Overview
- Integrates systemic and psychoanalytic approaches to trauma through the lens of attachment theory
- Examines trauma as experienced and worked with in children and adults, families and individuals
- Demonstrates a range of interventions informed by neuroscience research, mindfulness, and body psychotherapy
Part of the book series: Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy (PTCP)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is an accessible guide for understanding and treating psychological trauma. Drawing on Dr. Woodcock’s extensive experience and the latest research, it offers an approach that integrates systemic therapy and psychoanalytic perspectives through the lens of attachment theory. The book’s chapters cover topics such as trauma and pain; traumatic death; how to respond when disaster strikes; social systems that promote attachment versus systems that create trauma; and how to look after ourselves as therapists, family, and friends of trauma survivors. Because no single therapeutic paradigm is sufficient to capture the complexity of trauma, the book brings together a wide set of therapeutic traditions and shows in detail how to apply a variety of treatment approaches, gathered from psychoanalytic, cognitive behavioral, intersubjective, mindfulness, and body psychotherapy traditions, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
The book’s vignettes and casestudies provide clear illustrations of the theory outlined and demonstrate the use of interventions in a range of settings. It will appeal to qualified and training practitioners in the clinical and care professions and researchers from across the psychological sciences with an interest in trauma, as well as to a more general readership affected by issues relating to trauma.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jeremy Woodcock is in independent practice as a psychotherapist, supervisor, teacher, and writer. He has spent his professional life as a psychotherapist working with survivors of trauma. He was Consultant Family Therapist and Head of Groupwork at Freedom from Torture and Director of Family therapy training at the University of Bristol (UK), and is advisor and consultant to a wide variety of organizations working with trauma and its after effects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Families and Individuals Living with Trauma
Book Subtitle: A Guide for Therapists, Relatives, and Friends
Authors: Jeremy Woodcock
Series Title: Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79039-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79038-7Published: 19 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79039-4Published: 01 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-9127
Series E-ISSN: 2662-9135
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 205
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Family, Group and Systematic Therapy, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Social Work, Medicine/Public Health, general