The Body Keeps the Score Book Study

Starting June 1st, Adoption Support Alliance will host an online book study of the best seller: The Body Keeps the Score. This book study, created by the podcast team of Trauma-Informed Everything by Allison Sweatman, LSCW, and Andie Coston, MSW intern, was designed for persons and families who have experienced, or whose loved ones,  have experienced trauma. This specific course is offered to Adoptive Parents and Professionals who care for or work with foster children, adoptees, or others who have experienced trauma. Discussions will focus on applying the book’s heavy content to practical, real-life understanding and application with a focus on adoption.

For those unfamiliar with The Body Keeps the Score, the author Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk, is one of the leading researchers on Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome and trauma. Throughout the text, he offers insight into current clinical research on trauma, a detailed study of the brain, the effects…