DOWNLOAD (PDF) A psychoeducational tool to help you get started with Trauma-informed IFS. It introduces symptoms of trauma, window of tolerance, flashbacks, autonomic defenses, attachment styles, dissociation, and essential concepts of Internal Family Systems parts work—all in a friendly and easy-to-understand way. THIS IS A PDF, so it can easily be viewed by you or your clients by sharing your screen on Zoom or other online video platform. It contains the same helpful information as the book, We All Have Parts: An Illustrated Guide to Healing Trauma with Internal Family Systems, but updated to work better as a teaching tool, and with more IFS/Parts language, including the introduction of Self. The book and the therapist flip chart work seamlessly together.
This is a pad of 25 Symptom Checklists which helps you and your client begin trauma-informed therapy by identifying symptoms as trauma-related. It serves as an intake tool and an intervention to get the conversation started about the effects of trauma.
It is designed to work with We All Have Parts: An illustrated guide to healing trauma with Internal Family Systems, to begin Trauma-informed therapy.
Smart Therapy Tools is a place for trauma-informed therapists to find innovative training and materials for their work with clients. All our trainings and materials integrate Trauma-Informed IFS, to help clients orient themselves to a ‘Parts’ way of thinking, and begin to recover from histories of trauma and neglect.
“I love this little book! It clearly and simply conveys many aspects of IFS work with trauma and will help many survivors know what to expect in their inner worlds and how to navigate them safely.”
—Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. creator of Internal Family Systems
An illustrated IFS psychoeducational tool for survivors of childhood trauma, which has sold over 15,000 copies worldwide.
With simple language and illustrations, this little book will help teach your adult and adolescent clients how to understand their trauma symptoms and how Internal Family Systems (IFS) works to heal them. This powerful therapeutic tool translates complex ideas about trauma and parts work into material that is accessible and easy to understand. Now available in Spanish, French, and Korean!
Practical guidance and illustrations for clarifying and discussing:
Dissociation
Parts mapping
Complex PTSD
Coping strategies
Window of tolerance
Managers, Firefighters, & Exiles
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