Robert Olcott posted:I attended a number of [trauma-informed, 'Risking Connection', 'Intentional Peer Support'] trainings. I found the work of Peer Support facilitator Shery Mead (and her current organization: "Mental Health Peers") to be quite comprehensive, and reviewed favorably by NH-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, among other organizations.
I also had attended CISD training with First Responders - in the late 1980's, but I think the recent development of "Police Intentional Peer Support", now in use in Boston, Cambridge, and North Shore municipalities of Massachusetts-in conjunction with the [now international] On-Site Academy of Gardner, Massachusetts, and initiatives such as Leckey Harrison described, to be noteworthy, as I hadn't heard of any adverse outcomes. But I hadn't heard of any 'adverse outcomes' from "Athenian Theater", either.
At a PTSD continuing education conference at the Veterans Administration, some years ago, it was noted that a British journal reported questions about the efficacy of CISD with automobile accident survivors in Britain.
I would hope that the ISTSS (International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies), might have an "Evidence Base", as well as EMDRIA-an international group of EMDR Clinicians, who now have the "O'Shea/Paulsen [EMDR] protocols". The "EENet" (Evidence Exchange Network of Ontario province in Canada) may also have data.
I regret that I had once encountered "an adverse bias" to Bessel van der Kolk's work, at our National Center for PTSD Library, even though it was while I was there perusing his book: "The Body Keeps the Score:...". I'm not sure that all staff there concurred with the one person who said to me: "We don't like him!" [pointing to van der Kolk's name on the book cover].
I hope this is helpful, at this 'late date'.
In a recent New Yorker article, van der Kolk was at it again, stating that Exposure Therapy was creating dissociation rather than healing, and the CBT was ineffective. I think he's been clear about his profession and trauma, Gaboe Maté as well, and van der Kolk's book it titled very similarly to Babette Rothschild's, and they both mention where the issue really is: the body. There is also this article (http://www.madinamerica.com/20...y-incremental-steps/), and again, there is a gross neglect to consider the fact that what's staring us in the face doesn't need rocket science. Again, where Maté agrees: we've got all the research, it all comes back to stress and trauma (he would say childhood), and the problem is in the body. Yet we want to keep talking to the problem.