Overview of Part II - Therapeutic essentials in trauma treatment

First stage trauma treatment: A guide for mental health professionals working with women

This section introduces critical clinical challenges and issues involved in providing trauma treatment. It explains that the standard of care for treating trauma is staged and delivered in phases.

While this guidebook deals with the first stage of trauma treatment, it is important to understand why a stage-oriented model is the standard of care for treating psychological trauma. Therapists also need to know how to determine if an abuse survivor requires this first stage of treatment. This next section provides a description and rationale for this treatment model.

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