Assessment--TSM Trauma Survivors Intrapsychic Role Atom

[Dr Kate Hudgins]

Dear Grouptalk

I have followed some of the dialogue on assessment that has happened.  
As a clinical psychologist trained in the full battery of  
psychometric testing, I have found it useful to the client and also  
as a shorthand communication with professional colleagues along the  
way.  But I rarely if ever use that kind of assessment any more.

In psychodrama, I have found the social atom a useful tool that is  
very useful to client and therapist alot.  When I was training at St  
Elizabeths in the early 80's. we learned to use it both as a pen and  
paper and an enactment tool.  I used it in my first job as a  
substance abuse counselor as an intake tool to look at the social  
relationship the alcoholics and addicts had as they started  
outpatient treatment.  And to track their treatment progress.  those  
who made the needed changes from using friends to friends in AA and  
other recovery relationships were the ones who got and stayed sober.   
It was a very powerful self assessment tool.

As we created TSM, we took the template of the social atom and  
developed an internal role assessment to look at healthy roles that  
we call the Prescriptive roles and believe they also are an  
operational definition of the spontaneous learning state (Yorke  
1997).  Then we also assess the Trauma roles of victim, perpetrator  
and abandoning authority that are internalized from all traumatic  
experiences.  This is the pre-assessment phase.  In early treatment  
in individual or group therapy with TSM, we teach people about the  
transformative roles and as they go along we add this to the  
assessment tool.  It is a great repeated measures tool.

I just lead a training group this past weekend on the Trauma  
Survivors Intrapsychic Role Atom(TSIRA) and will be doing another one  
in Charlottesville, VA February 20-21, March 20-21 in Ottawa Canada,  
and May 15 and 16th in San Francisco and June 29th in England.  Both  
our pre-conference presentation at ASGPP and our BPA presentation  
will show a Prescriptive Role TSM drama.  so there are many chances  
to learn about the TSIRA in the first half of 2010.

Please email me at DrKateTSI at mac.com to register for the February  
20-21st workshop in Charlottesville, VA.

Thanks Kate

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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