I am delighted to announce that Kate and I have finally completed the revisions to the TSM Certification Standards and Procedures. Most of the changes are more structural than actual added requirements, however there are a few additions. Now that...
Resources
The Trauma Therapist Podcast
Dr. Kate Hudgins shares about how "Courage Is The Fear That Has Said Its Prayers", the start of TSM and teaches some Master Classes on Guy McPherson’s great program "The Trauma Therapist". https://lnkd.in/eiawMrE
Experiential Addiction Treatment: Creating Positive Connection through Sociometry and Therapeutic Spiral Model Safety Structures
Journal of Addiction and Addictive Disorders Scott Giacomuccia*; Sharon Gerab; Darrell Briggsc; & Kim Bassd abcdMirmont Treatment Center, Lima, PA, USA *Contact Scott Giacomucci at Scott@SGiacomucci.com for any correspondence related to this...
Building Resilience in Youth with Therapeutic Spiral Model™ (TSM) Psychodrama
By Mario Cossa, RDT/MT, TEP Norman Garmezy, Ph.D., a Developmental Psychologist from the University of Minnesota, is generally credited with the seminal research on resilience and attempts to define what are now called protective factors—those...
Circle of Values
By Mario Cossa, RDT/MT, TEP This article provides an overview of the first two years of a project using action methods in an educational setting in Indonesia. It was conducted at Campuhan College, in the village of Ubud on the Island of Bali....
Traveling as Spontaneity Training: If you want to become a Psychodramatist, Travel the world!
By Scott Giacomucci, MSS, LSW, CTTS, CET III Abstract The experience of traveling has the power to provide us with rich experiential learning experiences and a deeper understanding of psychodrama theory. I offer this article as an personal...
The Sociodrama of Life or Death: Young Adults and Addiction Treatment
By Scott Giacomucci, MSS, LSW, CTTS, CET III The continued opiate epidemic has severely impacted young people as drug overdoses have reached unprecedented levels. Young people, more than ever, have been seeking addiction treatment with...
Being in two places at once: renegotiating traumatic experience through the surplus reality of psychodrama
By Scott Giacomucci & Amy Stone Abstract This article continues the dialogue started by Skolnik 2018 about the synergistic union of social work and psychodrama group approaches. The theoretical and clinical alignment of psychodrama and...
Experiential Addiction Treatment: Creating Positive Connection through Sociometry and Therapeutic Spiral Model Safety Structures
By Scott Giacomucci, MSS, LCSW, CTTS, CET III, TSI AL Many argue that addiction is preceded by a sense of psychosocial dislocation, experiences of relational trauma, attachment ruptures, or neglect. The lived experience of drug addiction is...
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The Sage Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy (4th edition)
At over 600 pages and with more than 100 contributions, this Fourth Edition brings together the essentials of counselling and psychotherapy theory, research, skills and practice. Including new content on assessment, theory, applications and...
TSM Six Safety Action Structures American Society for Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy
The TSM Six Safety Action Structures have been developed and used to concretize spontaneity and provide containment and group cohesion for all Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM) groups for several decades now (Hudgins & Toscani, 2013). The...




