Techniques and Issues in Abuse-Focused Therapy with Children Adolescents: [Paperback]

How can therapists deal effectively with children or adolescents who have been sexually abused - but refuse to discuss their experiences? Working with such young people presents innumerable challenges for the therapist. In this book, Sandra Wieland describes `The Internalization Model', which provides a framework to help therapists understand the effects of sexual abuse on children's or adolescents' internal sense of self and world, even when the child does not talk about the abuse.Ways of addressing and shifting these abuse-related internalizations within the therapy are described, together with specific techniques such as imaging, genograms and time-lines. Other topics explored include: sexuality; dissociation; and resistance by the cHow can therapists deal effectively with children or adolescents who have been sexually abused - but refuse to discuss their experiences? Working with such young people presents innumerable challenges for the therapist. In this book, Sandra Wieland describes `The Internalization Model', which provides a framework to help therapists understand the effects of sexual abuse on children's or adolescents' internal sense of self and world, even when the child does not talk about the abuse.Ways of addressing and shifting these abuse-related internalizations within the therapy are described, together with specific techniques such as imaging, genograms and time-lines. Other topics explored include: sexuality; dissociation; and resistance by the cPART ONE: THE CHILD'S TRAUMA
Understanding the Child's Trauma
The Internalization Model
PART TWO: TECHNIQUES
Addressing the Child's Internalizations
Therapy
Working Within
Imaging
Placing the Abuse in Context
Genograms, Time-Lines, Messages and Myths
PART THREE: ISSUES
Engaging the Parts
Working with Dissociation
Reconnecting to the Body