Board Member Accomplishments

Karen Saakvitne, PhD recently presented two Daylong workshops for the Brattleboro Retreat:  Changing Intergenerational Patterns: Therapeutic Interventions with Survivor Parents. These workshops were October 15, 2009 in Montpelier, VT and December 3, 2009 at Brattleboro. Dr. Saakvitne also completed a Vicarious Traumatization consultation and intervention to child and family agency in Springfield, MA, May- July 2009. She served as a Consultatant to an NIH Grant # R34MHO79970: Risking Connection Training for Primacy Care Physicians – February - August, 2009.

Dr. Laurie Pearlman published the following works in 2009: 

Staub, E., Pearlman, L.A., & Bilali, R. (in press). Understanding the roots and impact of violence and psychological recovery as avenues to reconciliation after mass violence and intractable conflict: Applications to national leaders, journalists, community groups, public education through radio, and children. In G. Salomon & E. Cairns (Eds.), Handbook of peace education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 

Deiter-Sands, P.J., & Pearlman, L.A. (2009). Self-injury: Treatment of a complex adaptation. In P.M. Kleespies (Ed.), Behavioral emergencies: An evidence-based resource for evaluating and managing risk of suicide, violence, and victimization (pp. 211-234). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Pearlman, L.A., & Caringi, J. (2009). Living and working self-reflectively to address vicarious trauma. In C.A. Courtois & J.D. Ford (Eds.), Treating complex traumatic stress disorders: An evidence-based guide (pp. 202-224). New York: Guilford Press.

Staub, E., & Pearlman, L.A. (2009). Reducing intergroup prejudice and group conflict: A commentary. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 96, 588-93.

Dr. Laurie Pearlman has the following works in progress:

Hayes, R., & Pearlman, L.A. (manuscript in preparation). The riptides of trauma: Reenactments, self-regulation and attachment. In M.P. Duckworth & V.M. Follette (Eds.), Retraumatization: Assessment, treatment, and prevention. New York: Routledge. 

Pearlman, L.A., Rando, T.A., Farber, C.H., Feuer, C.A., & Wortman, C.B. (manuscript in preparation). An integrated treatment approach for traumatic bereavement. New York:

 Dr. Laurie Pearlman gave the following presentations in 2009:

Resilience among humanitarian staff: Psychological first aid and vicarious traumatization.” Presentation at the conference, “Coping and Resilience 2009,” Cavtat, Croatia.(October 4, 2009). 

Keynote address, “Transforming Trauma” seminar, Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY. (June 17, 2009).

“Vicarious  traumatization: Protecting the front line.” In-service seminar, University of Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Amherst, MA.  (March 9, 2009).

“Vicarious Traumatization, Vicarious Transformation.” The Plenary presentation at the annual behavioral health care conference, “Hope in Uncertain Times,” Joint Commission Resources, Chicago, IL. (November 17, 2009).

Dr. Laurie Pearlman will present:

Vicarious trauma: Protecting the front line,” and “Time to Say Goodbye: Ending Trauma Therapy Relationships,” Ben Franklin Institute, Chicago, IL, March 19, 2010

“Moral issues in trauma therapies: From Vicarious Traumatization to Vicarious Transformation,” Presentation in the conference, “Social Psychology of Morality: Exploring the Causes of Good and Evil,” Herzlyia, Israel, April 26-29, 2010.

Elizabeth A. Brett, Ph.D.will be presenting at this year’s International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Annual Conference. She will be part of a symposium on psychodynamic treatments for PTSD.

Elizabeth A. Brett, Ph.D. presented a paper on Acute Trauma at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, New Haven, CT November 2008.