Healing one life at a time, the Core Integrity Model (CIM) has proven to be remarkably effective in treating extreme trauma (often in a shorter period of time than other treatments). Simply put, it works. CIM-trained therapists consistently report that, as clients heal, they are more able to sustain themselves rather than rely on government largesse. Advantage:Clients’ economic viability.
One reason for its effectiveness is that its design is based on input from survivors of extreme trauma. With the Core Integrity Model, trauma survivors receive tools to manage crisis without the need for costly hospitalization. Other positives of the model: • It provides a Standard of Care that is consistent with that of the national professional organizations. • It does not compete with other modalities. • It can be used along with other treatment methods, giving the Model a broad-based appeal.
Moreover, because theCore Integrity Model provides a consistent Standard of Care, it offers added value: the opportunity to utilize back-up resources (other similarly trained therapists) if the primary therapist is unavailable.
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How the Core Integrity Model differs from other modalities.
The two leading professional organizations in research and development of treatment and standards of care are the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD) and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). While there are differences in modalities and foci within these organizations, there is common agreement that therapy must progress through "phases" or "stages." In the mid 1990's, these organizations issued standards of care for trauma treatment.
Lowell Routley, Ph.D., a member of both organizations, was a frontrunner in trauma treatment in the Midwest. In 1987, Dr. Routley began training Midwest therapists in trauma treatment and standards of care. Dr. Routley founded and chaired the Iowa Study Group for Dissociation, a ISSD chapter, and presented training seminars on trauma and use of the Core Integrity Model. At the same time, Jim McCarthy, M.A., a social movements researcher, was consulting with trauma survivors and their therapists to make sense of memories of trauma within deviant social movements. His interviews with survivors resulted in identifying what interventions worked with the various contexts and phenomenology of trauma. Mr. McCarthy has trained therapists nation-wide in the phenomenology of trauma contexts. Upon meeting in 1997, Jim and Lowell began the collaboration that resulted in Heartland Initiative.
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