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Helping Traumatized Families
The new edition of the classic Helping Traumatized Families not only offers clinicians a unified, evidence-based theory of the systemic impact of traumatic stress-it also details a systematic approach to helping families heal by promoting their natural healing resources. Though the impact of trauma on a family can be growth producing, some families either struggle or fail to adapt successfully. Helping Traumatized Families guides practitioners around common pitfalls and toward a series of evidence-based strategies that they can use to help families feel empowered and ultimately to thrive by developing tools for enhancing resilience and self-regulation.
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Family Ritual and Routine: Comparison of Clinical and Non-Clinical Families
Research demonstrates that the constructive use of family rituals is reliably linked to family health and to psychosocial adjustment. This study explores the relationship between family rituals and child well-being. Two samples participated: 21 families whose adolescent was receiving psychiatric treatment and 21 families in which the adolescent was a public school student. A parent and the adolescent were individually interviewed regarding family rituals and completed standardized measures of adolescent and family functioning. Analyses demonstrated that, in addition to significant sample differences in the expected direction on measures of functioning, the non-clinical families scored significantly higher on the index of family rituality than did the treatment families; this is additional evidence that family rituals are a correlate of child well-being. Further analysis of the data pointed to \"people resources\" as a robust dimension in its association to adolescent functioning. The role family ritual and routine plays in defining family relationships, both within the nuclear family and with other important adults, was significantly related to clinical status. This work may point to an important, yet overlooked, dimension of family ritual life, the relational qualities of rituals and routines. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Journal Article
Exploring Neighborhood Ritual and Routine Processes Related To Healthy Adolescent Development
This paper reports findings from a qualitative investigation of positive neighborhood processes theoretically and empirically linked to adolescent well-being. We designed the study to build a better understanding of these processes, not as an explicit test of their link to well-being. Drawing from an ecological systems framework and literature suggesting neighborhood influences on adolescent well-being, the analysis focused on focus groups held in four neighborhoods with three distinct populations—community resident leaders, adult residents, and adolescent residents. Residents and adolescents described differing personal experiences of community life, including their neighborhoods' daily routines and their relationships with other neighbors; in comparison, neighborhood leaders provided information about the formal processes that operate within each neighborhood. Adolescents raised concerns about neighborhood safety, the quality and function of relationships between adults and adolescents, and lack of adolescent activities and roles. They reported that neighborhood resources were more available for younger children than for their own age group.
Journal Article
RITUALS AND PATTERNS IN CHILDREN'S LIVES
The essays cover a vast range of rituals such as language use in immigrant families, indepths description of Hindu rites of passage, function and memories of Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, and also historical reviews of sewing circles and girls' samplers during colonial times, back to school illustrations from popular magazines, doll play and ethnicity in the late 1800's and early 1900's, newsboy funerals between 1850-1910, and kids growing up watching American Westerns. [...] \"Do modern American children play with ethnically representative dolls and does the inclusion of ethnically representative dolls affect racial identity formation today?\" and \"Given the current high murder rate among young ethnic minority males living in urban poverty, how are these deaths commemorated?\" As a psychologist and a scholar of family rituals and routines, I have had the pleasure over the course of my career to work closely with Dr. Linda Bennett, an anthropologist and researcher.
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Phase IV
Once the family has the necessary skills, Phase IV introduces therapeutic processes designed to help families actively address their specific traumas and related distress. This phase involves working with family members to reach some consensus about their experiences and, along the way, reframe their joint view in a way that makes their reactions more manageable and functional. There are three essential steps in the sharing and healing process: telling the trauma story, understanding the story, and building a healing theory.
Book Chapter
Foundations of the Empowerment Treatment Approach
You might ask at this point, \"So, how do you help families dealing with terrible things that have happened to them?\" Simply put, we try to create the most conducive therapeutic environment possible and attempt to empower the family to help themselves. In this chapter and the five to follow we describe how to do this.
Book Chapter