Contributed by Laurie Leitch
It Takes a Community
Therapy-As-Usual Can't Serve the Needs of Our Returning TroopsOur standard psychotherapeutic paradigm is unequal to the mammoth challenge of serving the troops who've served in Iraq and Afghanistan. What's needed is a... Read more
The Language of the Nervous System
The 5 TRM Self-Stabilization SkillsThe Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) is based on teaching people a basic set of self-stabilization skills that help reregulate the nervous system in the wake of... Read more
Hope in the Ruins
Helping the Survivors of the Haitian EarthquakeA disaster-tested therapist, who's worked with the survivors of the Thai tsunami, the Sichuan earthquake, and the Rwanda genocide, offers an on-the-scene... Read more
Journey to Rwanda
A therapist confronts the unthinkableSome years ago, Rwanda was the hellish scene of one of the most ferocious genocides in history. A therapist who traveled there reports on what it's like to... Read more
Laurie Leitch
Laurie Leitch, PhD, is cofound and codirector of development and evaluation for the Resource Institute, which offers training in the brief stabilization model Trauma Trauma Resiliency Model First Aide. She’s the director of research for The Foundation for Human Enrichment.