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Mitigating Intergenerational Trauma Within the Parent‐Child Attachment
Author(s) -
Friend Jai
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1017/aft.2012.14
Subject(s) - family therapy , attachment theory , narrative , child psychotherapy , psychology , mental health , project commissioning , psychotherapist , narrative therapy , modalities , psychoanalysis , treatment modality , publishing , developmental psychology , sociology , art , medicine , social science , literature , surgery
Nine‐year‐old Ben was said to hate women. His mother was terrified he'd ‘grow up a woman basher’. This paper describes the work done with Ben and his family at the Hobart Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. We drew predominantly on three therapeutic modalities: Theraplay, Family Attachment Narrative Therapy and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. Our work enabled Ben's mother to navigate the aftermath of her own trauma history in order to heal Ben's attachment trauma.