, 2005
306 Most approaches to trauma today?including EMDR, somatic therapies, hypnosis, and most psychodynamic treatment?take the individual as their exclusive focus. However, ignoring the impact of the trauma on the client's family overlooks powerful dynamics that are crucial to treatment outcome. Participants in this workshop will learn how to involve the trauma sufferer's partner and other family members as resources in the healing process. You'll learn how to better educate clients about the typical symptoms of trauma, the stages of trauma recovery, how to help family members both soothe and set limits with the traumatized person, and the typical pitfalls families encounter?including the depleting response of "enough already"?as a family member tries to heal from a trauma.
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