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by Bill Coleman (Author)
A manual for clinicians describing a pen and paper exercise for clinicians working with complex post traumatic stress. The exercise produces a mandala of traumatic stresses and the defensive strategies developed that produced dysfunctional adult behaviors. The purpose is to help trauma survivors make sense of their adult behaviors by tracing them back to childhood stress; and to further expand such understanding by seeing, graphically, the past and present as occurring all in the present.
Author Biography
Bill Coleman, LMSW, TEP is a Certified Psychodrama Trainer and Licensed Master Social Worker in Arizona. He has led psychodrama groups at Sierra Tucson for Chemical Dependency, Mood Disorders, Trauma, Sex Addiction, Eating Disorders and Pain Management. He is also affiliated with Desert Star Addiction Treatment Center, a new Intensive Outpatient Program in Tucson. Bill has also added neurofeedback to his therapeutic skills and has created a separate practice known as The Middle Way. He is originally from New York where he worked at Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital directing Psychodrama groups for dually diagnosed inpatient and outpatient adolescents. He was an Adjunct Professor of Theater Therapy at Russell Sage College. He is on the faculty of the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute where he periodically teaches psychodrama for clinicians (see www.hvpi.net). Bill is also associated with the Action Institute of California (see: www.theactioninstitute.com). He has presented at many national conferences on Trauma, Addiction and Psychodrama.
