Traumatic Incident Reduction: Research and Results, 2nd Edition (Explorations in Metapsychology)Taschenbuch
What Traumatic Incident Reduction ( T I R) Does: " When accessed with the specific cognitive imagery procedure of T I R, a primary traumatic incident can be stripped of its emotional charge permitting its embedded cognitive components to be revealed and restructured. With its emotional impact depleted and its irrational ideation revised, the memory of a traumatic incident becomes innocuous and thereafter remains permanently incapable of restimulation and intrusion into present time. " -Robert H. Moore, Ph. D. What's Inside the Book: Traumatic Incident Reduction: Research & Results provides synopses of several T I R research projects from the early 1990s to today. Each article, in the researcher's own words, provides new insights into the effectiveness of Traumatic Incident Reduction. The three doctoral dissertation level studies that form the core of this book investigate the outcome results of T I R with crime victims, incarcerated females, and anxiety and panic disorders respectively ( Bisbey, Valentine, and Coughlin. ) Both informal and formal reports of the " Active Ingredient" study by Charles R. Figley and Joyce Carbonell of Florida State University investigate how T I R and other brief treatments for traumatic stress provide relief. A further case study by Teresa Descilo, M S W informs of outcomes from an ongoing project to provide help to at-risk middle-school students in an inner-city setting. An introduction by Robert H. Moore, Ph. D. provides background into how T I R provides relief for symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ( P T S D) and firmly establishes the roots of T I R in the traditions of desensitization, imaginal flooding, and Rogerian techniques. Researcher's Praise for T I R " T I R does not require years of. . .
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