ABSTRACT
The goals of phase one are to establish the treatment frame, build relationships, and help the child and family develop and maintain enough stability to cope with daily life and be ready for trauma work. Assessment and Early Interventions not unusual to meet a young client and their caregivers for the first time in crisis. It's often crisis that brings people to therapy. Dissociation can add many layers to phase one work, because it masks internal conflict. Internal conflict is inherent to attachment trauma. Attributions refers the ways in which understand events, actions and people based on the meanings people ascribe them. These attributions arise out of experiences, beliefs, values and personalities. Young people with histories of complex trauma have difficulties with affect regulation which disrupt their lives, the lives of family members and communities, and create risks to themselves and others. Early in treatment, safety issues are common.
