IFS

Started by Snowdrop, November 23, 2019, 07:54:34 AM

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Snowdrop

I've been having a lot of success with Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS).

I can recommend the book "Internal Family Systems Therapy (second edition" by Richard Schwartz and Martha Sweezy. Here's an excerpt from the Research chapter about using IFS to treat PTSD:

TREATING PTSD WITH IFS This small pilot study (authored by Hodgdon, Anderson, Southwell, Hrubec, & Schwartz, 2018) had promising results. Of the 13 participants who were diagnosed with PTSD and completed 16 sessions of IFS, only one still qualified for the diagnosis at the end of the study and at the 1-month follow-up. That is, 92% of the participants no longer met criteria for PTSD after 16 sessions, which translates into an effect size of 4.46. In addition, there were significant decreases in depression, affect dysregulation, dissociation, disrupted self-perception, interpersonal relationships, and systems of meaning.

There are various videos about IFS on YouTube if you want to find out more. Good search terms are "IFS Schwartz" and "IFS Schwartz Trauma". The following video is a good starting point, as it's part one of four on IFS and trauma: https://youtu.be/2UfmGwENz9M