Overview

TRAUMA NARRATIVE TREATMENT is an evidence-based group narrative therapy approach using a wide range of elements from trauma research, including linguistic representation, externalization, reauthoring, body work, mindfulness, relaxation techniques, art, music, and movement toward the integration of traumatic memories. The six-session model addresses the variety of issues resulting from trauma, such as the loss of a sense of self, fragmentation of memories, feelings of shame and self-blame, rage, feelings of powerlessness, loss of agency, dissociation, grief, loss, compromised social functioning, and spiritual disengagement. The model has been used world-wide, including in Haiti, Rwanda, New Zealand, the United States, the Middle East, Malaysia, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, and more.

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The worst thing that happens to us is never the last thing that happens to us. David and Donna Lane become the voice of creative regeneration and, through the power of story, they rekindle the embers of new life amongst people who become hopeless bewildered by deep, inexplicable loss and by tragedies that have left them feeling abandoned and alone. In the final analysis, every person's life turns out to be a story. The telling and retelling, the hearing and rehearing of story awakens within us that inner imagination that ignites the flames of hope where only sadness and disappointment have brought us down. Through story, they teach us that every ending is the embryo of new beginnings, if only we have the courage to mount the wings of angels and live forward toward the light. A practical manual for brief intervention: This manual provides counselors and other clinicians with practical steps on how to use narrative therapy with groups. User friendly and culturally relevant. Highly recommend!

The worst thing that happens to us is never the last thing that happens to us. David and Donna Lane become the voice of creative regeneration and, through the power of story, they rekindle the embers of new life amongst people who become hopeless bewildered by deep, inexplicable loss and by tragedies that have left them feeling abandoned and alone. In the final analysis, every person's life turns out to be a story. The telling and retelling, the hearing and rehearing of story awakens within us that inner imagination that ignites the flames of hope where only sadness and disappointment have brought us down. Through story, they teach us that every ending is the embryo of new beginnings, if only we have the courage to mount the wings of angels and live forward toward the light. A practical manual for brief intervention: This manual provides counselors and other clinicians with practical steps on how to use narrative therapy with groups. User friendly and culturally relevant. Highly recommend!

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W. David Lane, Ph.D., is professor of counseling at Mercer University, and is the founding faculty member of the counseling program at Mercer University in Atlanta, GA. He has more than forty years experience as a counselor, counselor educator, and supervisor. David is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Nationally Board Certified Counselor, a Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor, and a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapists. Dr. Donna E. Lane is an award-winning author, professor of Counseling at Mercer University, and a Christian Counselor in private practice since 1993. Along with her husband, Dr. David Lane, she developed a program for individuals suffering through trauma, initially used in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. She and David also brought the program to Newtown, CT, following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, leading training workshops for pastors and community workers to learn how to lead the program in their community. From those experiences, the Lanes co-wrote Trauma Narrative Treatment, a training program for individuals working with trauma victims, which has been used nationally and internationally, and Gold Stone, the children's book for all ages which accompanies Trauma Narrative Treatment.

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