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Mitigating Intergenerational Trauma Within the Parent-Child Attachment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2012

Jai Friend
Jai Friend*
Affiliation:
CAMHS Hobart
*
Address for correspondence: jai.friend@dhhs.tas.gov.au
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Abstract

Nine-year-old Ben was said to hate women. His mother was terrified he'd ‘grow up a woman basher’. This paper describes the work done with Ben and his family at the Hobart Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. We drew predominantly on three therapeutic modalities: Theraplay, Family Attachment Narrative Therapy and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. Our work enabled Ben's mother to navigate the aftermath of her own trauma history in order to heal Ben's attachment trauma.

Keywords

attachmentintergenerational traumafamily therapy
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , June 2012 , pp. 114 - 127
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Copyright © The Authors 2012

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