What Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) Does:
"When accessed with the specific cognitive imagery procedure of TIR, a
primary traumatic incident can be stripped of its emotional charge
permitting its embedded cognitive components to be revealed and
restructured. With its emotional impact depleted and its irrational
ideation revised, the memory of a traumatic incident becomes innocuous
and thereafter remains permanently incapable of restimulation and
intrusion into present time." -Robert H. Moore, Ph.D.
What's Inside the Book:
Traumatic Incident Reduction: Research & Results provides synopses of
several TIR research projects from the early 1990s to today. Each
article, in the researcher's own words, provides new insights into the
effectiveness of Traumatic Incident Reduction. The three doctoral
dissertation level studies that form the core of this book investigate
the outcome results of TIR with crime victims, incarcerated females, and
anxiety and panic disorders respectively (Bisbey, Valentine, and
Coughlin.)
Both informal and formal reports of the "Active Ingredient" study by
Charles R. Figley and Joyce Carbonell of Florida State University
investigate how TIR and other brief treatments for traumatic stress
provide relief. A further case study by Teresa Descilo, MSW informs of
outcomes from an ongoing project to provide help to at-risk
middle-school students in an inner-city setting.
An introduction by Robert H. Moore, Ph.D. provides background into how
TIR provides relief for symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD) and firmly establishes the roots of TIR in the traditions of
desensitization, imaginal flooding, and Rogerian techniques.
Researcher's Praise for TIR
"TIR does not require years of collegiate study to pre-qualify the
provision of assistance to others. The efficacy of TIR is not contingent
on the unique talents of a particular facilitator. The procedure is
standardized and does not require continuous adjustments." -Wendy
Coughlin, Ph.D.
From the EXPLORATIONS IN METAPSYCHOLOGY SERIES
Series Editor: ROBERT RICH, PH.D.
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