Pathways to Trauma Healing Using Positive Psychotherapy: Experience with Severely Traumatized Adult War Survivors
摘要
This chapter focuses on providing pathways to trauma healing using methods of Positive Psychotherapy (PPT after Peseschkian). The PPT Trauma healing process follows the five steps of Positive Psychotherapy: Distancing, Inventory, Situational Encouragement, Verbalization, and Broadening of Goals. The healing starts with Distancing, where therapists maintain empathy while assessing the trauma following the proposed procedures like preparation, history collection, and identifying actual conflicts. In the Inventory phase, clients appraise their own emotional response, map their own past traumatic experience, and identify their key conflicts, basic conflicts, and inner conflicts. In order to address traumatic experience effectively, the therapist utilized three PPT models as a basic tool for healing traumatic experiences. The three tools are the Model Dimension, the Relation Dimension, and the Responsibility Dimension. The Model Dimension helps to identify past traumatic experiences. The Relationship Dimension will help to identify and work present contributing factors. The Responsibility Dimension helps to address the potential relapse of traumatic experiences in the future. Situational Encouragement encompasses reinforcing adaptive coping strategies, validating feelings, providing appropriate resources, and enhancing stabilization and motivation for hope. The step of Verbalization targets assertive communication to help clients to identify which aspects of traumatic consequences they can change and which they cannot change, and assisting the trauma healing process more successfully. Finally, in the Broadening of Goals the therapist helps clients in setting future-oriented goals, objectives, fostering healing, resilience, and a renewed sense of purpose as they move beyond their trauma.