Brief Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Download or read book Brief Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder written by Stephen Bisbey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-05-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 needs work alongside a variety of therapy methods in a holistic way minimise 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.