Current Research Projects
Women's Yoga and Health and Self-Care Study
Are you stuck in a rut? Are you an adult woman survivor of childhood trauma? Have you had at least three years of treatment and are you still haunted by symptoms?
You may be eligible for a study that includes gentle, trauma-sensitive yoga and a health and self-care program. This study focuses on helping you to be in charge of your body. No medications are involved in the study. You are also allowed and encouraged to maintain current individual therapy and medication treatments.
We are currently doing phone screens for the study. Women who wish to participate in the study should contact Ritu Sharma, Ph.D., Project Coordinator, at 617-232-1303 x-208, or rsharma@traumacenter.org. to learn more about eligibility criteria.
Attachment, Self-regulation, & Competency (ARC)
Recognized by the NCTSN as a promising practice, ARC is a comprehensive framework for intervention with youth exposed to complex trauma. Intervention is tailored to each client's needs and may include individual and group therapy for children, education for caregivers, parent-child sessions, and parent workshops.
Improvisational Theater-based Youth Violence Prevention
As a funded member of the Hamilton Fish Institute's Youth Violence Prevention Consortium and with support from the Roy A. Hunt Foundation and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, we have evaluated and developed programs for the past five years that utilize structured improvisational theater to teach violence prevention and conflict resolution to Boston public school students. In collaboration with Urban Improv, we have developed Trauma Drama, an intervention for violence-exposed middle school students, as well as a teacher-led companion curriculum to Urban Improv for elementary school students.
Neurofeedback Study
The Trauma Center is committed to exploring the capacity of neurofeedback to help traumatized individuals. The Trauma Center recently received a three-year grant from the ANS Foundation in London, UK, to study and document the effectiveness of NFB for traumatized children and adults. Our center is currently involved in a pilot study to investigate the ways NFB can address problems experienced by adults impacted by trauma and is in the process of recruiting traumatized adults to participate in a study to examine the effectiveness of NFB. Participants will complete in-depth baseline, weekly, and monthly measurement of their overall level of functioning, and receive weekly NFB administered by the Center's trained NFB practitioners.
Adults who wish to participate in the study should contact Mark Gapen, Ph.D. at (617) 232-1303, x213. Please note that our grant funding does not cover participant treatment; neurofeedback treatment at the Trauma Center is available on a self-pay basis only.
