Volume 1: Introduction: Creating a Context for Change

Survivors of childhood trauma can carry those wounds of abuse, neglect, and abandonment forward, resulting in fractured adult relationships. In the first phase of the Collaborative Change Model you’ll learn how to use assessment, validation, attachment, and other therapeutic relationship-building skills to create a firm foundation for lasting change.

Volume 2: Challenging Patterns and Expanding Realities

Most couples arrive in therapy hoping for a new reality, but the path to real change is rarely straightforward––especially when there are histories of trauma. Once safety and understanding are established, therapists often face the next big question: how do we help couples actually do something different? In this volume, you’ll find a blueprint for supporting this vulnerable transition with clarity, compassion, and collaboration.

Volume 3: Consolidation: Creating the Next Context for Change

Adult survivors of childhood interpersonal violence who have begun their healing journeys need skills and support for solidifying gains and moving forward toward healthy and rewarding adult relationships. This video, the final in our three-volume series, features the third phase of Mary Jo Barrett’s Collaborative Change Model through which you will learn to help clients strengthen and consolidate positive change.

Mary Jo Barrett, MSW

Mary Jo Barrett, MSW, is the Founder and Director of The Center for Contextual Change (CCC), located in Metro Chicago; a clinical Training Center specializing in The Collaborative Stage Model-a component phase model working with individuals, families, and groups.

Ms. Barrett is a nationally prominent expert in the treatment of trauma and traumatic violence in the family and in our communities who works extensively with helping therapists prevent Compassion Fatigue and heal from Vicarious Traumatization. She is a leading authority on family violence, including the physical and sexual abuse of children, neglect, incest, spouse abuse, and neighborhood gun violence, and has been working on these issues in since 1974. Ms. Barrett has co-authored Treating Complex Trauma: A Relational Blueprint for Collaboration and Change (with Linda Stone Fish) and has co-authored two books with Dr. Terry Trepper: Treating Incest: A Multiple Systems Perspective and The Systemic Treatment of Incest: A Therapeutic Handbook. She provides consultations, workshops, and courses, nationally and internationally, to families, lawyers, psychotherapists, social service providers, staff of residential treatment facilities and staff of governmental agencies. 

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• Describe the impact of early developmental trauma on adult relationships
• Create a reparative therapeutic context for change conducive to safety
• Integrate components of the Collaborative Change Model into your own treatment planning and intervention with couples
• Demonstrate how to identify and challenge childhood survival strategies that no longer serve
• Create collaborations with couples to help them move toward their relationship goals
• Integrate trauma-informed interventions to support the internalization of new skills
• Identify ways to transition from a direct therapeutic role to a more supportive one
• Create termination rituals to consolidate therapeutic gains
• Utilize client feedback to support professional growth