Traumatic Incident Reduction
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491_9781932690507
What Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) Does:When accessed with the specific cognitive imagery procedure of TIR, a primarytraumatic incident can be stripped of its emotional charge permitting its embedded cognitive components to be revealed and restructured. With its emotional impact depleted and its irrational ideation revised, the memory of a traumatic incident becomes innocuous and thereafter remains permanently incapable of restimulation and intrusion into present time. -Robert H. Moore, Ph.D.Whats Inside the Book:Traumatic Incident Reduction: Research & Results provides synopses of severalTIR research projects from the early 1990s to today. Each article, in theresearchers own words, provides new insights into the effectiveness of Traumatic Incident Reduction. The three doctoral dissertation level studies that form the core of this book investigate the outcome results of TIR with crime victims, incarcerated females, and anxiety and panic disorders respectively (Bisbey, Valentine, and Coughlin.)Both informal and formal reports of the Active Ingredient study by Charles R.Figley and Joyce Carbonell of Florida State University investigate how TIR and other brief treatments for traumatic stress provide relief. A further case study by Teresa Descilo, MSW informs of outcomes from an ongoing project to provide help to at-risk middle-school students in an inner-city setting. An introduction by Robert H. Moore, Ph.D. provides background into how TIR provides relief for symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and firmly establishes the roots of TIR in the traditions of desensitization, imaginal flooding, and Rogerian techniques.Researchers Praise for TIRTIR does not require years of collegiate study to pre-qualify the provision ofassistance to others. The efficacy of TIR is not contingent on the unique talents of a particular facilitator. The procedure is standardized and does not require continuous adjustments. -Wendy Coughlin, Ph.D.From th
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