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Thank you for attending

When Help Harms:

The Hidden Complexity of Trauma-Related Treatment

PRESENTED BY

Dr. Stella B. Keitel, Breaktide

Kevin Bandy, Voyage Recovery Center

PRESENTED TO

Attendees of the Adolescent and Youth Advocacy Collective

On June 10th, 2026 in Malibu, CA

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Appelbaum, P. S. (1998). Assessing patients’ capacities to consent to treatment. New England Journal of Medicine, 357(18), 1834–1840.

 

Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2013). Motivational interviewing: Helping people change (3rd ed.). Guilford Press.

 

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Freyd, J. J. (1996). Betrayal trauma: The logic of forgetting childhood abuse. Harvard University Press. 

 

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van der Kolk, B. A. (2014). The body keeps the score. Viking.

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