Bearing Witness: Working with clients who have experienced trauma—Considerations for a person-centered approach to counseling / Zeuge sein: Die Arbeit mit traumatisierten Klientinnen und Klienten. Überlegungen zu einem Personzentrierten Ansatz zur Beratung / Ser testigo: Rabajar con consultantes que han vivenciado trauma. Consideraciones para un enfoque centrado en la persona / Témoignage: Le travail avec des clients ayant vécu des expériences traumatiques. Réflexion sur une approche du counselling centrée

Rutherford, Morna C.

doi:10.1080/14779757.2007.9688439

Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies

2007

DOI: 10.1080/14779757.2007.9688439

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Bearing Witness: Working with clients who have experienced trauma—Considerations for a person-centered approach to counseling / Zeuge sein: Die Arbeit mit traumatisierten Klientinnen und Klienten. Überlegungen zu einem Personzentrierten Ansatz zur Beratung / Ser testigo: Rabajar con consultantes que han vivenciado trauma. Consideraciones para un enfoque centrado en la persona / Témoignage: Le travail avec des clients ayant vécu des expériences traumatiques. Réflexion sur une approche du counselling centrée

Morna C. Rutherford

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A person-centred political critique of current discourses in post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic growth

Lee

2017

Psychotherapy and Politics International

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This article seeks to contribute to current person‐centred research exploring post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and post‐traumatic growth (PTG), by offering a person‐centred political critique of some individualizing/pathologizing ways in which these two discourses seem to be developing. Notions of lower resilience (Regel & Joseph, ), faulty brains (Bell, ), lower intelligence (Bomyea, Risbrough, & Lang, ), faulty femininity (Lilly, Pole, Best, Metzler, & Marmar, ) and personal deficits (Joseph, Murphy, & Regel, ) are identified. Some troubling parallels with the borderline personality disorder (BPD) discourse are drawn. Yet, while the meanings/implications of a BPD diagnosis increasingly attract stringent criticism, current PTSD and PTG research is not being sufficiently challenged from a political perspective. The article argues that person‐centred approaches (PCAs) need to be more recognized as treatments for PTSD – this work is already underway (see Murphy, Archard, Regel, & Joseph, , for instance) – and that, concurrently and then increasingly, practitioners of PCAs must intervene in the PTSD discourse, also challenging themselves to conceptualize what is now termed PTSD as actually just one incongruence amongst many, rather than a psychopathology encountered by some (deficient) people.

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A person-centred political critique of current discourses in post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic growth

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A cross-sectional study to explore the mediating effect of intrinsic aspiration on the association between unconditional positive self-regard and posttraumatic growth

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Focusing manner and posttraumatic growth

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2018

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Recent scholarship in the person-centred experiential approach has theorised how organismic valuing might be an important process factor in the development of posttraumatic growth. In a test of this prediction we investigated the association between Gendlin's focusing and posttraumatic growth in 87 participants. All completed measures of focusing attitudes, posttraumatic stress, and posttraumatic growth. The results showed that higher scores on focusing attitudes were significantly associated with lower scores on posttraumatic stress (r = -.39, p < .001), and higher scores on posttraumatic growth (lowest r=.32, p<.001), and that the associations with posttraumatic growth remained even with scores on posttraumatic stress partialled out (lowest r = .33, p < .001). Implications of these findings are discussed for therapeutic work with trauma survivors. Specifically, the results provide support that the use of Gendlin's focusing and/or focusing evocative language may be effective in supporting those who suffer from severe and chronic trauma-related problems. These results provide sufficient support to warrant further clinical research using more sophisticated experimental approaches to test whether therapeutic work using focusing is able to promote posttraumatic growth.

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A person-centred political critique of current discourses in post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic growth

A person-centred political critique of current discourses in post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic growth

A cross-sectional study to explore the mediating effect of intrinsic aspiration on the association between unconditional positive self-regard and posttraumatic growth

Focusing manner and posttraumatic growth

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