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What Happened?: Goals of The Exercise

This document provides a therapist's overview for an exercise to help clients who have experienced trauma. The exercise goals are to increase the ability to describe the traumatic event, express feelings about the trauma, and communicate facts and feelings. The therapist should process the exercise sensitively and ensure the client feels comfortable. Additional homework assignments address related issues like anger, anxiety, and self-esteem. The therapist must use clinical judgment and ensure they have experience working with trauma.

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What Happened?: Goals of The Exercise

This document provides a therapist's overview for an exercise to help clients who have experienced trauma. The exercise goals are to increase the ability to describe the traumatic event, express feelings about the trauma, and communicate facts and feelings. The therapist should process the exercise sensitively and ensure the client feels comfortable. Additional homework assignments address related issues like anger, anxiety, and self-esteem. The therapist must use clinical judgment and ensure they have experience working with trauma.

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Therapist’s Overview

WHAT HAPPENED?

GOALS OF THE EXERCISE

1. Increase the ability to describe the traumatic event.


2. Increase the ability to verbalize feelings associated with the trauma.
3. Express facts and feelings associated with the trauma.

ADDITIONAL HOMEWORK THAT MAY BE APPLICABLE TO POSTTRAUMATIC


STRESS DISORDER

• Anger Management Anger Control Page 31


• Anger Management Anger Management Page 36
• Anxiety Coping with Anxiety Page 45
• Anxiety Relaxation Page 63
• Self-Esteem Recognizing the Wonderful Page 286
Things about You
• Self-Esteem Fantastic Me Page 301
• Self-Esteem Wishes Page 308

ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS FOR WHICH THIS EXERCISE MAY BE USEFUL

• Grief/Loss
• Physical and Emotional Abuse
• Sexual Abuse

SUGGESTIONS FOR PROCESSING THIS EXERCISE WITH CLIENT

This assignment can help the skilled clinician work with a child who has experienced a traumatic
event. In the first section of this assignment, the child is asked to describe what happened during
the traumatic event.

Trauma can have long-term effects on a child’s feeling of self-worth and on development. It is
imperative for the therapist to be respectful of the child’s feelings and the child’s pace for
expressing the experience of trauma. Pressuring a child to express feelings can revictimize the
child.
Therapist’s Overview

As with all areas of clinical work, it is important that the therapist have experience working with
children who have been traumatized. Working outside of one’s clinical expertise can be
dangerous to the client and is unethical.

For the second worksheet, the child will be asked to draw a picture of himself/herself during the
trauma. The therapist can use this drawing to help the child express facts and feelings associated
with the trauma.

The therapist should also use his/her best clinical judgment to determine whether this section of
the assignment should be completed in the session instead of as a homework assignment. In most
situations it will be important to complete this aspect of the assignment in the therapy session.
EXERCISE XIX.C

WHAT HAPPENED?
EXERCISE XIX.C

Draw a picture of yourself and what happened.

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