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Trauma Model Therapy: A Treatment Approach for Trauma Dissociation and Complex Comorbidity

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Podcast: Growing Beautifully – Living Greater than our Trauma

Kathy Andersen speaks with Naomi Halpern

Mental Health in the times of the pandemic by Dr Paul Valent

Dr Paul Valent

Understanding the Victim – Rescuer – Persecutor Triangle

Naomi Halpern

Mindfulness for Daily Living: Pros and Cons

Naomi Halpern

Supporting someone having an Anxiety – Panic Attack or Flashback

Naomi Halpern

Tips for Mitigating Vicarious Trauma and Enhancing Resilience

Naomi Halpern

Dialoguing with Parts of Self Worksheet

Naomi Halpern & Susan Henry

Representations of maladaptive daydreaming and the self: A qualitative<br>analysis of drawings

Somer, E., Somer, L., Halpern, N.

Maladaptive Daydreaming: Proposed Diagnostic Criteria and Their<br>Assessment With a Structured Clinical Interview

Somer, E., Soffer-Dudek, N., Ross, C.A., Halpern, N.

Suggestions for Providing Nonclinical Peer Support and Debriefing to Frontline Healthcare Providers and Other Personnel Working with COVID-19 Patients

Briere, J. (April 2020

The Dynamics of Fear at the Time of COVID-19: A Contextual Behavioral Science Perspective

Giovambattista Presti, Louise McHugh, Andrew Gloster, Maria Karekla, Steven C. Hayes

Lockdown and isolation: psychological aspects of COVID-19 pandemic in the general population

Federico Mucci, Nicola Mucci, Francesca Diolaiuti

Stress and Coping in the Time of COVID-19: Pathways to Resilience and Recovery

Craig Polizzi, Steven Jay Lynn, Andrew Perry

The self and its world: a neuro-ecological and temporo-spatial account of existential fear

Andrea Scalabrini, Clara Mucci, Lorenzo Lucherini Angeletti, Georg Northof

The four horsemen of fear: An integrated model of understanding fear experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic

Adriano Schimmenti, Joël Billieux and Vladan Starcevic

Recommended Reading

Anderson, F.G., (2021) Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems Therapy, PESI

Anderson, F.G., Schwartz, R., Sweezy, M., (2017), Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Substance Abuse, PESI

Briere, J. (2019) Treating Risky and Compulsive Behavior in Trauma SurvivorsGuilford Press

Courtois, C. (2010). Healing the Incest Wound: Adult Survivors in Therapy, 2nd EditionWW Norton & Company.

Fisher, J. (2009). Psychoeducational Aids for Working with Psychological Trauma. 8th Edition. www.janinafisher.com

Fisher, J. (2017) Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-AlienationRoutledge

Ferentz, L. (2015) Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide (2nd Edition), Routledge

Ross, C. & Halpern, N. (2009) Trauma Model Therapy: A Treatment Approach For Trauma, Dissociation And Complex Comorbidity, Manitou Communications Inc.

Schwartz, R.C. Sweezy, M. (2020) Internal Family Systems Therapy (2nd Edition), The Guilford Press

Van der Kolk, B. (2014) The Body Keeps The Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of TraumaAllen Lane

Client Workbooks:

Boon, S., Steele, K., Van der Hart, O. (2011) Coping With Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills training for patients and therapists, W.W. Norton

Fisher, J. (2021) Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: A workbook for survivors and therapists, PESI

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