Sandra K Bloom

Clinical Applications of Drama Therapy in Child and Adolescent Treatment

As an emerging psychotherapeutic discipline, drama therapy has been gaining global attention over the last decade for its demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of child and adolescent populations. However, despite this attention and despite the current turbulent state of the world and the increasin...

Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility

Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility offers a unique layperson’s introduction to the scope and causes of violence and trauma theory and suggests ways we can all work to attack these causes. Upon completing this work, you will have a better understanding of the social causes of the...

Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Service Delivery Systems

For the last thirty years, the nation's mental health and social service systems have been under relentless assault, with dramatically rising costs and the fragmentation of service delivery rendering them incapable of ensuring the safety, security, and recovery of their clients. The resulting organi...

Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies

Creating Sanctuary makes some broadly challenging statements about human nature and social organization. Dr. Sandra Bloom interweaves the individual and the social, the personal and the political, with the story of how she and a group of friends and colleagues created a traditional psychiatric milie...

Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Service Delivery Systems

For the last thirty years, the nation's mental health and social service systems have been under relentless assault, with dramatically rising costs and the fragmentation of service delivery rendering them incapable of ensuring the safety, security, and recovery of their clients. The resulting organi...

Restoring Sanctuary: A New Operating System for Trauma-Informed Systems of Care

This is the third in a trilogy of books that chronicle the revolutionary changes in our mental health and human service delivery systems that have conspired to disempower staff and hinder client recovery. Creating Sanctuary documented the evolution of The Sanctuary Model therapeutic approach as an ...

Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies, Revised Edition

Creating Sanctuary is a description of a hospital-based program to treat adults who had been abused as children and the revolutionary knowledge about trauma and adversity that the program was based upon. This book focuses on the biological, psychological, and social aspects of trauma. Fifteen years ...

Waiting to Believe

In a coming-of-age story unlike any other, feisty young Kacey Doyle retreats to a secluded Minnesota convent as the challenging turbulence of the sixties is about to begin. Torn between her calling to leave the world behind, and the world that seems to call to her more urgently each day, Kacey's jou...

Clinical Applications of Drama Therapy in Child and Adolescent Treatment

Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility