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“Detoxification” of Vietnam War Trauma: A Combined Family‐Individual Approach
Author(s) -
ROSENHECK ROBERT,
THOMSON JANE
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1986.00559.x
Subject(s) - disjoint sets , phase (matter) , vietnam war , family therapy , detoxification (alternative medicine) , psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , medicine , psychotherapist , political science , alternative medicine , law , chemistry , mathematics , organic chemistry , pathology , combinatorics
Treatment with families of veterans suffering from the aftereffects of combat trauma in the Vietnam War often requires a preliminary phase of disjoint treatment, in which family members are seen separately, before conjoint treatment can proceed. In this disjoint phase of treatment, wives and children are introduced to the brutal realities of Vietnam combat experience and to an understanding of its sequelae. This disjoint phase of family therapy detoxifies combat experience so that it can be approached in subsequent conjoint sessions along with more traditional family therapy issues.