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...
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
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...