What causes traumatized children and families to get stuck and unable to move forward? How can we change the outcome of impossible cases? Over a 30-year career in mental health, I’ve set forth to answer these questions.
I know I’m not alone. I often hear in my workshops and webinars that impossible trauma cases are commonplace and challenge even the most experienced trauma therapists.
After eight years of research in 15 states with more than 1,000 families, we developed the FST | Family Systems Trauma Model to provide step-by-step tools to help therapists heal families with trauma. The research and book produced over 18 Core Techniques. The core technique that helped the therapist get unstuck with complex trauma cases was the FST Technique of “Undercurrents”.
Read the full article on familytrauma.com.
Scott P. Sells, PhD, MSW, LCSW, LMFT, is the author of three books, Treating the Tough Adolescent: A Family-Based, Step-by-Step Guide (1998), Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 7 Steps to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love (2001), and Treating the Traumatized Child: A Step-by-Step Family Systems Approach (2017).
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