Category: Article

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.  […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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January 2, 2020

I’m well aware that very few people keep their New Year’s resolutions. Making any change even when we are 100% sure it will benefit us is really difficult.  Most times,  New Year’s resolutions are dead and broken by mid-January.  They do us absolutely no good. I’m stating the obvious here, right? Well this resolution of […]

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December 19, 2019

There is an excellent story on the importance of knowing where to tap told by the late family therapist, Virginia Satir: After listening to the engineer’s description of the problems and asking a few questions, he went to the boiler room. He looked at the maze of twisting pipes, listened to the thump of the […]

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November 20, 2019

When treatment ends, how do we prevent our traumatized children and families from relapsing? And how do we help our families recognize the early signs of relapse before they occur? There are many articles and books written on how to begin treatment through proper assessment and diagnostic tools. But surprisingly, in comparison, there is very […]

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November 1, 2019

Treatment with traumatized families and children will often fail when the trauma therapist fails to both troubleshoot “what will you do if?” scenarios with the FST Trauma Playbook (i.e., what will you do if your child refuses to go on a special outing with you?) and conduct dress rehearsals with both the parent or caregiver […]