Trauma Model Therapy: A Treatment Approach for Trauma Dissociation and Complex Comorbidity

Colin A. Ross, M.D. and Naomi Halpern C.Q.S.W. have developed a new treatment manual for treating Trauma, Dissociation and Complex Comorbidity. The manual builds on a previous book, The Trauma Model by expanding on the ideas and providing concrete, practical skills on the 'how to' of therapy. Trauma Model Therapy is written primarily for therapists, but can also be read by the general public. The book provides hands-on techniques, strategies and interventions in two ways: through description and discussion and through transcripts of therapy conservations. The research, clinical interventions and ideas presented are a combination of the authors' experience, original ideas and a composite of the work of many prominent researchers, and clinicians in the field.

Colin A. Ross, M.D. received his degree from the University of Alberta in 1981 and completed his psychiatry training at the University of Manitoba in 1985. He moved from Canada to Texas in 1991 and has been running a Trauma Program in the Dallas area since then. Besides his work at Timberlawn Hospital in Dallas, Dr. Ross consults to Trauma Programs at Forest View Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Del Amo Hospital in Torrance, California. Naomi Halern, is Co-Director of The Delphi Centre, Melbourne, Australia. She qualified as a Social Worker in the U.K. in 1983. Prior to entering private practice at The Delphi Centre in 1987, she worked with homeless youth, children in State care and convicted offenders, in government and charity organizations in the U.K. and Australia. Naomi has specialized in therapy, case consultations and professional development training in the areas of severe trauma, abuse and dissociative disorders for over two decades. She has presented her nationally and internationally. Naomi has provided emergency consultation related to the development of trauma and psychosocial training programs for the United Nations.