Introduction To Counselling Survivors Of Interpersonal Trauma

The book provides a solid understanding of the nature, dynamics, impact and long-term effects of interpersonal trauma, and explains how to create a secure therapeutic base from which to explore and integrate its effects. Clinical examples are used throughout to highlight the unique features of each type of interpersonal trauma and to illustrate how to work most effectively with survivors of such trauma. Professional challenges and the impact of counselling survivors of interpersonal trauma are also examined in order to minimise the risk of vicarious traumatisation and secondary traumatic stress. This book is essential reading for counsellors, therapists, social workers, mental health professionals, health care professionals including GPs and midwives, legal professionals and all those working with survivors of interpersonal trauma, including sexual violence, child abuse, domestic abuse, elder abuse, institutional abuse and abuse by professionals.

Victims of sexual and physical trauma can feel lost and disconnected from themselves and others. Christiane Sanderson's new book explains how counsellors can restore connection to self and others, and facilitate recovery within a safe and supportive therapeutic relationship. To understand fully the harm caused by interpersonal trauma, professionals must first recognize its complex nature, and the psychological and emotional impact of exposure to control and terror. This book examines the therapeutic techniques and specific challenges faced by professionals when working with survivors of interpersonal trauma. The author explores issues such as safety and protection, the long-term effects of trauma and the importance of visiting past experiences and assessing their impact on the present. This book is essential reading for counsellors, therapists, social workers, mental health professionals, health care professionals including GPs and midwives, legal professionals and all those working with survivors of interpersonal trauma such as sexual violence, child abuse, domestic abuse, elder abuse, institutional abuse and abuse by professionals

Counselling Survivors of Domestic Abuse explains how counsellors can facilitate recovery from domestic abuse within a secure, supportive therapeutic relationship. There has been growing awareness in recent years of the impact and consequences of domestic abuse, especially the relationship between domestic abuse and mental health. To appreciate the nature of trauma caused by domestic abuse, professionals need to understand its complex nature and the psychobiological impact of repeated exposure to control and terror. This book examines the therapeutic techniques and specific challenges, such as secondary traumatic stress, faced by professionals when working with survivors of domestic abuse. The author stresses the importance of identifying domestic abuse so that it can be addressed in the therapeutic process to aid recovery, and explores issues such as safety and protection, the long-term effects of abuse and the importance of grieving to the restoration of hope. This book is essential reading for counsellors, therapists, social workers, mental health professionals, health care professionals including GPs and midwives, managers of refuges, legal professionals and all those working with survivors of domestic abuse.

This updated and expanded edition provides comprehensive coverage of the theory and practice of counselling survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA). In a reasoned and thoughtful approach, common stereotypes of abusers and their victims are replaced with current knowledge on the incidence of CSA and its long-term impacts on adult survivors. Christiane Sanderson explores the therapeutic relationship from building trust and meeting the client's needs to establishing boundaries, addressing transference issues and avoiding secondary traumatic stress. She evaluates various treatment approaches and techniques, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of group therapy. Stand-alone chapters provide in-depth coverage of: * CSA's impact on survivors' sense of self and their relationships with others * self-harming behaviour, including self-injury, substance abuse and eating disorders * how memory is constructed and reconstructed, including the controversial issues surrounding recovered memories * useful approaches to coping with fear and loss from working with other types of trauma * normal sexual development and typical sexual difficulties for survivors * working with shame and dissociation. Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse honestly addresses the complex issues in this important area of work. It provides practical strategies for those new to counselling in this field and valuable new insights for experienced counsellors.

Counselling Skills for Working with Trauma is a practical, introductory guide to counselling survivors of child abuse, neglect, rape, sexual violence, sexual trafficking, religious sexual abuse, and domestic abuse. Written in an accessible style, it provides a comprehensive introduction to complex trauma accompanied by advice on how to create a safe environment in which survivors can learn the skills to restore control over trauma symptoms, to aid healing and post traumatic growth. The book covers all of the key principles including: understanding the role of dissociation in complex trauma; the role of attachment; managing flashbacks, panic attacks, nightmares and dissociation; responding to shame and guilt; managing relationships; and the impact of working with complex trauma. It explores how practitioners can work more effectively with trauma, and offers techniques and skills which can easily be integrated into different therapeutic models. Featuring highlighted top tips, common pitfalls and a range of exercises, this is an essential guide for all professionals working with child and adult survivors of trauma.

This book has been replaced by Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Interpersonal Trauma, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4328-1.

`Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse addresses the myths and mysteries while propelling a lifeline to both the health professional and the adult survivor. This is propably the most complete book on sexual abuse in publication.'' - Nursing Ethics `If you''re looking for a comprehensive overview of theory and practice in this hugely important area of work then look no further...a useful resource book which would make a thoughtful and thorough introduction for trainee clinical and counselling psychologists, or those looking to familiarise themselves with the range of issues in this area of work.'' - Changes - An International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy `...significant in its frank, honest explication of the problem society faces when children are sexual victims and challenges psychologists to treat this systemic problem with all the resources available to them... The significance of this work is the comfort it provides to those who are searching for normalization of their experiences, the honesty in addressing the very existence of ongoing sexual abuse of children, our shared societal responsibility for potentially or inadvertently tolerating abuse, and a sense that there is a group of persons with whom survivors can identify.'' - Contemporary Psychology `a comprehensive guide to the background, theory and treatment of survivors of abuse which tackles the thorny issue of false memories, with sound advice about the role of the counsellor. It has an easy, readable style with just enough summarising of previous chapters to allow them to be read separately, making it an enjoyable and worthwhile book to read or refer to... I particularly liked the separation of objectives, approaches and techniques in dealing with treatment, which gave the book enormous clarity.'' - Counselling `...comprehensive and useful...very readable and would be especially useful for anyone who is just entering this field and wishes to explore all the options and provide their client with the best possible service.'' - Community Care `...gives an overview of the literature on theories of sexual abuse, its impact and long-term psychological consequences and an examination of different models of treatment.'' - Journal of Family Therapy `...this excellent book...strikes a good balance between theory, data and practical advice for workers and includes illustrative case material and practical strategies for counsellors... It conveys both the experiences of survivors and the enormous amount that can be achieved. It is a stimulating and optimistic book which would be suitable for all workers in this important area.'' - Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health `This book is academically sound and is all-embracing in its treatment of its subject matter. It is an excellent resource book and would be recommended reading for any person wishing to embark on research in this field... All counsellors may indeed learn something from it.'' - Counselling Newsletter `well-organized, clear, carefully reasoned and documented...a thorough, helpful, and sensible book, providing a readable overview of knowledge on the topic. While the text is aimed at professionals, Sanderson''s style appeals to other concerned individuals including survivors and those who support them.'' - FVSAB This revised edition includes new information and data on the incidence of child sexual abuse and looks more closely at the complexities of sexual abuse by female abusers. An entirely new chapter on `False Memory Syndrome'' is included in this edition which presents both clinical and scientific arguments pertaining to the retrieval of memories, as well as analysing the impact of the application of this syndrome not only on victims and survivors, but also on therapists and society as a whole. Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse * examines the theories which attempt to account for the occurrence of child sexual abuse * explains the traumatic impact of child sexual abuse * looks at the ways in which these effects can be ameliorated and the adult healed. Treatment techniques and the role of the counsellor in employing these techniques are also discussed in such a way that the counsellor can make use of the book not only as a review of current theory, but also as a practical handbook for use with clients who may be adult survivors of child sexual abuse.

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