Introduction to Survival Strategies.
David Baldwin's Trauma Information, Articles:
Valent (1998)
Introduction to Survival Strategies.
This is a version of an important chapter from Valent's 1998 book, From Survival to Fulfillment: A framework for the life-trauma dialectic, published in Philadelphia by Bruner/Mazel.
Paul Valent describes eight survival strategies in response to trauma -- 'stress responses which include specific adaptive and maladaptive, biological, psychological and social constituents'. Valent's survival strategies evolved as discrete phylogenetic templates to aid survival following specific stressors. Together, survival strategies offer a framework for categorizing classes of traumatic responses and events beyond PTSD's typical fight or flight responses. When trauma responses are unsuccessful, this framework may also help clarify differences important in treatment. "
Valent (1998)
Introduction to Survival Strategies.
This is a version of an important chapter from Valent's 1998 book, From Survival to Fulfillment: A framework for the life-trauma dialectic, published in Philadelphia by Bruner/Mazel.
Paul Valent describes eight survival strategies in response to trauma -- 'stress responses which include specific adaptive and maladaptive, biological, psychological and social constituents'. Valent's survival strategies evolved as discrete phylogenetic templates to aid survival following specific stressors. Together, survival strategies offer a framework for categorizing classes of traumatic responses and events beyond PTSD's typical fight or flight responses. When trauma responses are unsuccessful, this framework may also help clarify differences important in treatment. "
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