Description
Book SynopsisDelivers a unique, comprehensive treatment that galvanizes inner resources for reorganizing personality and healing childhood attachment rifts
At the heart of this innovative text is a strengths-based, Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy for Adults (AFTT-A) that facilitates healthier functioning and attachment patterns for adult clients. This model uses a multimodal, step-by-step approach to restructuring the internal personality system to reclaim the authentic Self by providing new attachment experiences for Child parts of Self and negotiating new adult-life roles. AFTT-A orients all inner personality components to the present moment in which unmet childhood needs for nurturing and protection can be met within clients themselves. The book delivers a sequence of scripted protocols that accesses and activates the client''s own strengths, creating an internal system of resources and using bilateral stimulation to deepen positive affective shifts.
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