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Containment of trauma-based thinking and behavior that results in active distress and destructive, self-sabotaging actions
Focusing on the impact of the original trauma and the influence on current functioning
Understanding that distressing symptoms of dissociation, flashbacks, sexual dysfunction, compulsivity, depression, anxiety, relational difficulties and self-mutilation can be a direct result of specific trauma(s) and/or the environment
Allowing the individual to process past trauma while challenging distortions; undertaken in small, manageable, non-revictimizing steps in a trusting environment
Combining the wise mind's present reasoning capacities with the victimized perceptions at the time of trauma to permit an integrative experience of re-examination and the revision of attributions of self-blame
Examining the "trauma-related" core beliefs, which were established on the basis of the traumatic events, and restructuring them on the basis of the revised perception now possible in the non-abusive environment
Expressing emotions that are appropriate and congruent to the degree of trauma, which were never expressed when victimized
Understanding that post abuse symptoms of trauma, while logical adaptive responses to victimization, are revictimizing in the present
Establishing and redefining adult relationships so that present relationships no longer resemble early, unequal, destructive ones
Learning healthy boundaries with others from non-victim stance based on mutual respect, compassion and egalitarianism
Establishing or re-establishing healthy expression of intimacy, sensuality and sexuality
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