ABSTRACT
Clinicians have long recognized that trauma therapy provides a pathway to recovery, and Equine-Assisted Mental Health for Healing Trauma provides that pathway for those who work with horses and clients together. This book demonstrates a range of equine-assisted mental health approaches and step-by-step strategies for facilitating recovery from trauma for children, adults, and families. Chapters address topics such as chronic childhood trauma, accident-related trauma, complex trauma and dissociation, posttraumatic growth in combat veterans, somatic experiencing and attachment, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), reactive attachment disorder (RAD), relational trauma, and sexual trauma. Experts also provide case studies accompanied by transcript analyses to demonstrate the process of trauma healing. Clinicians will come away from the book with a wealth of theoretical and practical skills and an in-depth, trauma-informed understanding that they can use directly in their work with clients.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section One|2 pages
Trauma Originating in Childhood
chapter 2|25 pages
Treating Structural Dissociation through Equine-Assisted Trauma Therapy
chapter 5|15 pages
Working with Relational Trauma
chapter 6|23 pages
Equine-Assisted Group Therapy for Adolescent Sexual Trauma Survivors
chapter 7|16 pages
Experiential Equine-Assisted Focal Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
part Section Two|2 pages
Trauma Occurring during Adulthood