Brief Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Traumatic Incident Reducation and Related Techniques
Traumatic Incident Reduction is a person-centered, structured approach that can:
- Achieve symptom resolution in a brief course of counseling (often about 20 hours)
- Respect and value the client's experience and needs
- Work alongside a variety of therapy methods in a holistic way
- Minimize the risk of re-traumatization
Professional training in Traumatic Incident Reduction and related techniques, with full theory, practical exercises and the opportunity to apply the techniques within the course of the training, is needed to get the full benefit from the subject.
Brief Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Incident Reduction and Related Techniques (Bisbey, 1998) provides a useful overview, including:
- The nature of trauma
- The importance of exposure (having a client confront the source of distress) in working with trauma
- Creating safety for doing trauma work
- Determining whether TIR is appropriate for a particular client
- The concept of end points in TIR — knowing when the client is finished with a trauma
This book contains several case histories that are used to illustrate various technical points and show the kinds of results attainable through this method.