妹への暴力を主訴とした小4男児と家族への心理療法 Psychotherapy for sibling abuse with a 4th grade boy and his mother

Traumatic experiences which should be targeted in EMDR session are not specified in many cases when parents come in for psychotherapy to improve their children's problems. However, child's problem is an SOS signal from the family system which suffers from complexity intertwined big and/or small traumatic memories. The process of the psychotherapy was reported in chronological order in this paper. Because he mother could not love him, the sibling abuse by the 4th grade boy was happening. EMDR sessions for his mother's traumatic memories were effective to improve a vicious circle in the mother-son system. Through the therapeutic process of this case, the importance of systemic case conceptualization to apply EMDR effectively was indicated.

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Japanese

Mii Okawara

Okawara, M. (2012, May). [Psychotherapy for sibling abuse with a 4th grade boy and his mother]. Japanese Journal of EMDR Research & Practice, 4(1), 41-51. Japanese