Treating the Trauma of Sexual Abuse & Human-Sex Trafficking(HT)

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: Effectively Using 'Dream Journaling' & the 'Rules' Exercise; 3 Questions that Take Clients from Awareness to Assessment; How to Effectively Use a 'Positive Retrospection' Exercise to Alleviate Shame; Rebuilding the Loss of Childhood through 'Story Telling'; Initiating Healing through the Use of Repeated Rituals, Card Games, & Play; Using the 'Other Family' Exercise as an Effective Tools; 4 Key Factors that Lead to False Memory Generation; Diagnosing - Sexual Abuse of a Child; Beginning Phases of Treatment with Sexually Abused Children; Gender Issues in Sexual Abuse Treatment; The Adult Survivor Therapeutic Rationale; Detecting a History of Undisclosed Incest; Intervening in Abuse-Related Trauma Symptoms; Stages of Therapy for Adults Sexually Abused as Children; Confronting the Perpetrator; Issues to Reframe Abuse from an Adult Perspective; Sexual Abuse - Remembering as Healing; and Abuse - Somatic Complaints and Sleep Disturbances.