Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
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Simple Trauma
Non-interpersonal
More likely a single
trauma exposure
Shorter duration
Traumatic exposure may be
at later age
More family support
Secure attachment with
primary caretaker(s)
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Complex Trauma
Interpersonal
Multiple exposures of
different types of trauma
Longer duration
Onset of traumatic
exposures at earlier age
Less or no support of
primary caretaker/family
Insecure attachment
Implicit and explicit
memories of trauma
Substance abuse
Suicidality
Early onset
Extended and frequent exposure
Ubiquity
Relational context
Social marginalization
Poverty
Social discrimination
Race/ethnicity
Class
Sexual orientation
Inadequate education
Reduced access to services
Consultation
Community
Referral
School-based
Therapy
Individual
Group
Collateral
Referral
Screen
Assessment
Clinic-based
Therapy
Individual
Family
Group
Forensic
Interview
Hospital-based
Therapy
Individual
&/or Family
Case study:
Tanya
Problem area
1. Safety environmental
2. Caretaker support issues
3. Anxiety
4. Depression
5. Anger/aggression
6. Low self-esteem
7. Posttraumatic stress
8. Attachment insecurity
Tx priority
1 2 3 4 (S)
1 2 3 4 (S)
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4 (S)
1 2 3 4 (S)
1 2 3 4 (S)
(S)
(S)
(S)
Titrated exposure
The therapeutic window, intensity control
Implicit/relational as well as specific memories
Self-endangerment
Risky behaviors
Sexual acting-out
Substance abuse
Aggressive behavior
Suicidality
Survival behaviors
Prostitution
Gang involvement
Drug sales
Safety interventions
Non-intrusiveness
Visible positive regard
Reliability and stability
Transparency
Demarking the limits of confidentiality
Non-authoritarianism
Grounding
Relaxation and breath training
Visualization
Permission to time-out
Cognitive interventions
Cognitive reconsideration of trauma-based assumptions,
beliefs, and expectations
Trigger identification: Using the trigger grid
Development of a coherent narrative
Normalizing and decatastrophizing
Insight and contextualization
Titrated exposure
Intensity control
The therapeutic curve
Components of processing
Exposure, activation, disparity, counterconditioning, extinction/
resolution
Relational processing
Exposure
Activation
Disparity
Counterconditioning
Desensitization
Secure
Avoidant
Resistant or
Ambivalent
Disorganized/
disoriented
ToddlerhoodPreschoolSchool Age
Secureoptimal
Defendeddisengaged
Dependentdeprived
Controllingconfused
AdolescenceAdulthood
Secure/
Autonomous
Dismissing
Preoccupied- Unresolved
entangled/
loss/traumaenmeshed
disorganized
Parenting
Style
Secure base
Dismissive/
Avoidant
Rejecting
Preoccupied/ Disorganized/
ambivalent/ Helpless
Uncertain
Mindfulness (contd.)
Moment-by-moment attention to internal/external
experience
Openness to inner experience
Sitting with distress
Observation without attachment
Letting go
Reduced identification
Mindfulness training:
Approximations of meditation
ITCT resources
Multiple trainings on ITCT-C and ITCT-A
throughout the U.S.
ITCT-A Learning Community to be launched
in 2014. Webinar presentations, trainings
available at www.NCTSNet.org and http://
ATTC.USC.edu
ITCT treatment guides and forms available at:
http://attc.usc.edu and www.johnbriere.com
References
Briere, J. & Lanktree, C. (2013) Integrative treatment of complex
trauma for adolescents (ITCT-A) treatment guide (2nd. Edition).
University of Southern California Adolescent Trauma Training
Center. National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
http://www.attc.usc.edu.
Lanktree, C.B. et al. (2012). Treating multi- traumatized, sociallymarginalized children: Results of a naturalistic treatment
outcome study. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma,
21, 8, 813-828.
Briere, J. & Lanktree, C.B. (2012). Treating complex trauma in
adolescents and young adults. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.