Group and Family Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Depression in holocaust survivors: profile and treatment outcome in a geriatric day hospital program

“…The combination of antidepressant therapy with intensive group psychotherapy appears to be eective for elderly depressed patients (Steingart, 1992). Group approaches have been successfully applied in the care of patients with PTSD (Allen and Bloom, 1994). Danieli (1981) and Berger (1977) have both emphasized the need to explore Holocaust experiences with every survivor.…”

Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Perceived Relationship Safety as Predictors of Dyadic Adjustment: A Test of Mediation and Moderation

“…Additionally, Allen and Bloom (1994) investigated the effectiveness of group and family therapy on individuals suffering from PTSD. They found that these modalities provide unique benefits.…”

Trauma Therapy for Death Row Families

“…Death row families often already are victimized by economic poverty, racial discrimination, and some degree of dysfunction long before the crime leading them to experience death row occurs. The death sentence further disrupts the very attachment bonds that otherwise are the most critical resource for their trauma healing (Allen & Bloom, 1994). With otherwise intact families, I believe a therapist taking a family structural approach should try to accomplish several things: (a) strategically form secure relationships with family members to help them experientially understand dyadic emotional regulation; (b) continuously map the family's subsystems; (c) move subsystems together, helping them discover and use their innate potential for mutual emotional regulation; (d) reassign or redefine the role of the family ghost in relation to all subsystems, including the family as a whole; and (e) help the family in its process of meaning making and the pursuit of what matters.…”