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Use of OH-Cards in the context of Family Constellations

In this edition, we chose to give special emphasis to the use of cards in the context of Family Constellations. The decision stems from our intention to broaden the perspective on tools that favor symbolic expression and access to the subconscious. The OH Cards, for example, originally created as a therapeutic and creative resource, prove to be particularly powerful when integrated into constellations. They offer images and words that function as internal mirrors, allowing participants to recognize hidden feelings, memories, and family dynamics in a clearer and more intuitive way. By bringing this theme to the center of the magazine, we seek to appreciate practices that enrich the work of constellation facilitators and broaden the experience of those being constellated. More than an auxiliary resource, the OH Cards become an invitation to creativity, deep listening, and dialogue between reason and imagination…

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Health and Healing Professional Publications Therapy and Counselling

Psychological group approach for organ transplant recipients – a pilot project

Article in “Revue médical suisse”: Psychological distress is common in patients after solid organ transplantation and often motivates psychological and psychiatric consultations. Due to its clinical and economic potential, the CHUV has been offering a group therapy for solid organ transplant recipients since 2022.
Patients use the sessions to talk about their feelings of stigmatization or fear of contamination, but also about their need for a balance between overstepping some limits and ­ rigorous discipline regarding medication intake and precautions to be taken. They talk about issues they usually do not discuss with the various health professionals who follow them. The group therapy thus contributes to their empowerment and helps them to take responsibility in their life and medical follow‑­up.

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Academia Child and Youth Therapy Professional Publications Trauma Therapy

Pictorial representations as symbolic mediators 

This article describes a modified form of the IPPI interview for children based on the use of pictorial representations, i.e., the Metaphoric and Associative Cards, “OH-Cards”. A clinical vignette illustrates the different steps of this intervention such as those provided to sibling 6-year-old twins in the context of a post-immediate CUMP intervention after a drowning.
Results. – Adding the pictorial cards to IPPI interview techniques facilitated the children’s verbaliza- tion, the narrative reports of the traumatic experience with the professional, and globally enhanced the symbolization process.
Discussion. – This developmental-sensitive adaptation of the commonly used debriefing approach illus- trates the positive synergy between the professional cultures of the clinicians from the CUMP and the child psychiatrists.
Conclusion. – Children-specific adaptations of the IPPI based on symbolic mediators, such as pictorial cards, should be considered as a reference tool at this age in the training of CUMP professionals.

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Academia Health and Healing Professional Publications Therapy and Counselling Trauma Therapy

Associative cards for psychotherapeutic PTSD treatment

Physiological indicators of emotional arousal related to ANS activity in response to associative cards for psychotherapeutic PTSD treatment By Sivan Raz and Mooli Lahad SEE FAR CBT is an integrative treatment protocol for PTSD and anxiety disorders which combines CBT, body-mind (somatic experience) and imagery-based (fantastic reality; FR) methods. FR is introduced using associative therapeutic […]

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