Trauma-informed therapy is…what, exactly? And is trauma actually stored in the body, or is that just a clever narrative that a few enterprising gurus have used to sell books and trainings? We dig deep into the research on trauma to answer these questions and more, and Carrie introduces her breakthrough trauma-focused treatment: dog therapy.

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Show Notes:

• Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services: Appendix C – Historical Account of Trauma

• Treating PTSD: A Review of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Interventions

• Key Ingredients for Successful Trauma-Informed Care Implementation

• What Is Trauma-Informed Therapy?

• Is Your Therapist ‘Trauma-Informed’? (And Why It Matters)

• Envisioning a trauma-informed service system: A vital paradigm shift

• Trauma-Informed Care (Encyclopedia of Social Work)

• Why Trauma-Informed Care Matters

• Trauma- and violence-informed care (Wikipedia)

• Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services: Chapter 1 – Trauma-Informed Care: A Sociocultural Perspective

• The relative efficacy of bona fide psychotherapies for treating post-traumatic stress disorder: a meta-analysis of direct comparisons

• APA Clinical Practice Guidelines for Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Adults

• APA Clinical Practice Guidelines PTSD Treatment Recommendations

• Clinical Practice Guidelines: Beneficial Development or Bad Therapy?

• Relationships and Responsiveness in the Psychological Treatment of Trauma: The Tragedy of the APA Clinical Practice Guideline

• Our Primitive Response to Stress

• Debunking Myths About Trauma and Memory

• The Return of the Repressed: The Persistent and Problematic Claims of Long-Forgotten Trauma

• Belief in Unconscious Repressed Memory Persists

• Exploring the Controversy of Polyvagal Theory

• The Brilliant Marketing of Bessel van der Kolk and Stephen Porges and His Polyvagal Theory

• Polyvagal Theory – Useful Narrative but Still Just a Theory

• The Problem with The Polyvagal Theory

• Domestication of the dog (Wikipedia)

• Dogs as Pets: How Dogs May Have Helped Homo Sapiens Triumph Over Neanderthals

• What Happened to Mirror Neurons?

• What is Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB)?