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7 Reasons Why Your Trauma Cases Get Stuck
March 13, 2020
Your traumatized family can retell their trauma story by using an experiential technique called strongholds to bring about deep healing. Using the FST | Family Systems Trauma Model, I have discovered the following top 7 reasons why our trauma cases get stuck: Undercurrent(s) Selected Not Ideal “Who?” (Village) before “What?” No Reframe to Tether Playbook […]
Kill the Spider: Strongholds and the Trauma Story
March 7, 2020
Your traumatized family can retell their trauma story by using an experiential technique called strongholds to bring about deep healing. These are core cognitive distortions or lies that the child or other family members believe about themselves that can be directly traced back to the traumatic event. These cognitive distortions provide an excellent anchor point […]
Motivating Even the Toughest Parents
February 12, 2020
Family Trauma Step-by-Step Tools with Dr. Scott Sells: Episode #3 – Motivating Even the Toughest Parents Other Ways to Enjoy this Post: Downloadable Video Transcript Or Read the VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BELOW This particular topic on how to motivate tough parents to cooperate, show up, and this could extend to couples, individuals, is by far to […]
The Best Way to Improve Trauma Outcomes…
Get Client Feedback
February 7, 2020
Family Trauma Step-by-Step Tools with Dr. Scott Sells: Episode #2- Improving Trauma Outcomes By Getting Client Feedback Other Ways to Enjoy this Post: Downloadable Video Transcript Or Read the VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BELOW So today’s topic or technique is called How Client’s Feedback Will Dramatically Improve Our Trauma Outcomes, and this is going to be through […]
Engaging Parents: The FST Motivational Phone Call Technique
February 3, 2020
High Parent Involvement is the Key to Your Trauma Treatment Success Without parent involvement in your trauma treatment, child relapse rates skyrocket. To prevent relapse, it is important to begin building relationships before you meet with the family. That is why the FST| Family Systems Trauma Model incorporates the Motivational Interview (MI) Call Technique. Sobering […]
Guiding Your Families to Discover
the Root Causes of their Trauma
January 27, 2020
Family Trauma Step-by-Step Tools with Dr. Scott Sells: Episode #1- Guiding Your Families to Discover the Root Causes of Their Trauma Other Ways to Enjoy this Post: Downloadable Video Transcript Or Read the VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BELOW Let’s find out what’s causing your stress. And to do this I’m going to draw an apple tree and together […]
How Do We Get Therapy Progress to Really Stick?
January 23, 2020
This episode of Family Trauma Step-by-Step Tools covers how to get therapy progress to really stick. Other Ways to Enjoy this Post: Downloadable Video Transcript Or Read the VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BELOW Today’s technique is called the FST mini scale. Are your clients at a new normal of change? This is a really interesting strategy […]
Nutrition: Sadly, It’s Often NOT Addressed
January 20, 2020
This episode of Family Trauma Step-by-Step Tools covers Nutrition and Trauma Other Ways to Enjoy this Post: Downloadable Video Transcript Or Read the VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BELOW Today’s technique is one of my favorites. It is trauma nutrition, the FST nutritional strategy. There are two points that we’re going to cover in these 15 minutes. […]
It’s Not How You Start Treatment, It’s How You End It
January 15, 2020
This episode of Family Trauma Step-by-Step Tools covers Red Flag Checklists. Other Ways to Enjoy this Post: Downloadable Video Transcript or Read the VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BELOW Today’s technique is one of my favorites it is trauma nutrition, the FST nutritional strategy. There’s two points that we’re going to cover in these 15 minutes is one […]
The “Now What?” Question Response
January 10, 2020
When starting treatment, the focus typically starts by treating the traumatized child through individual therapy. But this approach does not include the entire traumatized family and can lead to relapse. And if the trauma story is told over and over again, inevitably we, as clinicians, get this response… “Now what? After talking about our trauma, […]