Emotion-Focused Therapy for Trauma

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4338-1560-7
Verlag: American Psychological Association

Sonstiges, Englisch, DVD-ROM

Reihe: Specific Treatments for Specific Populations Video Series

Emotion-focused therapy for trauma (EFTT) is an evidence-based, short-term, individual therapy for adult clients dealing with issues stemming from child abuse trauma.

In this programme, Dr. Sandra C. Paivio is featured in a clinical demonstration of EFTT, and further outlines its strategies for reprocessing trauma feelings and memories and working directly with emotional processes to bring about client change.

EFTT posits that the therapeutic relationship and emotional processing of trauma memories are mechanisms of change. By emphasising access to previously inhibited adaptive feelings and meanings, the clinician and client can use the adaptive information associated with these emotions to modify maladaptive meanings associated with fear, avoidance, and shame.

In Emotion-Focused Therapy for Trauma, Dr. Paivio works with a young woman who has a history of trauma and current symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. Dr. Paivio first works to establish an alliance with the client to build safety and collaborate on the tasks and goals for therapy, then helps the client to allow the painful feelings and memories associated with traumatic events. Dr. Paivio helps her to express her anger at violation and sadness at loss, accessing self-soothing resources and compassion for self in the process.

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Über Autor(innen)

Sandra C. Paivio, PhD, CPsych, is professor in the Psychology Department and director of the Psychotherapy Research Centre at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and has 20+ years of clinical experience. She is one of the developers of emotion-focused therapy, particularly applied to complex trauma (EFTT), and has conducted clinical trials evaluating the efficacy of EFTT.

Dr. Paivio is the author of numerous publications on trauma and psychotherapy, including Working With Emotions in Psychotherapy (coauthored with Les Greenberg) and of Emotion-Focused Therapy for Complex Trauma (coauthored with Antonio Pascual-Leone).

Dr. Paivio has presented numerous international workshops and provided intensive training in EFTT for graduate students and professionals. She also is chair-elect of the Traumatic Stress Section of the Canadian Psychological Association and invited member of the APA Division 56 (Trauma Psychology) working group for developing best practice guidelines for complex trauma.