Brief Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder : Traumatic Incident Reduction and Related Techniques Paperback / softback

by Stephen (The Bisbeys Partnership and Senior Research/Clinician, London, UK) Bisbey, Lori Beth (Boston University, MA; California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego, C Bisbey

Part of the Wiley Series in Brief Therapy & Counselling series

Paperback / softback

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Description

Therapists and counsellors, in training and practice, will welcome this concise and practical introduction to the TIR approach for helping clients with PTSD and other human traumas.

The book is application-based, providing a step-by-step guide from initial assessment to the last counselling session, illustrated with many examples from actual sessions.

TIR is a person-centred, structured approach which can achieve symptom resolution in a brief course of counselling (often about 20 hours)respect and value the client's experience and needswork alongside a variety of therapy methods in a holistic wayminimise the risk of re-traumatization The authors provide a review of the major theories of stress and trauma, and of other methods of working with clients that are most useful alongside the TIR approach, an approach that is useful for a wide range of 'normal life' traumas, not just PTSD.