Trauma: Narrative Responses to Traumatic Experience

by Dr David Denborough

In recent years, the field of ‘trauma work’ has grown exponentially and the increased interest in these matters offers many possibilities. This wide-ranging, thoughtful and practice-based book provides clear explanations about how to use narrative ideas to respond to adults, couples and/or children who have endured traumatic experience. Key themes * ways of ensuring that children (and adults) are not re-traumatised during counselling; * ‘double listening’ – to listen not only to the story of trauma but also to the story of how the person has responded to the experiences they have endured; * new approaches to ‘trauma de-briefing’; * ways to unearth and acknowledge the values, skills and knowledge of those who have experienced multiple traumas; * creative methods for responding to workers’ experience; and * ideas for taking care not to replicate forms of psychological colonization when understandings about trauma work are ‘exported’ across cultures.

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

Published June 28, 2006