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At some point, the initial phase of gaining a good understanding of the client’s traumatic events and experiences will be achieved, although full understanding will never be reached. Additional information will be continuously revealed throughout the remainder of the treatment, sometimes even years later. Sessions will begin to transition so that a greater preponderance of time is spent on current situations and issues that arise in the client’s life. Prior to making this transition, however, the therapist needs to have formulated the basic trauma schemas that the client developed in response to these events, as well as some of the triggers that may ignite these trauma schemas. These distorted forms of thinking, feeling, and relating are ultimately the targets of treatment, and identifying them within current circumstances will be the major activity of this phase of treatment.
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