This book presents trauma-informed principles for ethical, safe, and
effective group work, psychodrama, and leadership.
Content will include practical guidelines, detailed instructions, and
diverse examples for facilitating both trauma-informed and
trauma-focused groups in treatment, community, and organizational
leadership. Chapters focus on various topics including safety,
empowerment, social justice, vicarious trauma, and leadership.
Organizational leadership is approached through the lens of SAMHSA's
guidance and the framework of group work leadership. The book includes
significant focus on sociometry and psychodrama as strengths-based and
experiential group approaches. Psychodrama's philosophies, theories, and
interventions will be articulated through a trauma-informed lens
offering psychodramatists, group workers, and organizational leaders new
conceptual frameworks and action-based processes. Chapters contain a
blend of theory, research, practical guidance, and examples from the
author's experience.
This book will appeal to group workers, therapists, psychodramatists,
creative arts therapists, organizational leaders, trainers,
facilitators, supervisors, community organizers, and graduate students.
This book offers group facilitators the insight and tools to lead
engaging and meaningful groups. The potential for retraumatizing
participants is addressed while promoting trauma-informed practice as an
ethical imperative.
