Risking Connection: A Training Curriculum for Working With Survivors of Childhood Abuse

By Karen W. Saakvitne, Sarah J. Gamble, L. Pearlman, B. Lev. 2000

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Implementing Trauma-Informed Care in Correctional Treatment and Supervision (2018, methodology): “Trauma-informed practices incorporate relational elements that provide a sense of safety, empowerment, trust, and respect in service settings across an array of problems, populations, and theoretical models (Covington, 2007; Saakvitne et al., 2000; SAMHSA, 2014a).”
Healing, Reconciliation, Forgiving and the Prevention of Violence after Genocide or Mass Killing: An Intervention and Its Experimental Evaluation in Rwanda (2005, methodology): “The framework we used, explicated in detail elsewhere, presents core concepts of respect, information, connection, and hope as the essential elements for healing (Saakvitne et al., 2000).”
Shared Trauma: The Therapist's Increased Vulnerability (2002, background): “Elsewhere, my colleagues and I have framed psychotherapeutic work with trauma survivors as a process of risking connection (Saakvitne et al., 2000) in which both patient and therapist must risk deep emotional connection, both intrapsychically, within themselves, and interpersonally, with one…”