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Treating Family Relational Trauma: A Recursive Process Using a Decision Dialogue
Author(s) -
SHEINBERG MARCIA,
TRUE FIONA
Publication year - 2008
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.1545-5300.2008.00247.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , process (computing) , psychology , psychotherapist , social psychology , computer science , operating system
This article describes a therapeutic process that combines individual and family sessions to maximize therapeutic opportunities to bring forward, understand, validate, and empower children's experience as equal participants in family therapy. The aim is to strengthen relational bonds within the family. Drawing from earlier work with families where incest had occurred, the authors present a recursive process that utilizes a “decision dialogue” to link individual and family sessions. Clinical examples are provided.