They usually involve some amount of abreaction (a re-living of the experience) as people work through the trauma, a lot of intensification of the feelings. I have worked as a clinical psychologist at Kaiser Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, for 31 years, and have used many other, more traditional treatments for PTSD. SI: What is unique about your method of working with trauma?ĬS: Thought Field Therapy is the most rapidly effective, and most gentle, treatment of trauma I have come across. The usual instructions for the client to call if there are any recurrence of symptoms would also be in effect, as well as follow-up session(s) to work on residuals or other material that emerges subsequently in awake or dream states. Using the Peak Performance protocol to enhance and improve confidence in coping effectively in dealing with the problem is an important component that parallels the future template. This would be continued until no more perturbations can be found, and client now thinks about the trauma or phobia with clearly changed perspectives, affect, thoughts, intensity, vividness, body sensations, perceptions in all sensory modalities, etc. Targeting any residual body sensations often brings up further information to process through, more perturbations. The complete TFT treatment for trauma would be essentially following up with what else comes up for the client after successfully processing through the targeted trauma.
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Since I had headed the clinical team in New Orleans, he asked if I could do that in Rwanda. Reverend Oas wanted to take a TFT team there and work with the genocide survivors. He was seeing the effects of the genocide trauma among the children in terms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia, bedwetting, depression, withdrawal and rage. His church has been helping to support the El Shaddai orphanage in Kigali, Rwanda, by providing necessities like food and shelter. One of the team members, Paul Oas, a psychotherapist and minister, asked me if I could work with the genocide survivors of Rwanda. Share International: How did you come to work with the genocide survivors in Rwanda?Ĭaroline Sakai: The idea came up when I was in New Orleans as part of an ATFT Foundation Trauma Relief Team working with Hurricane Katrina survivors and first responders – doctors, nurses and security people who were working with the survivors.
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Dr Sakai was interviewed by Michiko Ishikawa for Share International. The children survived the Rwandan genocide in 1994, in which 800,000 to 1 million people were slaughtered during the course of 100 days.
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They have assisted trauma victims in many parts of the world, including New Orleans and Mississippi in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina disaster Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico, after major flooding there and in Kosovo, the Congo, and Rwanda to treat genocide survivors.Ĭaroline Sakai, PhD., a psychologist and TFT practitioner, based in Hawaii, headed a team of therapists who worked with children in an orphanage in Kigali, Rwanda.
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The group’s Trauma Relief Teams, including psychologists, counsellors, doctors,and social workers, are trained in the Callahan Technique of Thought Field Therapy (TFT). The Association for Thought Field Therapy Foundation is a non-profit membership organization whose volunteers provide psychological help to people traumatized by wars, natural disasters, genocide and poverty. This is a reprint of an article published in Share International June 2008