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Chapter 15.Trauma-Centered Couples and Family Psychotherapy

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Variations in Traumatic Experience Within Families | Variations in the Family Constellation | Recursive Nature of Power Dynamics in Families | The Situation in Traumatized Families | Setting Up the Trauma-Centered Frame | Goals of Trauma-Centered Couples and Family Psychotherapy | Specific Techniques of Trauma-Centered Couples and Family Psychotherapy | Method of Trauma-Centered Couples and Family Psychotherapy | Conclusion | Study Questions

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The application of trauma-centered psychotherapy in couples and family therapy can be a very powerful intervention in the lives of trauma victims. Because trauma schemas are relational (axiom 4), the effects of prior trauma permeate the victim’s social relationships, especially with intimates such as spouse and family. Because of the frequency of contact among members of a family, habitual patterns of behavior become established and reinforced, and thus trauma schemas in one individual can alter the communication patterns of an entire family, without any recognition of their source.

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