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Description for Healing Tasks
Paperback. Num Pages: 334 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE1; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
This groundbreaking book presents a new model for working with survivors of abuse and other trauma. The Healing Tasks Model, based on developmental stages of healing with specific tasks for each stage, offers the clinician new support for threading through the sometimes overwhelming complexities of the survivor's experience. At the same time, Kepner's model helps to avoid some of the common pitfalls and risks of work in this most challenging of clinical areas, such as pushing clients to express and remember before they have developed the capacity to manage such intensity, or encouraging confrontation and interpersonal interactions that ... Read more
This groundbreaking book presents a new model for working with survivors of abuse and other trauma. The Healing Tasks Model, based on developmental stages of healing with specific tasks for each stage, offers the clinician new support for threading through the sometimes overwhelming complexities of the survivor's experience. At the same time, Kepner's model helps to avoid some of the common pitfalls and risks of work in this most challenging of clinical areas, such as pushing clients to express and remember before they have developed the capacity to manage such intensity, or encouraging confrontation and interpersonal interactions that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
Hillsdale, United States
ISBN
9780881634020
SKU
V9780881634020
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About James I. Kepner
James I. Kepner, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio. where he is also on the professional staff of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. He is author of Body Process: Working with the Body in Psychotherapy, a selection of the Behavioral Sciences Book Club.
Reviews for Healing Tasks
I am very enthusiastic about this book, its treatment orientation, and its emphasis on healing tasks undertaken in a graduated sequence. It makes a substantial contribution to the clinical strategies currently available for the treatment of adult survivors of childhood abuse, and as such, is a resource for therapists struggling with treatment issues generated by the repressed memory/delayed memory ... Read more