Developing Trauma Informed Services for Psychosis

Kristina Muenzenmaier is associate clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA. Her clinical and research interests focus on public psychiatry and childhood trauma in people with serious mental illness and psychosis. Mara Conan was asistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA (2003-2014). She has worked for over 30 years as a psychologist in public psychiatry with individuals who were diagnosed with psychotic disorders. Gillian Stephens Langdon is an adjunct professor and internship supervisor in the Music Therapy Department at New York University, USA. A pioneer of music therapy, she has worked for over 40 years with people experiencing psychosis and trauma. Toshiko Kobayashi is an onsite supervisor and guest speaker at New York University. She worked for many years as an art therapist both in the United States and internationally. She developed Expressive Origami Therapy® and is president of the Origami Therapy Association. Currently, her focuses are intergenerational trauma and self-care. Andres R. Schneeberger is an associate clinical professor at the University of California San Diego, Department of Psychiatry, USA. His main clinical and research interest focus is on mental health care delivery, measurement-based care, aggression, coercion and complex traumatisation in minority populations and people with serious mental illness.

Introduction Part 1: Foundations of a Trauma Focused Approach in a Psychiatric Facility 1. the Relationship between Trauma and Psychosis: Historical Background and Theoretical Issues 2. Life Experience Behind and Beside Symptoms 3. Discovering Trauma Histories in People with Psychosis Leads to Political Action 4. Implementing Hospital-wide Trauma Assessments 5. Formation and Development of the Trauma Committee 6. Widening the Circle of Care: Trauma Programme for Staff Part 2: Trauma Focused Interventions: From Fragmentation to Integration 7. Exploring a Group Therapy Approach for Healing from Complex Trauma 8. Implemeting a Trauma Informed Approach on an Inpatient Unit 9. Trauma Informed Care in Outpatient Clinics 10. Family Therapy Model for Treating Trauma in People with Serious Mental Illness 11. Towards an LGBTQI+ Affirmative and Trauma Informed Approach in People with Psychosis Part 3: Trauma Focused Interventions: Collaboration with Creative Arts Therapies Opens Up New Doors in Trauma Treatment 12. Music Therapy: Exploring a Structured Trauma Informed Group Therapy Model 13. Interweaving Words and Music in Music-Verbal Therapy Trauma Groups 14. Developing Structured Art Therapy Groups to Treat Complex Trauma 15. Folding and Unfolding: Expanding Trauma Focused Art Therapy 16. Trauma Informed Dance/Movement Therapy: Embodied Moving and Dancing Conclusion