Interesting Research:
How Trauma Gets Stuck in the Body: A video with Peter Levine explaining how trauma gets stuck in the body
The Future of Healing: Shifting from Trauma Informed Care to Healing Center Engagement: A healing centered approach is holistic involving culture, spirituality, civic action and collective healing.
The Power Threat Meaning Framework: Towards the identification of patterns in emotional distress, unusual experiences and troubled or troubling behavior, as an alternative to functional psychiatric diagnosis. A research article by the British Psychological Society
Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia: This report describes a psychological approach to experiences that are commonly thought of as psychosis, or sometimes schizophrenia. It complements parallel reports on the experiences commonly thought of as bipolar disorder and depression.
Resources:
NBC Story on Hearing Voices: Hearing Voices Others Can’t: How A Growing Movement Fights Mental Health
Affects of Childhood Trauma TEDTalk
To schedule an appointment or to learn more about my services, please email allison@blossomingheartcounseling.com or 503-880-7190