Module 8 of 11 in foundation course on TSM. Students may purchase one separate module or the whole course of 11 modules with a bundle discount. For: psychodramatists, psychologists, mental health professionals working with trauma, therapists, and social workers.

Participants will be able to:

-Describe the TSM Trauma Triangle and its many uses in education, therapy, and organizations.

-Distinguish the TSM Trauma Triangle from other models.

-Explain the Use of the TSM Trauma Triangle to show the internalization of trauma into victim, perpetrator, and the abandoning authority roles and how to transform the triangle with the addition of the appropriate authority role.

-Explain assessment methods in working with the TSM trauma-based roles of victim, perpetrator, and abandoning authority.

-Explore internalization of trauma into Victim, Perpetrator, and the Abandoning authority roles and how to transform the triangle with the addition of the appropriate authority role.

-Explain assessment methods in working with the TSM trauma-based roles of victim, perpetrator, and abandoning authority.

-Demonstrate ways to integrate TSM’s prescriptive roles to enact and transform the trauma-based roles safely and without re-traumatization.

-Explore their personal Trauma triangle pattern.

-Transform the identified pattern and build the role of Appropriate Authority that can stop the repetitious internalized pattern of trauma.

-Direct Stage 2 of 3 (Trauma based roles) drama, both: individual and group.

-Direct TSM Trauma Triangle Drama. Direct sharing at the end.

Using role theory, TSM’s Trauma Triangle incorporates the trauma-based roles of Victim, Perpetrator and Abandoning Authority, which is internalized when there is no rescuer available in the interpersonal world. The TSM role of the Abandoning Authority describes how trauma survivors learn to abandon themselves to dissociation, self-harm, addictions, eating disorders, and lack of self-care.

The Trauma Triangle represents a closed circuit of energy embedded in the personality structure of those who have survived cruelty or trauma, repeating itself as life-long patterns of abuse and neglect. Through personal dramas, this Module provides tools to transform the trauma-based roles, empowering transformation from self-neglect to self-care, and instilling healthy problem-solving into daily life. The transformative role of Appropriate Authority is taught as the antidote to being stuck in the TSM Trauma Triangle.

Assessment and enactment of the TSM Trauma Triangle is taught as a pen and paper tool, in action by walking the triangle, and/or by using sociodrama or individual psychodrama


Module Includes:

Reading materials: 

-PTSD Unites the World 2017.

-Psychodrama Revisited 2019

-Chapter 3 Evolution of TSM

-TSM Psychodrama: Chapter Three

-TSM Trauma Triangle.

Main Content

· Video lectures - 25 min

· Video Demonstration - 34 min

· Handouts - 171 min 

· Practicum - 45 min



Breaks - 55 min 

Each 50 min of content requires a 10 min break that will be included in your total certified hours

Hours for Certificate

· 5:30 Hours Total

Information on Continuing Education Credits

Psychodrama professional certification training hours: 

• American Board of Examiners - ABE accepts a maximum of 120 training hours for psychodrama distant learning. This module/course will count as asynchronous distance-learning as long as the primary trainer approves it.

• Psychodrama Association for Europe e.V.: We are working on getting board approval and will update this information shortly. 

• International Boards: You may be able to submit this certificate to your local Psychodrama board. Please contact your respective local board for information.

To obtain Psychodrama training hours:

a) Pass the test with at least 70% correct

b) Fill in the survey 

Experiential training hours: 

• International Society of Experiential Professionals: ISEP accepts experiential training hours administered by a TEP trainer. More information will be provided shortly. 

Social workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors: 

• We are working on getting board's approvals and will update this information shortly. 

Other Disciplines:

• You may be able to submit this certificate for credits in other mental health disciplines. Please contact your local board for information.

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