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Walking the tightrope: ego support and exploration with a child with complex trauma
Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-02-07 , DOI: 10.1080/0075417x.2021.2014935
Eva Bervoets 1 , Patrick Meurs 1, 2, 3 , Patrick Luyten 1, 4 , Eileen Tang 1, 5 , Nicole Vliegen 1
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ABSTRACT

Children who have experienced complex trauma in early life often fail to develop robust ego functions, such as frustration tolerance and emotion regulation capacities. Often, impairments in these capacities persistently characterise these children’s social and emotional development and, as such, prove extremely challenging to the adults who care for them. This paper aims to illustrate different ways in which therapists working with these children in psychodynamic therapy have to find a precarious balance between the need to support developing ego functions, and opportunities to conduct more exploratory work. This balance resembles walking a tightrope. We illustrate this ‘balancing act’ with case excerpts from the treatment of nine-year-old Laura, growing up in foster care after a range of complex traumatic experiences. This case study seeks to illustrate that psychotherapy with children who have a history of complex trauma may be most conducive to developmental recovery, if the therapist is able and willing to almost unabatingly walk the tightrope between ego-supportive and exploratory work with the child.



中文翻译:

走钢丝:与复杂创伤儿童的自我支持和探索

摘要

早年经历过复杂创伤的儿童往往无法发展出强大的自我功能,例如挫折承受能力和情绪调节能力。通常,这些能力的障碍一直是这些孩子的社会和情感发展的特征,因此对照顾他们的成年人来说极具挑战性。本文旨在说明在心理动力学治疗中与这些儿童一起工作的治疗师必须以不同的方式在支持发展自我功能的需要和进行更多探索性工作的机会之间找到不稳定的平衡。这种平衡就像走钢丝。我们用 9 岁的劳拉的治疗案例来说明这种“平衡行为”,她在经历了一系列复杂的创伤经历后在寄养家庭中长大。

更新日期:2022-02-07
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