
Trauma-Organized Systems
Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families
Arnon Bentovim(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2019
Book
Hardback
152 pages
978-0-367-10458-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 author has 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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-10458-0 (9780367104580)
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Arnon Bentovim
Content
Editors' Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , The family as a violent institution: a sociological perspective , Family violence: explanatory models to describe violent and abusive families , Developing a social-interactional-systemic account of family violence , Family victimization processes and social-interaction explanations for family violence , A systematic account of the different trauma-organized systems in various forms of family violence , Trauma-organized systems: breaking the denial process by externalizing , A focal model to encompass the descriptions of the trauma-determined family system , Treating the trauma-organized system , The treatment process in trauma-organized systems