Re: Children with P.T.S.D.

You do not mention the age of the children or the circumstances of the traumas in question. Certainly those factor must guide your treatment. For instance, an older teen might be well suited for the use of hypnosis - but then again, perhaps not in the case of a female teen that is a rape victim with a male therapist. A child of 4-6 who suffered trauma due to domestic violence might response very well to the interventions of play therapy while a child of the same age with trauma due to storm destruction might be better suited for outdoor intervention involving successive approximations to the feared stimulus.

In any case, the therapy form is simply a CONTEXT to allow for interventions which help the victim find a way to 1) create reciprocal inhibition for the anxiety, imagery, memory, etc., of the traumatic event and 2) learn to associate to the needed resources for relaxed and creative coping in the future.

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Re: Children with P.T.S.D., by R. Anderson, 7/6/99 Re: Children with P.T.S.D., by Stephen Lankton, 7/7/99

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