Christine A. Constois在理解,诊断和治疗性虐待的幸存者中,诊断和治疗创伤后的应激障碍(PTSD),特别是乱患。从她的研究生学习开始并在整个职业生涯中持续,她在她对她服务的患者的福祉的承诺下,她一直在突破性,并扩大关于分离障碍和应激障碍的知识。她目前在华盛顿的独立实践中。
托管收到了她的博士学位。1979年在1978年至1979年在马里兰大学咨询中心实习后,1979年从马里兰大学咨询和人事服务部咨询。她的论文(在童年或青春期经历乱伦的成年女性的志愿者样本的特点)和她在她的研究生培训期间与强奸危机中心的志愿者合作,标志着她的文章进入性虐待和其余的后遗症。
收到她的博士后,召开席先生迁至俄亥俄州克利夫兰,在那里她在克利夫兰州立大学举办了员工辅导员职位。On her return to Washington, D.C., she served as a staff counselor at the counseling center at the University of Maryland, as a counseling psychologist at the U.S. General Accounting Office’s Counseling and Career Development Center, and as a staff psychologist at the Women’s Medical Center of Washington, D.C. In 1983, Courtois moved to independent practice in Washington, D.C., where she maintains her own practice, with associates, focused on individual and group time-limited and long-term counseling and psychotherapy; clinical supervision and consultation; and international, national, regional, and local training and consultation services on a variety of mental health and organizational topics.
此外,从1989年开始并继续到2007年,Constois是一个Cofounder(与Joan Turkus)的联合国和临床顾问,用于通过滥用和体验错误和分离障碍而受到创伤的个人的住院专用治疗单位。原始单位(滥用和分离障碍恢复单位)于1989年成立于弗吉尼亚瀑布教堂的HCA Dominion医院。1991年,该单位被迁至华盛顿(华盛顿,D.C.)的精神病学院,为中心:近期疾病计划,并加入了部分住院计划。加强优势和赋权的原则,从召开咨询心理学和女权主义培训中汲取的,作为该计划的基础原则。
Although Courtois’s primary commitment has been to the highest quality of her own treatment for survivors of trauma (particularly sexual trauma and incest), she also maintains a deep commitment to both scientific and scholarly understanding of sexual assault and its aftermath and to education and training for practitioners, researchers, and theorists. As she has been in the practice arena, Courtois has been tireless and prolific in her contributions in these arenas.
Constois在乱伦和性虐待中写了三本书。治愈乱伦伤害:1988年W.W.Norton的成人幸存者在1988年由W.W.Norton发表于1992年发布的平装版,并在2002年发布了一个翻译,反映了这种开创性工作的显着寿命和影响,并在该地区进行了经典。1993年,她出版了儿童性虐待的成人幸存者:一个研讨会模型,这是在1999年(2002年的平装书)通过回忆虐待:治疗原则和准则,由W.W. Norton再次出版。In addition, she has published two special issues of journals (The Counseling Psychologist: Victimization and Its Aftermath with James O’Neil in 1988 and The Journal of Traumatic Stress, special section on complex trauma, with Bessell van der Kolk in 2005) and numerous book chapters and articles on trauma, traumatic memory, sexual abuse, incest, and recovery with multiple publications every year since she received her doctorate. She has an extensive history of service on editorial boards and as an ad hoc reviewer as well.
Courtois对教育和培训的承诺体现在她对学术文学的贡献和她的教师任命上,包括在史密斯学院社会工作学院、哈佛医学院和乔治敦大学的职位。最近,她与马里兰心理协会合作,建立了一个创伤与分离的博士后研究所。她每年在国内和国际上发表许多演讲和研讨会。
Constois通过专业组织志愿服务对专业的贡献并不值得注意。She has held numerous appointed and elected positions with the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD), the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), and the Society for Counseling Psychology (Division 17) of the American Psychological Association (APA)以及与APA,其他专业协会和众多社区组织的其他指定职位。
Constois的承诺,奉献精神和对该领域的贡献已得到多次认可。她是APA部门第17个(咨询心理学协会),29(心理治疗),35(女性心理学)和42名(心理学家在独立实践中)和ISSD。她收到的奖项一直很重要。1996年,APA向她颁发了一个首屈一指的奖项,颁发尊敬的专业贡献奖,以申请心理学作为专业实践。她收到了John Black奖(1995年)以及咨询心理学协会的“年度妇女”妇女奖“妇女的进展部分。The ISTSS awarded her the Sarah Haley Award for Clinical Excellence in 2003, and the ISSD awarded her the Cornelia Wilbur Award in 2001. She was elected a Distinguished Practitioner in Psychology of the Psychology Academy of the National Academies of Practice in 1998.
引用:
- Courtois, c.a.(1988)。愈合乱伦伤口:治疗中的成年幸存者。纽约:诺顿。
- COURTOIS,C. A.(1993)。儿童性虐待的成人幸存者:研讨会模型。密尔沃基,WI:国际家庭。
- COURTOIS,C. A.(1999)。性虐待的回忆:治疗原则和指导方针。纽约:诺顿。
- Courtois,C. A.,&O'Neil,J.(EDS)。(1988)。受害者及其后果[特刊]。咨询心理学家16(4)。
- Courtois,C. A.,&Van der Kolk,B. A.(EDS。)。(2005)。复杂创伤的特殊部分。创伤应激,18(5)。