Healing Trauma in Group Settings: The Art of Co-Leader Attunement [Paperback]

Healing Trauma in Group Settings offers a unique focus on the highly valuable role of attuned co-leader relationships in the practice of healing trauma.

Drawing on their extensive experience of co-leadership, the authors demonstrate how to maximize the potential for effective trauma work while remaining attuned to the needs of individual group members and the group as a whole. With case studies, transcripts, and vignettes interwoven throughout, chapters suggest ways in which clinicians can model co-leader relationships as a means for developing a sense of interpersonal safety, exploring difficult material, and building opportunities for healing to take place.

Demonstrating how concepts of attunement can be utilized in real-world settings, Healing Trauma in Group Settings enables mental health professionals to forge connections with clients while drawing on the potential of co-leadership in group therapy.

Part I. 1. The Role of Co-Leader Attunement in Service to Healing 2. Attuned Therapeutic Presence and Relationship 3. Preparation of the Attuned Therapists 4. Neurobiological Mechanisms Underlying Co-Leadership Part II. 5. Co-Creating Healing Dramas 6. Co-Leading Trauma Groups Across Disciplines 7. Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Value of Co-Led Trauma Group Psychotherapy 8. Within the Circle: Guidance and Attunement Within the Supervisor/Supervisee Relationship 9. Co-Leadership as Stimulus for Surrogate Parenting Within a Healing Community 10. Attunement Within the Supersized Group 11. Attunement Vignettes

 

Healing Trauma in Group Settings offers a unique focus on the highly valuable role of attuned co-leader relationships in the practice of healing trauma.