Subtitled : New perspectives on creating an environment for recovery

This early (2012) collection of essays covers a much wider range of the territory of innovative and trauma-informed services that the PIEs approach later began to map out more comprehensively.

These essays, some co-written or commissioned and edited for publication here, are strung together with a narrative that teases out some of the underlying themes that later became part of the PIEs 2.0 framework, although not named at that early stage.

Some of the essays here - those marked with an asterisk - are availale from the PIElink library.

Note that the account here of the development and potential in psychologically informed environments precedes even the formulation of PIEs One.

A second edition is planned - but there is no plausiable date yet as to when this may be ready.

Complex trauma and its effects - new perspectives on creating an environment for recovery

Introduction - Trauma in human experience

THE NATURE OF TRAUMA

• Introduction
• Everybody’s Problem : the personality disorder dimension
• Perspectives from the biological sciences
• Perspectives from the socila sciences
• Socio-emotional systems

INNOVATIONS IN PRACTICE

• Introduction
• Children without play
• Playing with freedom
• For argument's sake
• Debating at the Urban Academy
• Turmoil and transition: St Basils
• On assessment : PD typologies and 'learned defiance' in the prision opulation
• The Drama Triangle and other 'unwanted repetitive paterns'
• Empowering the victim in the criminal justicde system
• An occupational hazard : managing traumatic incidents in the fire and rescue service
• The trauma of war
• Homelessness, complex trauma and recovery
• Banking on time: Potter Street Time Bank
• Building recovery communities
• A one-stop community
• Trauma in later life
• Common theads

THREE: THE FUTURE

• Introduction
• Communities once and future
• Psychology in the environment
• Enabling environments, public health and human vaues
• Conclusion