Full Description
A multidisciplinary group of clinicians explore the connections between traumatic experiences and psychosis, charting the development of a series of interventions designed for both inpatients and outpatients over the course of two decades.
Developing Trauma Informed Services for Psychosis details how clinicians developed a trauma committee in a public mental health facility and implemented trauma informed policies and practices, including assessments and multimodal treatment options. Chapters outline trauma informed approaches that include individual, group, and family modalities. Emphasis is on core aspects of programming such as building safety, establishing trusting relationships, and empowerment. One survivor's descriptive account as well as service users' and therapists' experiences are brought to life through personal narratives and fictionalised vignettes. This volume advocates for a multidisciplinary approach that fosters the development of unique treatment paradigms and leads to a dynamic interplay between verbal and creative arts therapies.
This book will be of interest to clinicians, administrators, students, caregivers, and anyone interested in the intersection between therapy and the arts.
Contents
Introduction Part 1: Foundations of a Trauma Focused Approach in a Psychiatric Facility 1. the Relationship between Trauma and Psychosis: Historical Background and Theoretical Issues 2. Life Experience Behind and Beside Symptoms 3. Discovering Trauma Histories in People with Psychosis Leads to Political Action 4. Implementing Hospital-wide Trauma Assessments 5. Formation and Development of the Trauma Committee 6. Widening the Circle of Care: Trauma Programme for Staff Part 2: Trauma Focused Interventions: From Fragmentation to Integration 7. Exploring a Group Therapy Approach for Healing from Complex Trauma 8. Implemeting a Trauma Informed Approach on an Inpatient Unit 9. Trauma Informed Care in Outpatient Clinics 10. Family Therapy Model for Treating Trauma in People with Serious Mental Illness 11. Towards an LGBTQI+ Affirmative and Trauma Informed Approach in People with Psychosis Part 3: Trauma Focused Interventions: Collaboration with Creative Arts Therapies Opens Up New Doors in Trauma Treatment 12. Music Therapy: Exploring a Structured Trauma Informed Group Therapy Model 13. Interweaving Words and Music in Music-Verbal Therapy Trauma Groups 14. Developing Structured Art Therapy Groups to Treat Complex Trauma 15. Folding and Unfolding: Expanding Trauma Focused Art Therapy 16. Trauma Informed Dance/Movement Therapy: Embodied Moving and Dancing Conclusion
