This groundbreaking book presents a new model for
working with survivors of abuse and other trauma. The
Healing Tasks Model, based on developmental stages of
healing with specific tasks for each stage, offers the
clinician new support for threading through the
sometimes overwhelming complexities of the survivor's
experience. At the same time, Kepner's model helps to
avoid some of the common pitfalls and risks of work in
this most challenging of clinical areas, such as pushing
clients to express and remember before they have
developed the capacity to manage such intensity, or
encouraging confrontation and interpersonal interactions
that the survivor doesn't yet have the developmental
underpinnings to support. Using the Healing Tasks Model
the clinician will find techniques for helping clients
develop emotional and systemic supports, manage
feelings, and set appropriate boundaries. Readers will
also find a guide to dealing with the difficult and
troubling issues of memory: how to approach abuse
memories, when and how to take action based on abuse
memories, when to defer action pending the development
of more supports and capacities for the survivor, and
then how to develop those essential supports and
capacities. Written for psychotherapists, psychologists,
psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, pastoral
counselors, and adult survivors of childhood abuse,
Healing Tasks provides a therapeutic model that can be
used to help abuse survivors develop the emotional
skilles to lead richer and more fulfilling lives. |
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