This groundbreaking book presents a new model for working with survivors of abuse and other trauma.  The Healing Tasks Model, based on developmental stages of healing with specific tasks for each stage, offers the clinician new support for threading through the sometimes overwhelming complexities of the survivor''s experience.  At the same time, Kepner''s model helps to avoid some of the common pitfalls and risks of work in this most challenging of clinical areas, such as pushing clients to express and remember before they have developed the capacity to manage such intensity, or encouraging confrontation and interpersonal interactions that the survivor doesn''t yet have the developmental underpinnings to support.Using the Healing Tasks Model the clinician will find techniques for helping clients develop emotional and systemic supports, manage feelings, and set appropriate boundaries.  Readers will also find a guide to dealing with the difficult and troubling issues of memory: how to ap