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What’s “Organizational Plasticity” Got to Do With It?
As springtime gets underway we have been reflecting with gratitude and excitement on the ways in which our work is expanding and the many individuals and organizations that share...
WAR AND INK: IMAGES AND STORIES TOLD THROUGH TATTOOS
Laurie Leitch and Brigadier General (ret.) Loree Sutton are in the process of putting together a book about the war-related tattoos of OEF/OIF active military and veterans. The...
Thinking Outside the Box
A better title for this would be “Thinking Outside the Brain.” Are you familiar with the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT? The work being done there reflects the...
Bottom-Up
Because I’m a science geek I am always on the lookout for new developments in neuroscience. My best excuse for trolling all the neuroscience sites I can find is so that our...
Islands of Healing: Trauma Resiliency in the Schools
Jean Berg's thesis, "Islands of Healing: Trauma Resiliency in the Schools," incorporates the Trauma Resilience Model with elementary school age children in Oregon. The...
Honoring Our Military Heroes and War Veterans
Katie Couric salutes our troops and shares amazing stories from the front lines. The first female soldier amputee shares her journey from the battlefield to the Paralympics....
NY Times: Wars on Drugs
LAST year, more active-duty soldiers committed suicide than died in battle. This fact has been reported so often that it has almost lost its jolting force. Almost. Worse,...
The new Praeger Handbook for Community Mental Health Practice
This book includes a case study by Laurie Leitch in which effective trauma work is explored through stories from one of Laurie's trips to a internally displaced persons camp in...
War and Ink: Images and Stories Told Through Tattoos
Laurie Leitch (L.leitch@comcast.net) and Brigadier General (ret.) Loree Sutton are in the process of putting together a book about the war-related tattoos of OEF/OIF active...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Ecstasy as PTSD Treatment?
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on research conducted by MAPS on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a PTSD treatment, featuring interviews with researchers, participants, and military...
Video: Building Resiliency in a Weary World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64nZ7WBnA8w
Video: Tapping Social Resilience
From Pop!Tech June 2012 (Reyjavik, Iceland) Retired Army Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton, MD and clinical trainer Laurie Leitch, Ph.D., founded Threshold GlobalWorks to explore a...