ECTM–Emotional Cognitive Trauma Model
Our desire is to provide the tools for dedicated parents and professionals to facilitate the healing of traumatized children in a family setting.
The Emotional Cognitive Trauma Model (ECTM), developed by Faye Hall and Jeff Merkert, utilizes a targeted set of evidence based psychological practices to empower caregivers and professionals to see the children and their behaviors through the Trauma Lens and begins the healing paradigm shift. The psycho-education interweaves neurology, emotional co-regulation, child development, and relationship building skills, which decreases the reliance on behavioral and medical intervention. This model transfers a set of skills to family units that in turns transforms them into emotional processing systems for both the children’s historic and on-going traumatic experiences. These emotional processing family systems are healing in themselves and additionally form the safe and secure foundations needed in more traditional recovery modalities.
To develop this model, Jeff and Faye combined their academics, experiences and training in attachment and trauma. They incorporate Circle of Security, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Emotion Focused Therapy, and Gottman’s marriage model, etc in both their treatment and psycho-educational writings.
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