Salvador Minuchin, the founder of Structural Therapy, first used this method on delinquents, mostly African Americans and Puerto Ricans. The focus of family members are revised to the structure of each individual (Griffin, pg. 10). The woman of color benefit from this structure not only to help with identity crises but to show the family themselves as a structure on how to deal intense issues such as the effects of self-harm. Structural therapy looks at both the causes and effects on how one self is being affected with their life at home. Identity crises can come from multiple types of stress. These woman experience more stress when viewed as to be the poor woman, and economically stressed (Norman, 2014). Their role of identity is compromised …show more content…
Not only is focusing on the client and structure important but when examining the sole root of the trauma or causes, EMDR can help the client process the information quicker to a source of relief. By following light with your eyes, the therapist finger, you are brought to focus on the root cause of the trigger points. African American woman not only focus on the sole cause of color differences around their surroundings, the pressure of being a woman, having any identity crisis can cause trauma and self-harm destruction as an outlet. EMDR has nine stages of treatment. The nine treatments goes as follows;
“(1) establishing the psychotherapy, (2) preliminary interventions, (3) history gathering and mapping, (4) metabolism of the trauma, (5) moving toward integration/resolution, (6) integration resolution, (7) learning new coping skills, (8) solidification of gains and working through, and (9) follow-up.(Twombly,2008)” An African Woman who was a self-harm used EMDR, after the first session she only issued in the cutting once, then after three more sessions she had refrained from cutting since the trigger point was found in EMDR