Program Overview
This female-specific trauma program is 14 weeks long and is provided at Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) focuses on long-term cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal consequences of sexual and physical abuse, trauma, and substance. The Trauma, Recovery, and Empowerment Model (TREM) by Maxine Harris is used. The TREM approach utilizes a supportive, skill-building curriculum that teaches the participants techniques for mastery that will enhance their existing strengths for coping with life events. TREM emphasizes the development of trauma recovery skills including:
- Self-awareness
- Self-protection
- Self-soothing
- Emotional modulation
- Relation mutuality
- Accurate labeling of self and other
- Sense of agency and initiative-taking
- Consistent problem-solving
- Reliable parenting
- Possessing a sense of purpose and meaning
- Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse
- Judgment and decision-making
The group process begins with understanding trauma, with a transition through recovery, and ends in empowerment for each individual. The provider completes a Psychosocial Assessment / ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experience Screening) with each participant.
Eligibility Criteria
Participants must:
- Score moderate to high on the overall risk scales or moderate to high in a minimum of 2 needs scales, including criminal thinking, criminal personality, criminal involvement or substance abuse, and moderate to high in any two gender-specific needs scales
- Be psychologically and physically able to participate in the program
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