Tools for Transforming Trauma

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Understanding how trauma leads to PTSD

  • The qualities of the traumatic experience Big “T” and Little “t” Traumas
  • The role of neglect Post Traumatic Cognitive
  • Processing and Affect Dysregulation
  • The Recovery Environment
  • Trauma Cascade
  • Individual Characteristics
  • Appraisal & Meaning
  • Spirituality
  • Classical Conditioning
  • Respondent Conditioning
  • Biology & Energy
  • The Amplification Circuit
  • Adaptive Resolutions
  • Maladaptive Resolutions
  • Basic Approaches to Treatment: The Consensus View

Chapter 2: A Neo-Ericksonian framework for treating trauma

  • Resource Based Therapy Orientation
  • Solution and Mastery Orientations as Resources
  • Well Formed Outcomes
  • The Relationships of Solutions & Problems
  • A States of Consciousness model of Trance and trauma
  • Principles of Hypnotically Based Therapy
  • The Narrative Approach
  • Framing, Deframing and Reframing Experience

Chapter 3: The Tools Framework

  • The T.O.T.E. Model
  • Interventions as assessment and feedback
  • Interventions and assesments as agents of change
  • Translating DSM diagnoses into action plans for change
  • The Interaction between Therapist Skill Base & Personal Response
  • From tools to art

Chapter 4: Tools for Safety, Ego Support & Ego

  • Growth Affect Modulation Self Soothing & Self Care
  • A small hint to facilitate the good use of breathing
  • The problem solving list
  • "Rainy Day" Letters from the self
  • Sub-modalities to reduce affect
  • Creating and Strengthening Boundaries
  • Boundaries are dynamic and require a constant upkeep
  • Boundaries contain internal states
  • Symbol's of and Suggestions for Containment
  • Stabilizing here and now reality- Getting Grounded
  • Dolan's 54321 exercise
  • The Use of Peripheral Vision to Stabilize Boundaries
  • The Energy Bubble or Shield
  • Putting the pain out of the body and on the paper
  • End State Retraining

Chapter 5: Tools for Working with Memory PTSD as a disorder of memory

  • The intrusion of traumatic memory
  • Avoiding and numbing of traumatic memory
  • Internalization of trauma and memory
  • Memory & Healing
  • Tools for Transforming Memory in Phase Two of Treatment
  • Memory Processing
  • Trauma Re-associative Conditioning
  • Yes, And
  • Abreactive Work
  • Safe remembering
  • Sub-Modality Work to Manage Affect During Memory Work
  • Creating Alternative Memories
  • Memory Work and Changes in Cognitions, Schemas and Beliefs
  • Moving from victim of others to author of creative choices
  • Memory Retrieval Approaches for Traumatic Memories
  • Preparing the patient
  • Affect/ Somatic Bridge
  • Ideomotor Questioning
  • Requests for Therapist Validation
  • Memory Distortion, Magnification and Minimization
  • Clinical & Political Issues
  • An Analysis Of The Controversy
  • Clinical Issues
  • Therapist Factors
  • Presuppositional stances that help avoid memory magnification
  • Counter-Transference And Counter Reactions That Can Support Memory Magnification And Response Magnification
  • Patient Factors
  • Possible Motivations/Mechanisms for Clients to Magnify Traumatic memories
  • Warning Flags that reported memories may contain significant distortions
  • Treatment Strategies to Minimize type II errors

Chapter 6: The Use of Thought Field Therapy in Treating Trauma


Chapter 7: Tools for the Holistic Self

  • Re-organization & re-connection
  • Own and value the parts of the self that use to be disowned and de-valued
  • Feelings and Experiences.Actions & Stories
  • Memory and Awareness and the therapy of “that what is”
  • Be connected to the multitude of resources that exist internally and externally
  • Finding the current problem that is represented in the return of the past –Taking Healthy Action
  • Cultivating Resourcefulness - For Therapists and Clients
  • Linking Resourceful States of Consciousness (SoCs)
  • Self-Image Thinking
  • Solution Oriented Questioning to Link Resources
  • Narrative Questions to link a resourceful plot line
  • Identify social pressures and modulate their influence on the person so that the person can choose how they want to live their life
  • Identity, Identification and the locus of perception
  • Externalizing Problems
  • Aligning Perceptual Positions
  • To be and to act in the present in manners that value all parts
  • Violence begets violence
  • Challenging dysfunctional beliefs and actions
  • Acceptance and Forgiveness

Chapter 8: If you meet the "tool" on the road, leave it! - Person of the therapist issues

  • Therapist as Witness
  • When the therapy goes off course
  • Acknowledging powerless (Or a person's got to know his limitations)
  • When the therapists cannot manage their own affect
  • Reasons for insufficient general affective tolerance
  • Reasons for insufficient specific affective tolerance
  • The survivor-therapist
  • Three Tools for working with the therapist-patient relationship.
  • The “Counter -Transference” Question List: A Tool for checking yourself.
  • A Solution Oriented Decision Tree Model for Correcting Problems in Treatment.
  • Solution-Oriented Check List for Therapist Development
  • When is it time to get a consult or supervision?
  • Summary 348
References 352
  • Figure 1.1 The Eco-systemic model of PTSD Figure
  • 1.2 Phase-Oriented Approaches to Treating PTSD
  • Figure 2.1 To where is a person associated
  • Figure 2.2 Punctuation of Reality
  • Figure 3.1 Chart of Tools for Transforming Trauma
  • Figure 4.1 Sub modalities to Increase & Reduce Affect.
  • Figure 4.2 Functional and Dysfunctional Boundaries
  • Figure 5.1 The Process of Memory Work
  • Figure 5. 2 Yes, And
  • Figure 5.3 Yes And
  • Figure 7.1 The Holistic Self
  • Figure 7.2 Perceptual positions
  • Figure 7.3 Instructions aligning Positions
  • Figure 8.1 10 steps of stopping self sabotage
  • Figure 8.1 A Solution Oriented Decision Tree Model
  • Figure 8.3 Solution-Oriented Check List for Therapist Development