TheHealingCrowd.com is a web site devoted to the application of action methods in group psychotherapy. Training, consultation, demonstrations, and supervision can be arranged by emailing or calling.

We are particularly interested in promoting these methods in the treatment of individuals with a dual diagnosis of intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. To this end, information, references, abstracts, excerpts, and full text research articles, and training material on the Interactive Behavioral Therapy (IBT) model are offered throughout this website.

IBT is an empirically validated form of group treatment that has become one of the most widely used form of group psychotherapy for this population.  There are some 2000 IBT groups throughout the world.

Links to other professional resources are also included. Please feel free to email with questions, ideas, and feedback.  Click the Contact Us link to sign-in and be included on our e-mail list. Your interest and comments are greatly appreciated.   We would like to know about the clinical, advocacy, or research work you are doing.  Please let us know so you can be part of our network and us part of yours.

Below are a few of our most recent publications.  You can find other articles throughout the site.

                                  Click HERE for Our latest research article

                                                        Click here for a recent article in PsychCentral.com

                                                        Click here for a recent article in  the New Jersey Psychologist

                                                        Click here for a recent article in the ARC Healthy Times

                                                  Confession of a Former Child: A Therapist's Memoir by Dan Tomasulo

                                                  out FormerChild.com or read the Kirkus review

                                                        Click on Book Cover or Read a Review

                Healing Trauma: The Power of Group Treatment for People with Intellectual Disabilities

                                                                                    by Nancy J.Razza and Daniel J.Tomasulo

                                        Award Winner! American Psychological Association's

                                first book on psychotherapy for people with Intellectual disabilities.

"Razza and Tomasulo have brought their vast experience in treating people with intellectual disabilities to this book about conducting group psychotherapy with these clients. Offering an innovative procedure, coupled with their accumulated clinical wisdom, they create an effective therapeutic intervention that combines principles of behavior therapy and psychodramatic techniques. Their interactive-behavioral therapy model represents a fascinating approach to group treatment of those with intellectual disabilities

as well as perpetrators of sexual abuse."

         __David A. Kipper, Ph.D, TEP, Research Professor of Psychology, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL

Just Released! Diagnostic Manual -- Intellectual Disability (DM-ID): A Textbook of Diagnosis of Mental Disorders in Persons with Intellectual Disability. A joint publication from the National Association for the Dually Diagnosed and The American Psychiatric Association.

IBT RESEARCH

“A truly therapeutic procedure cannot have less an objective than the whole of mankind.”

                                                                       J. L.Moreno-Founder of Psychodrama and Group Therapy

               

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