Basics
The first phase of good trauma therapy
What is Assessment?
The term used to describe assessing for risk and safety planning.
What is Safety Nets?
Uncontrolled substance use, ongoing violence and/or incompatible goals.
What are things that preclude the use of therapy?
A map to intimate relationships
What is Attachment Theory?
Couples must have this in order for treatment to be viable
What are compatible goals?
Understand the impact of traumatic experience on both the partners and the relationship, how this experience blocks relationship repair and the nature of the general distress
What are the goals of Assessment?
The stage Prochaska, Norcross & DiClemente would use to describe those who leave therapy after a few sessions
What is Precontemplative?
Synthesis of the biological, social, and psychological theory models
What is biopsychosocial model?
Interferes with therapis empathic attunement
What is judgementalness?
how clients engage with therapist and partners, stories of clients experiences, attention to how clients understand their problems
What is the main EFT Assessment Tool?
The best safety net of all
What is a positive therapeutic alliance?
behavior is influenced by a variety of factors that work together as a system. A person's parents, friends, school, economic class, home environment and other factors all influence how a person thinks and acts
What is Systems Theory?
Safety, Stabilization and Establishment of a Context for Change
What is known as Phase 1?
Healer, coach/educator, perturbator
What are the roles of the therapist?