Contributed by Laurie Leitch

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Military people in a group therapy session / Photo by RDNE Stock project/Pexels

It Takes a Community

Therapy-As-Usual Can't Serve the Needs of Our Returning Troops
Laurie Leitch&Elaine Miller-Karas

Our standard psychotherapeutic paradigm is unequal to the mammoth challenge of serving the troops who've served in Iraq and Afghanistan. What's needed is a... Read more

Display cases at the Gisozi District National Memorial overlooking Kigali, with the bones and skulls of some of the more than 300,000 genocide victims

Journey to Rwanda

A therapist Confronts the Unthinkable
Laurie Leitch

Some years ago, Rwanda was the hellish scene of one of the most ferocious genocides in history. A therapist who traveled there reports on what it's like to... Read more

Laurie Leitch

Laurie Leitch, PhD, is cofound and codirector of development and evaluation for the Resource Institute, which offers training in the brief stabilization model Trauma Trauma Resiliency Model First Aide. She’s the director of research for The Foundation for Human Enrichment.