As Director of
the Trauma Relief Unlimited, (T.R.U.) Research Study, I am pleased to
acknowledge the many people who made this study possible. First and foremost, I
am deeply indebted to my wife Joan P. McLaughlin, Director of Training and
Development for the T.R.U. Program, for her unwavering support, valuable
suggestions and constant faith in me and in the T.R.U. method. That is no less
true today than it was a year ago when a similar report was written for the
T.R.U. Pilot Project.
I
am grateful, once again, to Dr. Ronald V. Gallo, President of the Rhode Island
Foundation, and his staff, for continued funding and support for T.R.U.
research. Moreover, I am grateful for his offer of continued funding and
support of a third T.R.U. study in 2002. Dr. Gallo’s early recognition of the
power and effectiveness of T.R.U., his vision and his commitment to T.R.U.
research has been appreciated beyond words.
Many, many thanks to Dr. Robert Valentini, Adjunct Professor at Brown
University, and President of Cellular Based Delivery, for his coordination of
the partnership between Brown University and the T.R.U. program. Without that
partnership, T.R.U. research might have ended with the Pilot Project.
I
owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. J. Michael Walker, Professor and Chairman of
Psychology and Professor of Neurosciences, Brown University, for his welcome,
personal and professional, to the Brown University Department of Psychology. As
a Visiting Research Associate at Brown I have been able to secure the
institutional support necessary, including an IRB and the use of financial
offices.
Also, at Brown University, I am grateful for the support of Dr. William
Heindel, for providing IRB coordination. No mention of the Brown involvement
would be complete without acknowledging the many helpful contributions of Ms.
Patricia Devine, Executive Director of the Department of Psychology. I have
worked with many administrators in my nearly 25 year career, none better than
Patricia.
Many thanks to Dr. Lynn Andreosi Fontaine, Ph.D., Department of
Psychology, Community College of Rhode Island, for her ongoing, seemingly
endless and tireless, work to collect, tabulate, and report the findings of
this extensive 40 person, control group study. Not to mention her valuable
scientific and methodological insights.
A
word of thanks to Ms. Paula Smith, LICSW who agreed to be T.R.U. trained, on
somewhat short notice, to participate as the “other” treatment provider in the
study. The official results are not yet
completely tabulated but Paula’s raw scores look great.
I
am grateful for the contributions of Ms.Barbara Allen, LICSW, Dr. Vicki Moss,
Ph.D., Ms.Christine P. Stinson, MA., LCMHC,CDP, Mr. Gunter A. Vukic, Rev. Janet
Cooper Nelson, Brown University Chaplan, Ms. Pamela Stanton, M.A. and many
other community helping professionals who referred people to this study. Again, I don’t have the official numbers at
this writing, however, a large percentage of those participating, best estimate
35% or more, were referred, as opposed to those who came from newspaper
announcements. Our “N” scores would have been much lower without this valuable
assist from the professional community.
Finally, I am deeply indebted to, and grateful for, the actual
participants in this study.
Without their willingness and courage to try
a new way this study would not have been possible. My sincere hope is their
reward is a better life free of traumatic interference.
Robert M. Cicione, LICSW