Multiplex CBT for Traumatized Multicultural Populations

Devon E. Hinton, M.D, Ph.D., is a psychiatrist and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, and at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Introduction; Session 1: Education about Trauma-Related Disorder and Introduction of Emotion Regulation Techniques; Session 2: Applied Stretching and the Toe-to-Head Muscle Relaxation with Visualization; Session 3: Review of the Toe-to-Head Muscle Relaxation with Visualization and the Introduction of the Anxiety Protocol; Session 4: Education about Trauma and Introduction of the Trauma-Recall Protocol; Session 5: Education about Trauma-Related Disorder, Modification of Catastrophic Cognitions, and Teaching Emotional Distancing; Session 6: Interoceptive Exposure with Re-association I: Head Rotation; Session 7: Interoceptive Exposure with Re-association II: Hyperventilation; Session 8: Education about Breathing and Its Use for Relaxation; Session 9: Sleep Disturbance; Session 10: Worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Session 11: Anger and Anger Protocol; Session 12: Somatic Complaints I and Review; Session 13: Somatic Complaints II and Review; Session 14: Cultural Syndromes and Final Review; Appendix A: Stretching Handout; Appendix B: Toe-to-Head Relaxation with Visualization; Appendix C: Anxiety Protocol; Appendix D: Trauma-Recall Protocol; Appendix E: Anger Protocol; Appendix F: Worry Questionnaire; Appendix G: 'Thinking a Lot' Questionnaire; Index.