Hearing the Internal Trauma: Working with Children and Adolescents Who Have Been Sexually Abused

By Sandra Wieland

Book Overview

An innovative clinical approach to working with children and adolescents who have been sexually abused - the Internalization Model - is presented in this volume. It is designed to increase the therapist's recognition and understanding of the effects of such abuse on a young victim's internal sense of self and world.

The author argues that abuse-related internalizations, not the symptomatic behaviours resulting from these internalizations, need to be addressed in therapy. Wieland describes a psychodynamic trauma-focused therapy - which includes aspects of psychoanalytic, behavioural and cognitive therapies - which has resulted in positive changes such as children beginning to engage in age-appropriate play and adolesc

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761903658
• ISBN13: 9780761903659
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"