Trauma-Organized Systems : Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families / / by Arnon Bentovim

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825448903321
• Autore: Bentovim Arnon
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]; ©1995
• ISBN: 0-429-92331-7; 0-429-90908-X; 0-429-48431-3; 1-283-29868-6; 9786613298683; 1-84940-185-3
• Edizione: [Rev. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (153 p.)
• Collana: Systemic thinking and practice series
• Disciplina: 155.232; 362.8292
• Soggetti: Family psychotherapy; Child sexual abuse; Child abuse
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; Acknowledgements; CONTENTS; Editors' Foreword; Foreword; INTRODUCTION: Why attempt to develop a systemic approach to family violence?; CHAPTER ONE: The family as a violent institution: a sociological perspective; CHAPTER TWO: Family violence: explanatory models to describe violent and abusive families; CHAPTER THREE: Developing a social-interactional-systemic account of family violence; CHAPTER FOUR: Family victimization processes and social-interaction explanations for family violence; CHAPTER FIVE: A systematic account of the different trauma-organized systems in various forms of family violenceCHAPTER SIXTrauma-organized systems: breaking the denial process by externalizing; CHAPTER SEVEN: A focal model to encompass the descriptions of the trauma-determined family system; CHAPTER EIGHT: Treating the trauma-organized system; CHAPTER NINE: The treatment process in ; trauma-organized systems; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is about the experience of individuals who have been abused or who have abused others, but it also traces the way an abusive experience can organize a family or professional system so that changes are difficult to achieve.The authorhas been in the forefront of the child abuse field for many years, and he discusses in this volume the way his thinking has changed to incorporate the ideas from the feminist movement and the constructionist family therapists. He looks at the way victimizing actions and the traumatic effects of abuse combine to create a trauma-organized system, which includes the individual, the family, the professional helpers, the community, and the cultural values. The author describes the characteristics of these systems and a diagnostic procedure to help the workers plan the treatment.