Short description
This text addresses the need for a step-by-step practical treatment manual for PTSD using Traumatic Incident Reduction. It includes case studies and actual session material to illustrate each step of the treatment regime.
Long description
Therapists and counsellors, in training and practice, will welcome this concise and practical introduction to the TIR approach for helping clients with PTSD and other human traumas. The book is application-based, providing a step-by-step guide from initial assessment to the last counselling session, illustrated with many examples from actual sessions. TIR is a person-centred, structured approach which can achieve symptom resolution in a brief course of counselling (often about 20 hours) respect and value the client's experience and needs work alongside a variety of therapy methods in a holistic way minimise the risk of re-traumatisation The authors provide a review of the major theories of stress and trauma, and of other methods of working with clients that are most useful alongside the TIR approach, an approach that is useful for a wide range of 'normal life' traumas, not just PTSD.
Review
. immensely useful book for therapists..well written and manages to make some difficult concepts accessible to readers
(Profbook.com 21/08/2001)
Table of contents
- An Overview of Traumatic Incident Reduction as a Brief Therapy Approach for Post
- Traumatic Stress Disorder
- The Nature of Post
- Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Who Is Suitable? Engaging the Client
- Choosing Which Incident to Work on First
- Using Unblocking
- Working with Traumatic Incidents
- Use of Additional Questions
- When Things Don't Go as Planned
- Ending the Counselling
- References
- Appendices
- Index