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Welcome! January 2012 |
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Happy New Year to our IRRT friends and family!
We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and feel refreshed for the upcoming year. In this month's newsletter, you'll read fascinating client success stories, testimonials, and guest articles. Click on the links below to read the articles. If you would like to be a contributor, please email us at cleartrauma@gmail.com. Thank you for all you do!
"You will learn to painlessly and completely heal the invisible wounds of trauma."
~ Jason Quintal, PhD, LCSW, Certified RRT Practitioner |
    
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ISSV: The Violence Against Women Act |
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 By Tara Dickherber, M.Ed, LPC
Certified Practitioner, Rapid Resolution Therapy
As shocking as it may seem, there are many amazing and talented women in the ISSV/IRRT community. We are dedicated, both men and women, to making this a safer and healthier world. One way that we have made a step in that direction is to make it known that we, as a community, stand by the policies of the Violence Against Women Act. The way we have recently done this is by signing on to the NFT VAWA (National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women) letter to our Senators and Representatives to reauthorize the VAWA. VAWA programs help create safety for victims of domestic and sexual violence as well as holding perpetrators accountable. It was amazing to me to learn that in the first six years of the start of the VAWA, such programs saved nearly $12.6 billion net averted social costs. Did you know that the rate of non-fatal intimate partner violence against women has decreased by 63 percent because more women are reporting domestic violence to the police? To me those are amazingly huge numbers!
The VAWA is due for reauthorization soon. If you would like to voice your opinion personally or if your organization/company would like to take a stand for this incredibly significant organization, please click here to see how to make that happen. I also want to put out a big THANK YOU to everyone who has come forward to volunteer their time, knowledge, and talents to the ISSV committee. I am so amazed and excited to see the ISSV growing. We will be 10 years in the making next year, and I have no doubt given all the support and input that I am finding as the Executive Director that 2012 will be the best year yet. I cannot say it enough how grateful I am to be a part of this amazing community of transformative healers. May we continue to find ways to transform the lives of the many survivors out there! Be well, Be happy - Tara Tara S. Dickherber, M.Ed, LPC
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How RRT Cleared A 7-Year-Old Girl's Trauma |
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Certified Practitioner, Rapid Resolution Therapy
 This 7-year-old
child was referred by the psychiatric hospital upon release. One year prior to
her hospitalization she was physically and sexually assaulted by two
babysitters. Her presenting issues prior to treatment were escalating
behavioral issues, anxiety, suicidal ideations, threats and attempts which led
to being hospitalized three times within one year. Her suicidal attempts
included cutting, hanging and suffocating herself. She had also been through
four months of therapy. Her single mother was desperate for help with several
younger children to care for while providing 24/7 suicide watch. When I
met with her for treatment she refused to leave her mother's sight so I sat
with her on the front steps of her mobile home with the door open and her
mother sitting just inside. I established connection with her and created a
baseline visual metaphor with her which is a visual symbol created by the
participant for the way her mind has been responding to the traumatic event.
Her baseline visual metaphor was, in her words, "like a tornado--dark."
I cleared
the traumatic memory using RRT while keeping the child emotionally present and
responding to what was happening which was sitting with me playing a game on
the front steps of her home. This game involved her sharing the narrative of
the traumatic event with ease and laughter. This game of telling and retelling
her story while correcting me as I recounted the story with intentional
inaccuracy was so funny to her that she collapsed in laughter and her mother,
overhearing this life changing conversation, was laughing too. The horrible
"incident" had become as innocuous as data on a sheet of paper. The setting
allowed mom to reprocess the experience too.  A final
RRT intervention intended to update inner mind involves a process through which
the child learns that the traumatic event no longer exists and that there is
nothing that needs to be done was once again completed with ease and laughter.
When I asked her about the "tornado-- dark", she said, "It's not there
anymore." Then she added, "It's done!" while motioning her extended thumb over
her shoulder with a big smile.
It has
been almost two months since RRT and this child has had no further mention or
indication of any suicidal thoughts, ideas or plans. The family continues to
experience difficulties including eviction, however, thankfully they are no
longer dealing with this stressor.
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IRRT Research, Military Outreach and Book Update
By Dr. Sharon Richie-Melvan
Certified Practitioner, Rapid Resolution Therapy
We are closing in on
the February 1 start date of our 2012 IRRT Study 2 with the identification of
two new measures we will use in addition to the Study 1 Pre and Post treatment
measure the PCL-C (17 item PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version). The
second measure is the Life Events
Checklist (LEC), a one page self-report measure designed to screen for 16
events known to potentially result in PTSD or distress in a client's lifetime.
The client checks whether the stressful event (a) happened to them personally,
(b) they witnessed the event, (c) they learned about the event, (d) they are
not sure if the item applies to them, or (e) the item does not apply to them.
Developed by Blake, Weathers, Nagy, Kaloupek, Charney & Keane in 1995 and
available from the National Center for PTSD, the LEC has demonstrated adequate
psychometric properties as a stand-alone assessment of traumatic exposure. Our third
proposed measure, the 12 item Working
Alliance Inventory will be filled out by both the therapist and the client
following the first (and only for some) RRT session.
Certified Practitioners
(CP) may volunteer to participate in the study at the January 2012 retreat or via
an email request to cleartrauma.com. The minimum qualifications are a
professional degree and at least 100 RRT training hours. A detailed procedural
guide for the study will be posted on the CP website and made available at the
retreat. Once you receive your study documents (ie., a client welcome letters,
consent forms, client data sheets, assessment tools and stamped/addressed
envelopes) you may begin screening clients for the study. Our goal is to have at
least 60 RRT clients who complete their RRT treatment and submit all of the pre
and post treatment assessment measures.
 There is still time
to get your name on the list of certified RRT practitioners who volunteer to
speak at local Military Officer Association of America (MOAA) chapter meetings.
I will be presenting that list of CPs at the state convention of MOAA chapter presidents
on January 14, 2012. Thanks to LTC Sandra McNaughton (see photos), I will have
the opportunity to welcome home from their deployment and interview the nurses
of the 86th Combat Support Hospital on February 4, 2011 at Fort
Campbell, KY. LTC McNaughton is featured in the book Angel Walk: Nurses at War in Iraq and Afghanistan and serves as a
soldier advocate for those currently serving and those medically retired. She
like other Army nurses can serve as our "Town Criers" to remind veterans that
we are here and ready to serve them.
Photo: Army nurse LTC
Sandra McNaughton with the M240 machine gun preparing to leave for a mission.
The IRRT is one of
several hypnotherapists asked to propose a smoking cessation and weight loss
program for the civilian employees at the Tampa, FL VA Hospital. Given our
group of certified practitioners, we are uniquely qualified to provide a
standardized quality assured program to this large group of clients. Stay tuned
for developments. Many thanks to Sue Morrow, a recent Level 2 student who
provided RRT for an Army Surgeon who had served two tours of duty in Iraq and
to the other CPs who have treated veterans. We hope to capture their stories
and include their healing RRT work in a special military chapter in our
upcoming book. Another addition to the book will be provided our Executive
Director Melinda Paige. She will be combing the RRT video library for unique
RRT cases and identifying miraculous healing stories of clients seen by Dr. Jon
Connelly. Thanks to all who sending in their case studies; keep them coming!! 
Article courtesy of Dr. Sharon
Richie-Melvan, Ph.D., Certified Rapid Resolution Therapist. Dr.
Sharon also co-authored the book, "Angel Walk: Nurses at War in Iraq
and Afghanistan," with Dr. Diane Vines, Ph.D, Certified Rapid
Resolution Therapist. Within the book, Dr. Sharon recommends Rapid
Resolution Therapy as a PTSD treatment approach (p. 97). To purchase
your copy today, please click here. |
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Upcoming RRT Trainings
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Clinical Hypnosis with Rapid Trauma Resolution 3-Day Training
Presented by Dr. Jon Connelly
Feb. 3 - 5, Los Angeles, CA
March 23 - 25, San Antonio, TX
April 13 - 15, Tampa, FL
June 8 - 10, Des Plaines, IL
March 2 - 4, Los Angeles, CA
April 27 - 29, San Antonio, TX
May 18 - 20, Tampa, FL
July 13 - 15, Des Plaines, IL
Jan. 20 - 22, Tampa, FL
June 1 - 3, Los Angeles, CA For more information on Rapid Resolution Trainings, please click here. |
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Dr. Jon Connelly |
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Dr. Jon Connelly is the founder and developer of Rapid Resolution Therapy, a revolutionary psychotherapeutic approach to emotional and behavioral difficulties. He is the author of Life Changing Conversations - The Power of Transformational Communication, which demonstrates that dramatic therapeutic breakthroughs can be facilitated in a single psychotherapy session. Dr. Connelly is the founder of The Institute for Survivors of Sexual Violence, a non-profit (501C3) organization providing mental health professionals with state-of-the-art training in advanced clinical methods of eliminating the negative influence of trauma.