Foreword: Encyclopedia of Trauma
What is trauma, stress, traumatology all about? This piece answers some of those questions and serves as a general introduction to Traumatology. Download: View Document
Wholist Perspective Film
This film shows visually the components of the wholist perspective, that is, the triaxial framework and survival strategies. The visual representation makes the perspective easy
Survival Strategy Workshops
Fight and Flight
Workshop 1
This seminar introduces, through clinical cases, the dilemmas of how to conceptualise stresses and traumas and their consequences. PTSD and its limitations are discussed. Survival
Definition of Survival Strategies; Their Place in Stress and Trauma
Workshop 2
Survival strategies and their place in conceptualising trauma and its opposite, fulfilment, are introduced. Download: View Document
Details of Survival Strategies
Workshop 3
Survival strategies are examined in more detail. Refer to the Survival Strategies Table from now on. Download: View Document
Application of Survival Strategies to Diagnosis & Treatment
Workshop 4
This seminar indicates the worth of survival strategies in diagnosing post-traumatic symptoms. It discusses common ingredients of trauma therapies. Download: View Document
The Life – Trauma Dialectic; From Survival to Fulfilment
Workshop 5
Life is a tapestry of many threads. The depth axis signals the way stations from instincts to existential meaning and purpose. Survival strategies are the
Biological, Psychological and Social Aspects of Survival Strategies
Workshop 6
Survival strategies have biological, psychological, and social adaptive and maladaptive components. They express the greatest human joys and pains. Download: View Document
Application of Survival Strategies to Definitions and Categorizations of Traumatic Stress and Fulfilment Phenomena
Workshop 7
Survival strategies help to categorise and articulate different pleasures, satisfactions, and their opposites. Download: View Document
Application of Survival Strategies to Conceptualizing and Categorizing Anger and Guilt, Self-Esteem and Shame, Right and Wrong, Spirituality, and Sacred
Workshop 8
Survival strategies help to categorise and articulate satisfactions and their opposites on moral, spiritual, and existential levels. Download: View Document
Right and Left Brain Functioning
Workshop 9
This seminar distinguishes right and left hemisphere brain functions. How this applies to traumatology. Download: View Document
The Wholist Perspective; a Clinical Example (FILM)
Workshop 10
Summary of the wholist perspective. Its illustration with a film. Video: [lightbox href=”http://youtu.be/uJl6Jkq5cfI”]Youtube Video[/lightbox] Download: View Document
A new synthetic framework; the wholist perspective
This paper (also available on Cogprints http://cogprints.org/384/1/Synthetic.htm ) summarises the wholist perspective. It explains the triaxial framework and talks to the survival strategies table. It serves as
A wholist perspective. Presentation to the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference Hobart
From the crucible of traumatology arise questions of morality, ethics, and philosophical questions of meaning and purpose. The wholist perspective (wholist = holistic + whole)
Body, Mind, and Soul Staff Education Centre Jewish Care Melbourne
Up-down spirituality assumes a God-given world with established morality and meaning. Down-up science shows evolution of different levels of morality and spirituality whose content is
Necessities. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Edition 2007
Beyond survival necessities are psychological and social necessities humans strive after. There are spiritual human requirements too. They include a need to know where one
From Survival to Fulfilment; A Framework for the Life-Trauma Dialectic. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel
In this book, Dr. Valent forges information from many fields of trauma and its concepts into a new, heuristically logical and pragmatic framework. The result
Trauma and Fulfillment Therapy; The Wholist Framework. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel
This book follows logically from Survival to Fulfillment, in its practical applicability to diagnose and repair tears in the human fabric. Dr. Valent reviews the
Survival Strategies and the Wholist Perspective
In this workshop we will demonstrate clinical application of survival strategies, concentrating on the three dimensions along which they radiate. The result is a wide
Clinical formulations; phenomenological and traumatodynamic considerations. Talk Melbourne Clinic
Busy clinicians are invited to take a moment to peruse what philosophical underpinnings are motivating their therapeutic approaches. Do they seek specific diagnoses to which
Triaxial framework and treatment ingredients. Symposium European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference Edinburgh
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