Trauma-Organized Systems : Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families.
Title:
Trauma-Organized Systems : Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families.
Author:
Bentovim, Arnon.
ISBN:
9781849401852
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (153 pages)
Series:
The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
Contents:
COVER -- Acknowledgements -- CONTENTS -- Editors' Foreword -- Foreword -- INTRODUCTION: Why attempt to develop a systemic approach to family violence? -- CHAPTER ONE: The family as a violent institution: a sociological perspective -- The prevalence of violence in the family -- The family as a violent institution -- CHAPTER TWO: Family violence: explanatory models to describe violent and abusive families -- CHAPTER THREE: Developing a social-interactional-systemic account of family violence -- The social construction of family violence -- Self-fulfilling prophecies and family violence -- The effect of recognizing abuse -- Violence of men towards women and of women towards men -- CHAPTER FOUR: Family victimization processes and social-interaction explanations for family violence -- Organized systems -- The effects of trauma -- The effects of longer-term victimization and trauma -- CHAPTER FIVE: A systematic account of the different trauma-organized systems in various forms of family violence -- Attachment patterns and physical and emotional abuse and neglect -- The trauma-organized system of physical abuse -- The trauma-organized system of sexual abuse -- The trauma-organized system of violence between partners-wife battering -- CHAPTER SIX Trauma-organized systems: breaking the denial process by externalizing -- Trauma-organized systems and internalizing conversations -- Externalizing conversations -- Confronting trauma-organized systems -- The use of dolls in interviewing to "externalize" traumatic activities -- Externalizing abusive activities -- Externalizing processes in physical abuse -- Use of story stems -- CHAPTER SEVEN: A focal model to encompass the descriptions of the trauma-determined family system -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Treating the trauma-organized system -- Assessment for treatment.
Assessment of attitudes to family violence -- The assessment process -- CHAPTER NINE: The treatment process in trauma-organized systems -- Basic issues -- Putting the work in context -- The issue of social control -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
This book is about the experience of individuals who have been abused or who have abused others, but it also traces the way an abusive experience can organize a family or professional system so that changes are difficult to achieve. Arnon Bentovim has been in the forefront of the child abuse field for many years, and he discusses in this volume the way his thinking has changed to incorporate the ideas from the feminist movement and the constructionist family therapists. He looks at the way victimizing actions and the traumatic effects of abuse combine to create a trauma-organized system, which includes the individual, the family, the professional helpers, the community, and the cultural values.The author describes the characteristics of these systems and a diagnostic procedure to help the workers plan the treatment. In order to help such a family, he proposes that interventions need to be made at the different levels of this system, and the book outlines various treatment approaches, such as group work for victims and perpetrators, marital and family therapy, and individual work, particularly to clarify the issue of personal responsibility. The book is illustrated by case studies and transcripts from therapy sessions to clarify the specific techniques Bentovim uses to treat such families.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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