Transforming the Legacy: Couple Therapy with Survivors of Childhood Trauma
Kathryn Karusaitis Basham and Dennis Miehls
eISBN: 9780231509237
2004 (368 pages 4 illus.)
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(pages 1-383)
Table of Contents
(pages 7-8)
List of Figures and Tables
(pages 9-10)
Preface
(pages 11-14)
Acknowledgments
(pages 15-18)
Section I: Context
(pages 19-20)
1. Introduction
(pages 21-32)
2. Historical Review
(pages 33-52)
Section II: Theoretical Foundations
(pages 53-54)
3. Social Theory
(pages 55-68)
4. Family Theory
(pages 69-87)
5. Trauma Theory
(pages 88-108)
6. Object Relations Theory
(pages 109-130)
7. Attachment Theory
(pages 131-148)
Section III: Couple Therapy Practice
(pages 149-150)
8. Biopsychosocial Assessment
(pages 151-171)
9. Phase-Oriented Couple Therapy Model
(pages 172-229)
10. Clinician Responses: Working with Traumatized Couples
(pages 230-259)
11. Clinical Case Illustration
(pages 260-300)
Section IV: Specific Clinical Issues
(pages 301-302)
12. Military Couples and Families
(pages 303-320)
13. Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgendered Couples and Families
(pages 321-332)
14. Immigrant and Refugee Couples and Families
(pages 333-348)
References
(pages 349-382)
Index
(page 383)
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Transforming the Legacy: Couple Therapy with Survivors of Childhood Trauma
To serve the increasing numbers of individuals who have survived interpersonal and domestic violence, or as refugees, have sought asylum from political violence, armed conflict, or torture, Transforming the Legacy presents an innovative relationship-based and culturally informed couple therapy practice model that is grounded in a synthesis of psychological and social theories. This unique couple therapy model encompasses three phases of clinical practice: Phase I entails a process of establishing safety, stabilization, and a context for changing legacies of emotional, sexual, and/or physical abuse. Phase II guides reflection on the trauma narrative. The goal of phase III is to consolidate new perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors.
Within these phases, the model-illustrated with rich case studies-focuses on specific issues, including: intersubjectivity between the client and clinician (such as transference and countertransference, vicarious traumatization, and racial identity development); intrapersonal, interactional, and institutional factors; the role of the "victim-victimizer-bystander" dynamic in the couple and therapeutic relationships; preserving a locus of control with clients; flexibility in decisionmaking regarding clinical processes; and specific practice themes, such as the composition of a couple, the role of violence, parenting, sexuality, affairs, dual diagnoses, and dissociation.
A dramatic departure from formulaic therapeutic approaches, this biopsychosocial model emphasizes the crafting of specific treatment plans and specific clinical interventions to show how couple therapy can transform the legacies of childhood traumatic events for a wide range of populations, including military couples and families, gay lesbian/bisexual/transgendered couples and families, and immigrant and refugee couples and families. This thorough attention to issues of cultural diversity distinguish Transforming the Legacy from the current literature and make it an invaluable resource for clinicians in a wide range of professional disciplines.
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Table of Contents
Transforming the Legacy: Couple Therapy with Survivors of Childhood Trauma
Author(s):
Basham, Kathryn Karusaitis; Miehls, Dennis
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