This article describes a therapeutic process that combines individual and family sessions to maximize therapeutic opportunities to bring forward, understand, validate, and empower children's experience as equal participants in family therapy. The aim is to strengthen relational bonds within the family. Drawing from earlier work with families where incest had occurred, the authors present a recursive process that utilizes a "decision dialogue" to link individual and family sessions. Clinical examples are provided.

Keywords: Children and Families; Relational Trauma; Decision Dialogue

Fam Proc 47:173-195, 2008

A family therapist working with a child who has experienced relational trauma faces ...

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