Some Clients Challenge our Capacity for Compassion
May/June 2014
Most therapists find it relatively easy to feel empathy for the usual hyperaroused, vulnerable trauma client. But it can be a lot tougher to remain nonjudgmental and receptive with dissociative clients who’ve done horrible things to traumatize others.
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25 Years of Learning Trauma Treatment
May/June 2014
25 years ago, we believed that helping trauma survivors dig into dark and unspeakable horrors would set them free. But in this new age of trauma treatment, we aim to help our clients find the light.
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Highlights from Symposium 2014
May/June 2014
To get through to clients in our increasingly ADD culture, therapists must learn to evoke a deeper, more visceral engagement with them. At this year’s Networker Symposium, a lineup of innovators shared their wisdom about how to do just that.
The Case for Neurofeedback: Rewiring the brain in the consulting room
May/June 2014
The increasing popularity of neurofeedback is based on the growing evidence that a wide variety of psychological disorders can be understood as firing mistakes in the brain’s electrical activity.
Rush to Judgment: Beware of the ADHD diagnosis
May/June 2014
Part of the epidemic of misdiagnosed ADHD in young children today results from a failure to understand how trauma often leads to difficulty learning in school.
When Talk Isn’t Enough: Easing Trauma’s Lingering Shock
July/August 2014
Pioneering trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk shares his thoughts on the differences between public and private trauma.
Rewriting the Story: Entering the World of the Abused Child
January/February 2014
Therapists must offer abused children a different felt experience of who they are.
Expecting the Unexpected at PS 48
September/October 2013
To work as a school social worker in the Bronx’s high-crime, low-income Hunt’s Point neighborhood is to become an expert at expecting the unexpected.
A Group of Tibetan Refugees Find their Inner Guides
November/December 2013
How do you help 200 teenagers who’ve had to flee their country find a path to peace in a new place? A psychiatrist who’s traveled across the world to help traumatized refugees from Tibet guides them to a source of wisdom and hope within themselves.
Learning to Manage Our Fears
May/June 2013
Inevitably, given their history of trauma, many borderline clients will trigger their therapists from time to time. But forgoing the urge to blame these clients and taking responsibility for what’s happening inside you can become a turning point in therapy.
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