American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy approved training programs:  Training program resource. (n.d.). Retrieved August 25, 2016, from
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Altman, K. P. (2000). Psychodramatic treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder. In P. F Kellerman, & M.K. Hudgins (Eds.), Psychodrama with trauma survivors: Acting out your pain. (pp. 176-186). Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley
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Badenoch, B. (2008).  Being a brain-wise therapist: A practical guide to interpersonal neurobiology.  New York, NY:  W.W. Norton and Company. https://www.amazon.com/Being-Brain-Wise-Therapist-Interpersonal-Neurobiology/dp/0393705544

Calhoun, L.G. & Tedeschi, R.G. (2014). The Handbook of Post-Traumatic Growth: Research and Practice. New York, NY: Psychology Press.
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Theory, Research and Practice of TSM

Alers V.M. 2008 “The 20th Vona du Toit Memorial lecture 2007. Proposing the social atom of occupational therapy:Dealing with trauma as part of an integrated inclusive intervention.” South African Journal of Occupational Therapy, 38, 3, (3 – 10).
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Alers, V.M. (2013). The therapeutic spiral model perspective from South Africa—The rainbow nation. In K. Hudgins & F. Toscani (Eds.), Healing world trauma with the therapeutic spiral model.[1]  London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
https://www.amazon.com/Healing-World-Trauma-Therapeutic-Spiral/dp/1849059233

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If you would like to take an “experiential journey” into the development of TSM, please read through this pathway of readings and stories to discover more about the inner workings.  Enjoy!

By Kate Hudgins, Ph.D., TEP

Spirals are symbols of healing in all indigenous cultures from the beginning of time. 

They can be found on cave paintings in France and as petroglyphs, the carvings on rocks, in Australia. They are everywhere in nature. Quantum physics now teaches that there are invisible spirals of energy around us at any moment in time.

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By Kate Hudgins, Ph.D., TEP

Exactly what is psychodrama?

The easy answer is that psychodrama is a method to experience your internal reality, what it calls “surplus reality,” through the sharing of your stories, experiences, hopes and visions in action.

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