Couples, Trauma, and Catastrophes examines many topics that will improve your effectiveness with your clients, such as: trying to substitute another person's identity as your own and the harm it causes you and your relationship; describing how to help couples hold, tell, master, and honor their traumas through therapy; dealing with the death of a child through intimacy therapy and emotional responding; describing congenital pseudarthrosis (CPT) and recommendations to lessen stress for the parents, such as sharing information and advice in a certain manner to avoid anger and hurt feelings and participating in a support group; and examining "survivor guilt" and how it negatively affects an individual and his/her relationships.

Brothers, Barbara Jo, MSW, BCD (Tulane Univ)

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