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Commentary: The Conversational Model and Child and Family Counselling: Treating Chronic Complex Trauma in a Systemic Framework

Commentary: The Conversational Model and Child and Family Counselling: Treating Chronic Complex... The importance of addressing children's problems in the context of their families is stressed by the authors of this paper. Their reasons for doing so are firstly, the system expects therapeutic services to be rendered to traumatised children, second the parents continue to be troubled by their own traumatic experiences, thirdly intergenerational trauma has the potential to present in children as behavioural/emotional problems and therefore the whole family and the parents’ trauma needs to be addressed using a systems perspective. With this in mind they proceed to describe a model of intervention, that is, the Conversational Model (Meares, ), an integrated model of long term therapy that draws on attachment and trauma theory, infant development, linguistics and advances in brain dynamics; and Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (Haliburn, ) based on the Conversational Model, along with a case study to illustrate the use of this intervention. Contrary to this, mental health services, as the authors describe, ‘view parents and their own trauma as outside of service provision’ leading to fragmentation of care, which goes against basic good practice (Isobel, ).Of particular importance in the field of family therapy is the need to see the symptomatic child as part of a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

Commentary: The Conversational Model and Child and Family Counselling: Treating Chronic Complex Trauma in a Systemic Framework

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2017 Australian Association of Family Therapy.
ISSN
0814-723X
eISSN
1467-8438
DOI
10.1002/anzf.1215
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Abstract

The importance of addressing children's problems in the context of their families is stressed by the authors of this paper. Their reasons for doing so are firstly, the system expects therapeutic services to be rendered to traumatised children, second the parents continue to be troubled by their own traumatic experiences, thirdly intergenerational trauma has the potential to present in children as behavioural/emotional problems and therefore the whole family and the parents’ trauma needs to be addressed using a systems perspective. With this in mind they proceed to describe a model of intervention, that is, the Conversational Model (Meares, ), an integrated model of long term therapy that draws on attachment and trauma theory, infant development, linguistics and advances in brain dynamics; and Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (Haliburn, ) based on the Conversational Model, along with a case study to illustrate the use of this intervention. Contrary to this, mental health services, as the authors describe, ‘view parents and their own trauma as outside of service provision’ leading to fragmentation of care, which goes against basic good practice (Isobel, ).Of particular importance in the field of family therapy is the need to see the symptomatic child as part of a

Journal

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family TherapyWiley

Published: Jun 1, 2017

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