Trauma Services

Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model

Millions of women seek help every year for troubling depression or anxiety, for puzzling physical symptoms like headaches, muscle aches, and stomach cramps, for addictions to drugs, alcohol, or food and for problems with relationships. What their therapists or physicians are beginning to discover is that trauma, whether past or ongoing, is the cause of many of these problems.

For almost five years, 27 clinicians and more than 500 participants developed and refined the Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (TREM), a group approach to healing from the effects of trauma. TREM combines the best elements of social skills training, psychoeducational and psychodynamic techniques, and emphasizes peer support, which have proven to be highly effective approaches with survivors. The Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model is a step-by-step leaders guide of 33 group sessions. Each topic includes a rationale and goals for the session, specific discussion questions, a sampling of typical responses, and experiential exercises.

Maxine Harris and the Community Connections Trauma Work Group have put together a manual on trauma recovery and empowerment. Click here for a description and ordering info.

Maxine Harris and Mary Ellen Copeland adapted the TREM group intervention into a self-help workbook format, entitled Healing the Trauma of Abuse. Click here for a description and ordering information.

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