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

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

Author: Stacy Wieland
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 10/28/1996
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.04w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780761903666