Trauma Services

Men's Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model

The Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (TREM) is a clinically tested and manualized group intervention. Designed to help members develop and strengthen the skills necessary to cope effectively with the impact of traumatic experiences, it draws primarily on psychoeducational and cognitive-behavioral techniques in an actively supportive group context. Originally developed at Community Connections by and for women (Trauma Recovery and Empowerment: A Clinician's Guide for Working with Women in Groups, The Free Press, 1998), TREM has now been tailored to the specific concerns of male trauma survivors.

The men's 24-session group (M-TREM) is structured in three sections. Part I addresses the emotional readiness of male trauma survivors. Group members develop a shared emotional and relational vocabulary via sessions that focus on both central emotions (anger, fear, hope, shame) and relationship characteristics (friendship, intimacy, trust, loss). Part I helps men to place their personal experiences in a larger context by exploring the cultural understanding of “what is means to be a man.” In Part II, attention focuses more directly on trauma and its connections to emotional, addictive, and relationship difficulties. Part III adopts a more explicitly skill-building emphasis with, among others, sessions on communication, problem-solving, and self-soothing.

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