2024
Carolyn B. Allard, PhD, ABPP
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This self-guided/self-help book provides scientifically proven strategies used in TrIGR therapy for reducing guilt and shame associated with trauma and adversity.
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Automatic reactions help us survive dangerous situations. Whether we are fighting to fend off an attacker, fleeing an explosion, or freezing to maintain attachment with an abusive parent upon whom we are dependent, our hard‑wired reactions keep us safe during intensely stressful times. But these automatic responses can be followed by guilt and shame, which can linger long after the traumatic events, making us anxious, avoidant, overreactive, irritable, depressed, angry, or passive. And these symptoms, in turn, can lead to more guilt and shame, which lead to more problematic coping behaviors, in a continuing cycle.
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This book helps readers learn to transform their unhealthy guilt and shame by identifying and changing their ways of thinking and acting that may have been adaptive in a past situation but are now keeping them stuck in this unhealthy cycle. Each chapter contains straightforward written exercises that guide readers through the transformation process, as well as relatable examples for illustration. Grounded in research-supported cognitive behavior therapy principles, this book will help readers break free from survival‑based reactivity and regain control over their lives.
2019
Sonya Norman, Carolyn Allard, Kendall Browned, Christy Capone, Brittany Davis, Edward Kubany
TrIGR is a brief psychotherapy that can be offered individually or in groups, as a standalone intervention or with other treatments. This book provides mental health professionals with the underlying theory and scientific evidence supporting TrIGR's effectiveness, a therapy manual, and a client workbook, for assessing and treating guilt and shame resulting from trauma and moral injury.
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2014
Carolyn Allard & Melissa Platt (Editors)
Showcases the work of several prominent military sexual trauma (MST) researchers, scholars, and clinicians from across the United States. A review of existing research and original empirical findings converge to indicate that MST contributes to a range of physical health problems, complex posttraumatic responses, and other mental health consequences above and beyond the effects of other types of traumatic experiences. In addition, an evolutionary framework for understanding sexual assault of women in the military is presented. Taken together, this collection of works may inform MST intervention and prevention efforts.
2010
Sonya Norman, Kendall Wilkins, Kimberly Baeressen, Steven Thorp, Regina Huelsenbeck, Erin Grimes, Carie Rodgers, Carolyn Allard
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As many as 1/3 of women in the general population and 50% of women seen in primary care experience abuse by an intimate partner during adulthood. The consequences of having experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) are quite alarming. Female IPV victims represent one of the largest traumatized populations in the United States. More than 60% of women who present to domestic violence shelters meet criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder. Alcohol use among female victims of IPV is common in the form of heavy, moderate or episodic drinking and appears to be both an outcome of and a risk factor for trauma. This book reviews the problems commonly associated with IPV, psychosocial treatments designed to help IPV victims, and research regarding the relationship between drinking and IPV.
