Beyond Trauma: A Healing Journey for Women
“In keeping with her groundbreaking role in integrating the treatment of trauma and addictions and providing gender-specific and gender-responsive programs, Dr. Stephanie Covington has done it again. Her revised Beyond Trauma: A Healing Journey for Women is a highly organized and structured group that is state of the art in terms of the information that is included. The facilitator’s guide is very descriptive and specific in a way that supports the group leaders and members every step of the way. Since group treatment provides a unique forum for healing both trauma and addictions, this is a most welcome contribution”
Christine A. Courtois, PhD, ABPP
Psychologist, Independent Practice, Washington, DC
Author, It’s Not You, It’s What Happened to You; Healing the Incest Wound; and Treating Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-based Approach (with Julian Ford, PhD)
“In Dr. Covington’s newest edition of Beyond Trauma, she masterfully combines the depth and nuance of her original evidence-based curriculum with new and important material, including up-to-date neuroscience research and a deeper integration of mind-body approaches to healing. Her gift for drawing on the experience and strength of survivors dealing with a range of complex issues and creating a healing process that touches the multiple dimensions of what makes us human - and in a culturally attuned and gender-responsive way - is a true contribution to the field”
Carole Warshaw MD
Director, National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health
“The Covington Curriculum has become the definitive approach to helping women in a variety of settings address the trauma so many have experienced. Dr. Covington's work is thoughtful, insightful and impactful. Beyond Trauma in its 2nd edition continues the important work begun over a decade ago. Dr. Covington was among the first to draw our attention to the importance of addressing trauma in helping women reclaim their lives and she has done it in a manner that professionals and lay people as well can comprehend and use. This approach is sensible, accessible and offers the means of providing to women in custody the help they need and that we need to provide to fulfill our missions.”
Martin F. Horn is Distinguished Lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City
Previously he served as Commissioner of Correction and Probation of the City of New York and as Secretary of Corrections for the State of Pennsylvania
“Comprehensive, beautifully written, and practical support for leading trauma recovery groups. This reflects Stephanie Covington's unique ability to take multiple threads and weave together a wholistic, gender specific, and hopeful guide to support the healing for trauma survivors.”
Janet Surrey, Ph.D., Founding Scholar, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Stone Center, Wellesley College
Author of The Buddha's Wife: The Path of Awakening Together
“Stephanie Covington here demonstrates a wonderful touch. In Beyond Trauma she proves herself to be an astute clinician who has produced a magnificent work on helping women recover from toxic stress and trauma, to which so many have been exposed. While Part One of this volume makes obvious Covington’s extensive knowledge of the science behind her approach, her breadth and depth of experience are nowhere more evident than in Parts Two and Three, where she elaborates the ways that facilitators can get it right. Her recommendations range from the minute to the grand but truly reflect the compassionate stance Covington embodies in her writing. She has quite literally thought of everything a prospective group leader might want to know about assisting women "beyond trauma." Covington expresses these guidelines clearly and with the illuminating voice of one who knows well what she so brilliantly speaks.”
Roger D. Fallot, Ph.D. Independent Consultant in Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care and adjunct faculty, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.