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СКАЧАТЬ 6, Wen Chun Cho, Ph.D., a psychologist from Taiwan, introduces you to the Action Healing Team. Having gone through her own TSM training to become a Team Leader, Dr. Cho writes clearly on a small research project exploring the training process of students in TSM—the pros and cons. As Wen Chun probes the research, she brings to light many nuances of roles specific to TSM and the Team, for example, Containing Double (CD), Trained Auxiliary Ego (TAE), and especially the role of Assistant Leader (AL). She makes clear recommendations to help to improve the training, especially in cross-cultural situations, such as practica in individual, couples, family, and organization. Today, many of these suggestions are implemented into our International Certification Training Program to Treat Trauma using the Therapeutic Spiral Model.

      Chapter 7, the final chapter in Part 2, is written by Charmaine McVea, a psychologist, psychodramatist, and TSM trainer from Australia. This chapter is part of a larger research study she completed for her Ph.D. at University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Here, Charmaine describes significant moments of clinical change as she implements her own mixture of TSM therapy and classical psychodrama. Focusing on a unique aspect of psychodrama—the use of trained and spontaneous auxiliaries as part of the healing process—she defines the therapeutic alliance between protagonist and auxiliaries. That Charmaine is a gifted clinician and director is seen in the heart-touching stories of healing that she shares about workshop participants.

      Part 3, the original clinical applications of the Therapeutic Spiral Model, spotlights work by authors who are from the original TSM training group. Their stories show clearly how they’ve incorporated the model into their work from the beginning and expanded it in a variety of settings with eating disorders, addictions, and in individual therapy.

      In Chapter 8, Colleen Baratka, M.A., RDT, TEP, shares her stories of bringing TSM to treat eating disorders at the Renfrew Center in Philadelphia, PA. While Director of Training there, she developed an inpatient trauma track program based on TSM to provide relief for men and women suffering from eating disorders. Today, she conducts client and training workshops in the Philadelphia area using TSM. Colleen’s chapter teaches the power of the Body Double (BD), a TSM intervention for people with distorted body images and who often have flashbacks from abuse. The power of her work with clients is palpable, as is her love of walking the healing path with them, and in this chapter we are privy to her moving experiences.

      In Chapter 9, Mary Anne (Mimi) Hughes Cox, LSCW, TEP, one of the first TSM team members and trainers, describes the many ways she uses TSM in the treatment of addiction work with her clients. She clearly explains the similarities between the principles of TSM and the 12-step recovery programs, making this a good match for people seeking change from their addictive behaviors. Mimi presents a powerful integration of a well-known relapse prevention tool with the Containing Double that increases alcoholics’ chances of success in early recovery.

      In Chapter 10, Karen Drucker, Psy.D., TEP, a psychologist, psychodrama trainer, and TSM trainer in private practice, teaches us about the use of TSM in individual therapy. As with most of the authors, she relates the success and usefulness of both the Containing Double and the Restorative Roles of Strengths, bringing the “compassionate witness” to her work. Karen presents a moving example of TSM in individual therapy that can benefit all practitioners of experiential methods to treat trauma.

      Part 4 focuses on the new clinical applications of the Therapeutic Spiral Model. In this section, you hear from authors who have expanded the use of TSM to combine other modalities and theories through their own practice in clinical settings, including group and family therapy, and weekend workshops. Without exception, they are highly specialized clinicians with bright minds, a love of the model, and dedication to help to heal more people around the world. Examples are given from Taiwan, England, and South Africa. These chapters reach deeply into the human condition and touch the hearts of all who are attuned to the pain of suffering and the joy of true healing.

      In Chapter 11, Dr. Nien-Hwa Lai, Ph.D., TEP, presents information about an ongoing research project she conducts in Taiwan with women and children who suffer from domestic violence. She is the first Certified Therapeutic Spiral Model Trainer in Asia and works with a ten-person Action Healing Team that developed a year-long therapeutic program combining 12-week groups and several weekend workshops. Nien-Hwa’s chapter weaves the use of art therapy and action structures guided by TSM principles to bring mothers and children together during a two-day workshop. Included in the chapter are movingly beautiful pictures of art projects that the group produced to provide the necessary containment and structure. Her descriptions flow like an Asian river, broad and winding, and open the heart to believe in the process of healing after violence. We are thankful to one of her client families for our cover illustration.

      The author of Chapter 12, Chip Chimera, MSC, Dip PP, Dip AMS, CQSW, Dip ASS, is a trained Therapeutic Spiral Model Team Leader in London. As Director of the Institute of Family Therapy, London, she has found many instances where TSM guides her work. In this chapter she clearly shows us the weavings of three modalities—systemic family therapy, attachment theory, and TSM—that help to heal the trauma of a birth family whose children have been placed in foster care by the Court. Chip describes how this integration gave the family tools to understand complex feelings in simple ways and changed imbedded, long-standing, and dysfunctional patterns of interaction—a moving story.

      In Chapter 13, Vivyan Alers, M.Sc. Occupational Therapy, writes a vivid account of her work in Ivory Park, South Africa, describing the nuances of social, cultural, and political traumas of life there. From the first time a Therapeutic Spiral Action Healing Team went to South Africa in 1998, tribal leaders embraced the teachings of TSM to heal their families and communities. They danced and sang, enlivening the Circle of Safety with joy and color. In this chapter, Vivyan describes the power of TSM as it continues today in her evolution of the model and in her development of a university-based course so that it can become financially accessible to more people.

      Part 5 presents three chapters that demonstrate effective expansion of the Therapeutic Spiral Model with men in Canada, England, and the United States. You see the applications to men as survivors of sexual abuse, as well as to men who are sex offenders, and men who batter, showing that TSM can be used in the full spectrum of recovery from violence.

      Chapter 14 is written by a group of practitioners in Ottawa, Canada, who have conducted TSM workshops and groups for over ten years. Roy Salole, MBBS, DMJ (Clin.), CTS (ITAA) and Monica Forst, M.Ed., ICADC have co-created a TSM workshop on attachment and trauma. In addition to private practices, they work at the Men’s Project, the only non-profit organization devoted to the treatment of male sexual abuse survivors in Canada, which has weekly TSM groups for their male clients.

      Chapter 15 written by Clark Baim, Dip PP, a Senior Trainer in Psychodrama in England, presents a unique integration of TSM and cognitive behavioral therapy to help male sex offenders who are in prison. The power of this chapter is the treatment that integrates the prisoners’ own childhood abuse with their subsequent offending behaviors, producing a sense of remorse and responsibility rarely seen among offenders. Secondarily, it also includes impressive research results.

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