Healing the Fractured Child: Diagnosis and Treatment of Youth With Dissociation

by Frances S. Waters DCSW, LMSW, LMFT

Overview

Written by one of the nation’s leading practitioners in the field of childhood trauma, abuse, and dissociation, this comprehensive resource fills a void in the literature to provide indepth knowledge of current interventions for treating dissociation in youth. It describes a detailed, careful assessment process and creative, evidence-supported techniques for helping children and their families to heal from chaotic, traumatizing experiences. With both a theoretical and practical focus, the book offers proven strategies for successfully treating children and adolescents with varying degrees ofdisissociation and comorbid symptoms. It also integrates adjunct therapies in environments beyond those of traditional psychotherapy, such as school, and describes howtheir strategies can be used effectively to augment therapy and understand dissociative children.

Based on a model integrating five prominent therapeutic modalities, and underscoring the importance of attachment style, the book focuses on the neurobiology of trauma, a high comorbidity of symptoms, specialized clinical interventions, psychopharmacology, and family intervention techniques. Also addressed are adjunct therapies in art and EMDR. In addition, the book provides a window into the effects of traumatic events such as medical illness that may be overlooked, and safe techniques with dissociative youth who are exhibiting dangerous behaviors. Rich clinical examples demonstrate the various phases of treatment and offer a window into the internal world of dissociative children.

Key Features:

• Integrates psychotherapy with EMDR, art therapy, neurobiology, and psychopharmacology
• Distills current research on neurobiology of trauma and how to intervene with specially designed treatment strategies
• Provides in-depth knowledge of the latest creative interventions for treatment of childhood dissociation and comorbid symptoms
• Sensitizes the therapist to often overlooked traumatic events, such as medical illness, that can exacerbate symptoms

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826199645
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	03/28/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	472
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Frances S. Waters, DCSW, LMSW, LMFT, is a clinical social worker and a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice in Marquette, Michigan.

Table of Contents

Preface

Forward

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Contributors

Chapter 1: The Star Theoretical Model: An Integrative Model for Assessing and Treating Childhood Dissociation by Fran S. Waters

Chapter 2: What’s Going on with This Child? Recognizing Warning Signs of Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents by Fran S. Waters

Chapter 3: Deciphering what is Dissociation: Differential Diagnoses By Fran S. Waters

Chapter 4: Mindful Approach to Phase Oriented Treatment by Fran S. Waters

Chapter 5: Uncovering the Child’s Fractured Self: Assessing for Dissociation by Fran S. Waters

Chapter 6: “I Guess They’re Going to Keep Me. I Tried Everything…”: Building Attachment and Partnering with the Family by Fran S. Waters

Chapter 7: “My Invisible Team:” Identifying and Stabilizing Self-States by Fran S. Waters

Chapter 8: Calming the Stress Response System and Managing Triggers by Fran S. Waters

Chapter 9: Medication as an Intervention in the Treatment of Dissociative Disorders and Complex Trauma with Children and Adolescents by Adrian J. Stierum & Fran S. Waters

Chapter 10: Mastering Traumatic Memories by Fran S. Waters

Chapter 11: Hidden Voices: Creative Art Therapy Interventions for Adolescents with Dissociation by Diane Raven & Fran S. Waters

Chapter 12: Integrating Dissociative Treatment and EMDR Therapy with Children with Trauma and Dissociation by Fran S. Waters

Chapter 13: “It’s Like You’re in a New World” Integrating the Fractured Child