New TSM Book is published!!!!! Action Against Trauma: A Trainer's Manual

[Dr Kate Hudgins]

A long waited book has just been published.  "Action Against Trauma:   
A Trainer's Manual"  (Hudgins, Culbertson, & Hug, 2009) can now be  
purchased on an internet publisher LULU.com     Go directly to the  
site and type in the name of the book and pay them directly with a  
credit card.

This 100 page book describes a grant funded program by the Virginia  
Foundation for the Humanities, Center on Violence and Community at  
the University of Virginia.  Dr Kate Hudgins and Dr Roberta  
Culbertson received the grant following 9/11 to design, develop,  
demonstrate, and evaluate a one week training program for community  
workers.  They were joined by TSM Team Members Dr Jeanne Burger, Mimi  
Cox, and Catherine Wilson as well as UVA Humanities Scholars in  
literature, history and religion to present a program that helped  
members debrief from the 9/11 experience.  Edward Hug, MSW wrote the  
introductory chapter on the neurobiology of violence and PTSD. The  
local Charlottesville Playback Troupe that included Larry Goldstein,  
and Mecca Burns started the program on the first night.

Guided by the clinical system of the Therapeutic Spiral Model and  
informed by a variety of humanities texts and exercises, the combined  
team of clinicians and humanities scholars produced a program to help  
survivors of violence through historical contextualizing, theatre,  
poetry, music, and art, while also teaching about capacity building  
and conflict resolution.  Action Against Trauma seeks to help  
clinicians that their learning out of the therapy room---and to help  
scholars leave the classroom---in order to apply their learning to  
community meetings, local organizations, and citizens groups trying  
to work in post-trauma environments.

Kate Hudgins, Ph.D., TEP

Clinical Psychologist
Director of Training
Therapeutic Spiral International, LLC
ww.therapeuticspiral.org
drkatetsi at mac.com



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