Traditional methods employed in psychotherapy have limited effectiveness when it comes to healing the psychological effects of trauma, particularly complex trauma. The Comprehensive Resource Model argues for a novel therapeutic approach, which uniquely bridges neuroscience and spirituality through a combination of somatic therapy, traditional psychotherapy, and indigenous healing concepts to provide effective relief to survivors of trauma. This book describes the development and benefits of this pioneering new approach to trauma therapy.
Key Features
- Engages a scaffolding of neurobiological resources in many brain structures simultaneously.
- All three phases of trauma therapy: resourcing, processing, and integration are done simultaneously.
- Demonstrates a nested model employing brain and body-based physiological safety as the foundation of healing.
- Details three primary categories of targeted processing: implicit and explicit survival terror, ‘Little T Truths’, and ‘Big T Truths’.
- Contributes to thorough healing of complex trauma and an expansion into higher states of consciousness.
Additional Information
While a client may seem to make significant breakthroughs in understanding their feelings and experiences on a rational level by talking with a therapist, this will make no difference to their post-traumatic symptoms if the midbrain is unable to modulate its activity in response. As such, it will be of key interest to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychology, and trauma studies. It will also appeal to practising therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychiatric nurses.
