Linda Grabbe, PhD, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Her clinical expertise is in primary care and mental health care for homeless or incarcerated women and youth, providing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills training and Community Resilience Model (CRM) training in group settings.
Her interests include the neurobiology of trauma and resilience, social justice, and social determinants of mental health. Dr. Grabbe is a healthcare provider with Community Advanced Practice Nurses, a small non-profit organization that operates a network of clinics in Atlanta homeless shelters for women, children, and youth.
Dr. Grabbe’s research has been with women and youth at risk for mental illness, homelessness, and substance abuse. Her current research includes measuring the impact of Community Resiliency Model training on wellbeing and the emotional state of women in substance abuse treatment, as well as on wellbeing, resiliency, burnout, and effects of secondary traumatic stress in clinical pharmacists, nurses, first responders, medical and nursing staff, and nursing students.
In this conversation we discuss the origins of Community Resiliency Model (CRM) and the the power it has to quickly reduce impact of stress and trauma and equip an individual to deal with future stress factors expanding their resiliency zone. We talk about key components of CRM, such as tracking, grounding and resourcing. Tune in to learn more!
**Community Resiliency Model and Trauma-Informed Care Resources:**
CRM training: Trauma Resource Institute http://traumaresourceinstitute.com/ Atlanta training March 9-13, 2020
Free CRM app: ichill or www.ichillapp.com
Miller-Karas, E. (2015). Building resilience to trauma: The trauma and community resiliency models. New York: Routledge Press.
Van der Kolk, B. (2014). The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. New York: Penguin Publishing Group. Or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEjnGsLN-0
Brain-hand model: Dan Siegel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm9CIJ74Oxw
ACE study: www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy
Listen to Nadine Burke Harris on ACEs!! https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_across_a_lifetime; also Ted Talk by Atlanta’s Dr. Stan Sonu
Movie: Resilience (watch the 2 minute trailer) https://vimeo.com/137282528
**Background articles**
Grabbe, L. & Miller-Karas, E. (2018). The Trauma Resiliency Model: A “Bottom-up” intervention for trauma psychotherapy. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 24(1): 76-84. doi: 10.1177/1078390317745133.
Grabbe, L., Ball, J., Hall, J. (2016). Girlhood Betrayals of Women Survivors of Childhood Trauma in Treatment for Addiction. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 48(3), 232-243. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12202
Contact lgrabbe@emory.edu for a list of Atlanta body-based psychotherapists
