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Healing the Spirit: Different Perspectives on Resolving Trauma

Healing the Spirit: Different Perspectives on Resolving Trauma . Rita DeMaria, PhD, LMFT, CST Michele Marsh, PhD, CSSP June 9, 2013 - AASECT. Goals. Three perspectives on trauma and recovery The Intersystem Approach Film Clips: Guided Discussion Family Meeting: A role play

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Healing the Spirit: Different Perspectives on Resolving Trauma

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  1. Healing the Spirit: Different Perspectives on Resolving Trauma Rita DeMaria, PhD, LMFT, CST Michele Marsh, PhD, CSSP June 9, 2013 - AASECT

  2. Goals • Three perspectives on trauma and recovery • The Intersystem Approach • Film Clips: Guided Discussion • Family Meeting: A role play • Lessons learned

  3. Perspectives on Trauma • Herman: Trauma and Recovery, 1991 • Stage theories: other examples • Three Stages • 1. Safety, self care, emotional regulation • 2. Remembrance and mourning – grief work • 3. Reconnection and meaning Stages are developmental and continuous - morphogenic

  4. Self-Trauma Model: Briere, 2002 • Post-traumatic responses serve an important psychological function; • to repeatedly reactivate and process traumatic memories to the point that they lose their distress-producing characteristics and can be accommodated by existing self-capacities • Johnbriere.com/STM.pdf

  5. Transcending Trauma Model • Psychological mechanism of survival and clinical implications – exploring resilience after prolonged trauma • Key concepts: Pivotal memories and transformative narratives; the mediating parent; family dynamics and communication • Transcending Trauma: Survival, Resilience, and Clinical Applications in Survivor Families, 2012 • Council for Relationships, Philadelphia, PA Bea Hollander Goldfein, PhD & Nancy Isserman, PhD – Project Directors

  6. The Intersystem Approach - Weeks • The Intersystem Approach a metaframework for assessment and intervention explores: • Individual dynamics and functioning • Interactional dynamics and functioning – focus on couple and family dynamics using attachment theory as the lens • Intergenerational dynamics and functioning – historical and contemporary • Focused Genograms: Intergenerational Assessment of Individuals, Couples, and Families, 1997, 2nd edition in process; DeMaria, Weeks, Blumer

  7. ABCS of Effective Treatment

  8. ABCs of Effective Treatment • Affective focused interventions • Behavioral focused interventions • Cognitive focused interventions • Explored within the relational context of the family system

  9. A Thousand Acres: Let’s Meet the Family • Film Clip 1 – Opening Scene • Film Clip 2 – Hidden Past • Small Group Discussion

  10. A Thousand Acres: Beginning the Therapeutic Process • Film Clip: Little Birdie Girl • Brief Comments • Film Clip: Resurfacing Memories • Small Group Discussion

  11. A Thousand Acres:Working with the Family System • An Intervention: Role Play • Large Group Process • Final Sharing; Q & A

  12. Thank you for your participation!! • For more information contact: • Rita DeMaria, Ph.D. 215-628-2450 DrRita@RitaDeMaria.com • Michele Marsh, Ph.D. 215-575-9140 X 1 mmmarsh@comcast.net For copies of handouts, PowerPoint, etc. email Rita DeMaria.

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