Brief Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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.

Neueste Forschungsergebnisse zeigen, daß die Kurztherapie des posttraumatischen Streßsyndroms sehr erfolgreich sein kann, erfolgreicher als die traditionellen Langzeitbehandlungen. Eine neue, einfache und leicht zu erlernende Technik, Traumatic Incident Reduction, wird in diesem Buch vorgestellt. Ein hervorragender Begleiter einschlägiger Kurse, ergänzt durch viele Fallbeispiele und reales Sitzungsmaterial!

About the Authors viii

Series Preface x

Preface xi

Acknowledgements xiii

How to Use This Book xiv

1 An Overview of Traumatincident Reduction as a Brief Therapy Approach for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 1

2 The Nature of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 19

3 Who Is Suitable 45

4 Engaging the Client 55

5 Choosing Which Incident to Work on First 80

6 Using Unblocking 85

7 Working with Traumatic Incidents 99

8 Use of Additional Questions 127

9 When Things Don't Go as Planned 134

10 Ending the Counselling 154

References 160

Appendix 1 Counselling Assessment Form 163

Appendix 2 Expanded List of Unblocking Concepts 168

Appendix 3 Revised Shock, Impact Resolution Model 169

Index 170

"... immensely useful book for therapists... well written and manages to make some difficult concepts accessible to readers." (Profbook.com 21/08/2001)

Stephen Bisbey is the author of Brief Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Traumatic Incident Reduction and Related Techniques, published by Wiley.

Lori Beth Bisbey is the author of Brief Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Traumatic Incident Reduction and Related Techniques, published by Wiley.