Trauma and Fulfillment Therapy

Summary

ISBN: 0876309392

This book follows logically from Survival to Fulfillment , in its practical applicability to diagnose and repair tears in the human fabric. Dr. Valent initially reviews the variety of treatments applied over the last century, from Freud and Janet to the current use of drugs, debriefing, EMDR, psychodynamic therapy, and cognitive behaviour therapy. Using his wholist perspective, Dr Valent puts them in perspective and finds their common ingredients.

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Table of Contents

PART 1: Introduction to Traumatic Stress and its Treatment

• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Complexities of Treatment and the Wholist Perspective
• Chapter 2 - History of Trauma Treatment
• History to the End of the 19th Century
• Treatment According to Traumatic Situations in the 20th Century
• Overview of Current Treatment Methods
• Common Principles in the Variety of Treatments

PART 2: The Wholist Perspective

• Chapter 3 - The Triaxial Framework
• Axis 1: The Process Axis
• Axis 2: The Parameters Axis
• Axis 3: The Depth Axis
• Chapter 4 - Survival Strategies
• Rescue: Caretaking
• Attachment
• Assertiveness: Goal Achievement
• Adaptation: Goal Surrender
• Fight: Defense
• Flight: Escape
• Competition: Struggle
• Cooperation: Love
• The Wholist Perspective and Making Sense of Stress Responses

PART 3: The Wholist Perspective Applied to Common Treatment Principles

• Chapter 5 - The Wholist View andLanguage Applied to Recognition
• Wholist Receptivity Applied to Modes and Means of Communication
• Wholist Reading and Making Sense of Traumatic Stress and Fulfillment Manifestations
• The Wholist Perspective Applied to Conceptualizing
• Diagnoses and Treatments
• A Nonlinear Paradigm
• Chapter 6 - Wholist View of Nonspecific, Symptomatic, and Specific Treatments
• "Nonspecific" (Counter-Trauma) Treatment
• Symptomatic Treatments
• Specific Trauma Treatment
• A Paradigmatic Case Illustrating Trauma Therapy
• Tailoring of Treatment: Wholist Treatment Research

PART 4: Clinical Applications: Wholist Treatment

• Chapter 7 - Introduction to Clinical Application of the Wholist Perspective
• General Issues
• Hazards of Trauma Therapy
• Highlighting Treatments Along the Axes of The Triaxial Framework
• A Case Highlighting Survival Strategies
• Survival and Fulfillment Therapies
• Chapter 8 - Being There at the Trauma: Acute Treatment and Prevention
• A Jumbo Jet Disaster Exercise
• Interventions in Traumatic Situations in the Emergency Department
• Chapter 9 - Early Stress and Trauma Treatments
• Treatment of Survival Strategy Stress Response
• Fragments Presenting as Symptoms and Illnesses
• Living and Reliving Traumatic Situations
• "Cherished" Symptoms and Illnesses: Hysteria
• "Classical" Illnesses
• Reverberation with Symptoms of Others: Secondary Traumatic Stress
• Spanning Categories of Illnesses
• Tailoring Wholist Treatment to Early Treatment Situations
• Chapter 10 - Later Ramifications of Tratement Sequelae
• A Case of Relatively Recent Uncomplicated Trauma
• A Single Session of a Complex Trauma Therapy: Cross-sectional View
• Process in Complex Trauma Therapy: Longitudinal View
• Chapter 11 - Treating Helper Stresses and Illnesses
• Diagnostic Categories of Helper Stresses, Traumas, and Illnesses
• Modes and Means of Diagnosing Helper Stresses and Illnesses
• Treatment of Stressed and Traumatized Helpers
• Chapter 12 - Summary and Conclusion
• A Final Philosophical Conundrum
• Appendix 1 - Coping with a Major Personal Crisis
• Appendix 2 - Biopsychosocial Approach Patients (Incorporation of Bilogocal, Psychological, & Social Aspects of Patients)
• Appendix 3 - A Code of Ethics of the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies