Multiplex CBT for Traumatized Multicultural Populations

Devon E. Hinton, M.D, Ph.D., is a psychiatrist and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, and at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

• Introduction; Session 1: Education about Trauma-Related Disorder and Introduction of Emotion Regulation Techniques; Session 2: Applied Stretching and the Toe-to-Head Muscle Relaxation with Visualization; Session 3: Review of the Toe-to-Head Muscle Relaxation with Visualization and the Introduction of the Anxiety Protocol; Session 4: Education about Trauma and Introduction of the Trauma-Recall Protocol; Session 5: Education about Trauma-Related Disorder, Modification of Catastrophic Cognitions, and Teaching Emotional Distancing; Session 6: Interoceptive Exposure with Re-association I: Head Rotation; Session 7: Interoceptive Exposure with Re-association II: Hyperventilation; Session 8: Education about Breathing and Its Use for Relaxation; Session 9: Sleep Disturbance; Session 10: Worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Session 11: Anger and Anger Protocol; Session 12: Somatic Complaints I and Review; Session 13: Somatic Complaints II and Review; Session 14: Cultural Syndromes and Final Review; Appendix A: Stretching Handout; Appendix B: Toe-to-Head Relaxation with Visualization; Appendix C: Anxiety Protocol; Appendix D: Trauma-Recall Protocol; Appendix E: Anger Protocol; Appendix F: Worry Questionnaire; Appendix G: 'Thinking a Lot' Questionnaire; Index.

'Dr. Devon Hinton's new book Multiplex CBT for Traumatized Multicultural Populations: Treating PTSD and Related Disorders is an innovative, timely and invaluable contribution to the clinical literature. In this book, mental health problems are thoroughly understood by not only bridging mind and body issues but by also embedding patients into their social and cultural contexts. The interventions described benefit from patients' cultural backgrounds which makes clinical interventions more applicable to ethnic minorities and refugee communities. Furthermore, Multiplex CBT describes a systematic set of evidence-based affect regulation strategies, including somatic affect regulation interventions that are illustrated in simple and concrete terms. The broadness and depth of Dr Hinton's multiplex conceptual model is only matched by the richness and clarity of its therapeutic tools.' Martin J. La Roche, Ph.D., Director of Mental Health Training, Boston Children's Hospital at Martha Eliot; Associate Professor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School