Dissociation : Vol. 6, No. 1, p. 054-065 : Interventions with children in dissociative families: a family treatment model
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1993-03
Authors
Benjamin, Lynn R.
Benjamin, Robert
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Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation
Abstract
Interventions with children are surveyed from the literature of the diverse fields of MPD, play therapy, family therapy, and sexual abuse and trauma. Within a family treatment model, play therapy and hypnotic interventions can be useful in helping a child master the physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of trauma. When parents are able to participate in the child's therapy, they can become a very important ally in the therapeutic process. We emphasize rebuilding of trust in the relationship between the parents and the child. It is our belief that treatment of the child-parent subsystem of a dissociative family has the most potential to interrupt a transgenerational chain of dysfunctional family patterns.
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p. 054-065