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