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Bloom, S. L. (submitted) Creating Sanctuary: An Organizational Approach to Services for Traumatized Children. Child and Adolescent Trauma.

Bloom, S. L. (submitted) The Sanctuary Model: A Trauma-Informed Organizational Approach to Services for Traumatized Children and Youth. In Steele, W. and Malchiodi, C. (Eds.) Trauma-Informed Practice for Children and Adolescents. New York: Routledge

Bloom, S. L. (in press) Bridging the Black Hole of Trauma: The Evolutionary Significance of the Arts, Part 2

Bloom, S. L. and Farragher, B. (2010). Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Service Delivery Systems. New York. Oxford University Press.

Bloom, S. L. (2010) Bridging the Black Hole Of Trauma: The Evolutionary Significance of the Arts. Psychotherapy and Politics International 8(3): pp.

Bloom, S. L.(2010) Trauma-organized systems and parallel process. In N. Tehrani (Ed). Managing Trauma in the Workplace – Supporting Workers and the Organisation. London: Routledge (pp. 139-153).

Bloom, S. L. (2010). Sanctuary: An Operating System for Living Organizations. In N. Tehrani (Ed) Managing Trauma in the Workplace – Supporting Workers and the Organisation. London: Routledge (pp. 235-251).

Bloom, S. L. (2010). Organizational Stress as a Barrier to Trauma-Informed Service Delivery. Becker, M. and Levin, B. A Public Health Perspective of Women’s Mental Health, New York: Springer (pp.295-311).

Bloom, S. L. (2010). The Mental Health Aspects of IPV: Survivors, Professionals and Systems. In Giardino AP, Giardino ER (Eds). Intimate Partner Violence, Domestic Violence, and Spousal Abuse: A Resource for Professionals Working With Children and Families. St. Louis, MO: STM Learning (pp.207-250).

Rich, J.A., Corbin, T., Bloom, S. L., Rich, L., Evans, S., Wilson, A. (2009) Healing the Hurt: Trauma-Informed Approaches to the Health of Boys and Young Men of Color. Los Angeles: California Endowment.

Bloom, S. L. (2009) An Elephant In The Room: The Impact Of Traumatic Stress On Individuals and Groups. In Brown, K. and Bergo, B. (eds) The Trauma Controversy: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogues. Albany: SUNY, 2009 (pp.143-169).

Bloom, S. L. (2009) Domestic Violence. In O’Brien, J. (Ed) Encyclopedia of Gender and Violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications (pp.216-221).

Bloom, S. L. and Sreedhar, S. Y. (2008) The Sanctuary Model of Trauma-Informed Organizational Change. Reclaiming Children and Youth: From Trauma to Trust, 17(3): 48-53.

Bloom, S. L. (2007).The Sanctuary Model of Trauma-Informed Organizational Change. The Source 16(1): 12-14, 16. The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center.

Bloom, S. L. (2007).Organizational Stress As A Barrier to Trauma-Informed Change and System Transformation. White Paper for the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, Office of Technical Assistance http://www.nasmhpd.org/publicationsOTA.cfm

Bloom, S. L. (2007) Book Review: Loss, Trauma and Resilience – Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss by Pauline Boss. Psychiatric Services, 58(3): 419-420

Bloom, S. L. (2007) Book Review: Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives by Laurence J. Kirmayer, et al. for Psychiatric Services

Bloom, S. L. (2007) Book Review: The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma. A. Rogers. For Psychiatric Services

Bloom, S. L. (2007). Loss in human service organizations. Loss, Hurt and Hope: The Complex Issues of Bereavement and Trauma in Children. A. L. Vargas and S. L. Bloom. Newcastle, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 142-206.

Bloom, S. L. and Vargas, L. Eds, (2007) Loss, Hurt and Hope: The Complex Issues of Bereavement, Trauma and Children. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Bloom, S. L. (2007). Beyond the Beveled Mirror: Mourning and Recovery from Childhood Maltreatment. Loss, Hurt and Hope: The Complex Issues of Bereavement and Trauma in Children. A. L. Vargas and S. L. Bloom. Newcastle, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 4-49.

Bloom, S. L. (2006)Trauma-Informed Systems Transformation: Recovery as a Public Health Concern. Report for the Trauma Task Force, Philadelphia, PA

Bloom, S. L. (2006) Human Service Systems and Organizational Stress: Thinking & Feeling Our Way Out of Existing Organizational Dilemmas. Report for the Trauma Task Force, Philadelphia, PA

Bloom, S. L. (2006) Neither liberty nor safety: The impact of trauma on individuals, institutions, and societies. Part IV. Psychotherapy and Politics International4(1): 4-23.

Bloom, S. L. (2006) Societal Trauma: Danger and Democracy. Editor, Nick Totten. Politics and Psychotherapy. London: Open University Press

Bloom, S. L., Foderaro, J.F., Ryan, R. A. (2006) S.E.L.F.: A Trauma-Informed Psychoeducational Group Curriculum,

Bloom, S. L. (2006). Children and Domestic Violence. ISF Newsletter, Winter, p.8-9.

Bloom, S. L. (2005) Introduction to Special Section. Creating Sanctuary for Kids: Helping Children to Heal From Violence. Therapeutic Community: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations 26(1): 57-63

Bloom, S. L. (2005) The Sanctuary Model of Organizational Change for Children’s Residential Treatment. Therapeutic Community: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations 26(1): 65-81

Bloom, S. L. (2005) Neither liberty nor safety: The impact of trauma on individuals, institutions, and societies. Part III. Psychotherapy and Politics International3(2): 96-111

Bloom, S. L. (2005) The system bites back: Politics, parallel process and the notion of change Therapeutic Community: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations 26(4, Silver Jubilee Issue): 337-354.

Bloom, S. L. (2005) Give Sorrow Words: Emotional Disclosure and Physical Health. ISF News. Institute for Safe Families Newsletter, p.2-3, Winter

Bloom, S. L. and Norton, K. (Eds) (2004) Special Section on The Therapeutic Community in the 21st Century. Psychiatric Quarterly 75 (3): 229-231

Norton, K. and Bloom, S. L. (2004) The Art And Challenges Of Long-Term And Short-Term Democratic Therapeutic Communities. In Special Section on the Therapeutic Community in the 21st Century. Psychiatric Quarterly 75(3): 249-261

Rivard, J.C., Bloom, S. L., McCorkle, D. and Abramovitz, R. (2005) Preliminary results of a study examining the implementation and effects of trauma recovery framework for youths in residential treatment. Therapeutic Community: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations 26(1): 83-96

Rivard, J.C., McCorkle, D., Duncan, M.E., Pasquale, L.E., Bloom, S. L., Abramovitz, R. (2004). Implementing a Trauma Recovery Framework for Youths in Residential Treatment. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 21(5): 529-550.

Bloom, S. L. (2004) Neither liberty nor safety: The impact of trauma on individuals, institutions, and societies. Part I. Psychotherapy and Politics International2(2): 78-98.

Bloom, S. L. (2004) Neither liberty nor safety: The impact of trauma on individuals, institutions, and societies. Part II. Psychotherapy and Politics International2(3): 212-228.

Bloom, S. L. (2004) The Importance of dissent: A meditation on the dangers of danger. ISF News, Institute for Safe Families Newsletter, p.10-11, Spring

Bloom, S. L. (2003) Caring for the Caregiver: Avoiding and Treating Vicarious Traumatization. In A. Giardino, E. Datner and J. Asher (Eds.), Sexual Assault: Victimization Across the Lifespan. Maryland Heights, MO: GW Medical Publishing. (pp. 459-470)

Bloom, S. L. (2003) Understanding the impact of sexual assault: The nature of traumatic experience. In A. Giardino, E. Datner and J. Asher (Eds.), Sexual Assault: Victimization Across the Lifespan. Maryland Heights, MO: GW Medical Publishing. (pp. 405-432).

Abramovitz, R. and Bloom, S. L. (2003). Creating sanctuary in a residential treatment center for troubled children and adolescents. Psychiatric Quarterly 74(2): 119-135

Bloom, S. L. (2003) The Sanctuary Model; A Trauma-Informed Systems Approach to the Residential Treatment of Children. Child Welfare League of America.Residential Group Care Quarterly 4(2); 1, 4-5

Rivard, J.C., Bloom, S. L., Abramovitz, R., Pasquale, L.E., Duncan, M., McCorkle, D., Gelman, A. (2003). Assessing the Implementation and Effects of a Trauma-focused Intervention for Youths in Residential Treatment Psychiatric Quarterly 74(2): 137-154.

Bloom, S. L., Bennington-Davis, M., Farragher, B., McCorkle, D., Nice-Martini, K., & Wellbank, K. (2003). Multiple opportunities for creating sanctuary. Psychiatric Quarterly, 74(2), 173-190.

Panzer, P. G. and Bloom, S. L. (2003). Introduction to Special Section on Sanctuary Principles and Practice in Clinical Settings Psychiatric Quarterly, 74(2): 115-117.

Bloom, S. L. Beyond the beveled mirror: Mourning and recovery from childhood maltreatment. (2002). In J. Kauffman (Ed), Loss of the Assumptive World. New York: Brunner-Routledge.

Bloom, S. L. (2002) Creating Sanctuary. Special Edition of Networks, Newsletter of the National Technical Assistance Center for State Mental Health Planning on “Eliminating the Use of Seclusion and Restraint”, Summer/Fall.

Bloom, S. L. (2002). The PVS Disaster: Poverty, Violence and Substance Abuse in the Lives of Women and Children in “Responding to the Needs of Pregnant and Parenting Women with Substance Use Disorders in Philadelphia”. A Report to Community Behavioral Health by the Working Group on Chemically Dependent Women.

Bloom, S. L. (2002) In the Shadow of the World Trade Center Disaster: From Trauma to Recovery. ISF Newsletter, 2002

Bloom, S. L. and Stellermann, K.(2001) Creating Sanctuary: Practicing Nonviolence in a Psychiatric Setting. Zeitschrift fur Politische Psychologie, Jg 8, 2000, Nr 4, und Jg 9, Nr1, S. 601-610.

Bloom, S. L., Ed. (2001) Violence: A Public Health Epidemic and a Public Health Approach. London: Karnac Press.

Bloom, S. L. (2001) In the Aftermath of September 11, Newsletter, The Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia, Fall, 2001.

Bloom, S. L. and Barger, B. K. (2001) An Appeal to Reason. Family Violence and Sexual Assault Bulletin, 17(3): 15, Fall, 2001.

Bloom, S. L (2001) Commentary: Reflections on the Desire for Revenge. Journal of Emotional Abuse 2(4): 61-94.

Bloom, S. L. (2000). Double Trouble: The Perils of Substance Abuse and PTSD. Email From America. Psychotherapy Review 2(7), July

Bloom, S. L. Editor (2000), Special Edition, The Sanctuary Model, Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations. Summer.

Bloom, SL (2000). Creating Sanctuary: Healing from systematic abuses of power. Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations 21(2): 67-91.

Bills, L.J. & Bloom, S.L. (2000). Trying out Sanctuary the hard way. Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations 21(2):119-134.

Bloom, S. L. (2000) Sexual Violence: The Victim (2000). In C. E. Bell, (Ed.) Psychiatric Perspectives of Violence: Issues in Prevention and Treatment: New Directions for Mental Health Services #86. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Bloom, S. L. (2000) The Complex Web of Causation: Motor Vehicle Accidents, Comorbidity and PTSD. In E. J. Hickling and E. B. Blanchard (Eds). International Handbook of Road Traffic Accidents and Psychological Trauma: Theory, Treatment and Law. Oxford, England: Elsevier Press.

Bloom, S. L. (2000) Our Hearts and Our Hopes are Turned to Peace: Origins of the ISTSS. (2000). In A. Shalev, R. Yehuda, & A S. McFarlane (Eds.). International Handbook of Human Response Trauma. New York: Plenum

Bloom, S. L. (2000) Facts About PTSD: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment. People First 9(3), Summer. Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania

Courtois, C. and Bloom, S. L. (2000) Inpatient Guidelines for the Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. C. Courtois & S.L. Bloom. (2000). In Effective Treatments for PTSD: Practice Guidelines from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Edited by EB. Foa, TM. Keane, and MJ. Friedman. New York: Guilford

Kluft, R. P., Kinzie, D. and Bloom, S. L. (2000) Treating Traumatized Patients and Victims of Violence (2000), with R. P. Kluft and D. Kinzie. In C. E. Bell, (Ed.) Psychiatric Perspectives of Violence: Issues in Prevention and Treatment: New Directions for Mental Health Services #86. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Bloom, S. L. (2000). From Boys to Men. E-mail From America, The Psychotherapy Review, 2(1): 13-14.

Bloom, S. L. (2000). When Victims Turn Into Bullies. E-mail From America, The Psychotherapy Review, 2(2): 59-60.

Bloom, S. L. (2000). Chronic Undifferentiated Hate. E-mail From America. The Psychotherapy Review, 2(3): 108-110.

Bloom, S. L. (2000). The Right to Bear Arms. E-mail From America. The Psychotherapy Review, 2(4): 156-158.

Bloom, S. L. (2000). The Neglect of Neglect, Part I. E-mail From America. The Psychotherapy Review, 2(5): 208-210.

Bloom, S. L. (2000). The Neglect of Neglect, Part II. E-mail From America. The Psychotherapy Review, 2(6): 257-259

Bloom, S. L. (2000). Double Trouble: The Perils of Substance Abuse and PTSD. Email From America. Psychotherapy Review 2(7), July

Bloom, S. L. (2000). Chaos, Complexity, Self-Organization And Us. Email From America Psychotherapy Review 2(8), August

Bloom, S. L. (2000).The Grief That Dare Not Speak Its Name Part I: Dealing with the Ravages of Childhood Abuse. Psychotherapy Review 2(9), September

Bloom, S. L. (2000).The Grief That Dare Not Speak Its Name Part II: Dealing with the Ravages of Childhood Abuse. Psychotherapy Review 2(10), October

Bloom, S. L. (2000). The Grief That Dare Not Speak Its Name Part III: Dealing with the Ravages of Childhood Abuse. Psychotherapy Review 2(11), November

Bloom, S. L. (2000) Final Action Plan: A Coordinated Community Response to Family Violence. . People First 9(3), Summer 2000. Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Bloom, S. L. (1999) Trauma Theory Abbreviated. Final Action Plan: A Coordinated Community-Based Response to Family Violence. Attorney General Mike Fisher’s Task Force on Family Violence

Bloom, S. L., Ed. (1999) Final Action Plan: A Coordinated Community-Based Response to Family Violence. Attorney General Mike Fisher’s Task Force on Family Violence

Bloom, S. L., Ed. (1999) Editor, Health Care Working Group Report on Family Violence. Attorney General Mike Fisher’s Task Force on Family Violence, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Bloom, S. L., Ed. (1999) Schools and Early Childhood Development Working Group Report on Family Violence. Attorney General Mike Fisher’s Task Force on Family Violence, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Bloom, S. L., Ed. (1999) Neighborhood Groups Working Group Report on Family Violence. Attorney General Mike Fisher’s Task Force on Family Violence, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Bloom, S. L., Ed. (1999) Law Enforcement and the Judiciary Working Group Report on Family Violence. Attorney General Mike Fisher’s Task Force on Family Violence, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Bloom, S. L., Ed. (1999) Religious Institutions Working Group Report on Family Violence. Attorney General Mike Fisher’s Task Force on Family Violence, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Bloom, S. L., Ed. (1999) Employers Working Group Report on Family Violence. Attorney General Mike Fisher’s Task Force on Family Violence, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, October 1999

Bloom, S. L., Ed. (1999) Final Action Plan: A Coordinated Community-Based Response to Family Violence. Attorney General Mike Fisher’s Task Force on Family Violence, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, October 1999.

Bloom, S. L. (1999). Health Care Needs RADAR, Training Resource Education Exchange, Newsletter of the Behavioral Health Training and Education Network, Volume 1, Issue 3, December 15, 1999.

Bloom, S. L. (1999). Those Delicate Brains and Troubled Minds. E-Mail From America. The Psychotherapy Review 1(1): 8-9

Bloom, S. L. (1999). Emotional Anesthesia: The Double Bind for Doctors. E-Mail From America. The Psychotherapy Review 1(2): 63-63

Bloom, S. L. (1999). There’s Nothing New About Trauma. E-Mail From America. The Psychotherapy Review 1(3): 106-107

Bloom, S. L. (1999). So What About Us? E-Mail From America. The Psychotherapy Review 1(4): 8-164-165

Bloom, S. L. (1999). Victims and the Media: Addressing the Problems. E-Mail From America. The Psychotherapy Review 1(5): 211-212.

Bloom, S. L. (1999).Restorative vs. Retributive Justice. E-Mail From America, The Psychotherapy Review 1(6): 259-260.

Bloom, S. L. (1999). Give Sorrow Words: Emotional Disclosure and Physical Health. E-mail From America, The Psychotherapy Review 1(7): 312-313

Bloom, S. L. (1999) Book Review: Recollections of Sexual Abuse: Treatment Principles and Guidelines by Christine Courtois. Psychiatric Times June, 1999, p,35

Bloom, S. L. Section Editor, (1998), Section V, Application of the Current Scientific Knowledge Base to Forensic Practice. Childhood Trauma Remembered: A Report on the Current Scientific Knowledge Base and Its Applications. The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Northbrook, IL. 1998.

Bloom, S. L. (1998). By The Crowd They Have Been Broken, By the Crowd They Shall Be Healed: The Social Transformation of Trauma. In R. Tedeschi, C. Park, and L. Calhoun. Post-Traumatic Growth: Theory and Research on Change in the Aftermath of Crises. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Bloom, S. L. and Reichert, M. (1998) Bearing Witness: Trauma and Collective Responsibility. (1998). Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.

Bills, L.J. and Bloom, S. L. (1998) From Chaos to Sanctuary: Trauma-Based Treatment for Women in a State Hospital Systems. Coauthored with L. J. Bills. 1998. In Women’s Health Services: A Public Health Perspective. Editors: Bruce Labotsky Levin, Andrea K. Blanch, and Ann Jennings. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Bloom, S. L. (1997) Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies. (1997). New York: Routledge.

Bloom, S. L. (1997). False Memory Syndrome: Science or Misogyny? New For Women in Psychiatry, 15(1): 14-15.

Bloom, S. L. (1996) Introduction and Postscript to “Dissociation and the Fragmentary Nature of Traumatic Memories”. British Journal of Psychotherapy 12(3): 350-351; 362-365.

Bloom, S. L. (1996). Every Time History Repeats Itself the Price Goes Up: The Social Reenactment of Trauma. Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity 3(3): 161-194.

Bloom, S. L. (1996). Taking Trauma Theory to the Streets, Stresspoints: The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, 10 (3): 1, 12.

Bloom, S. L. (1995). Creating Sanctuary in the Classroom. Journal for a Just and Caring Education, 1(4):403-433.

Bloom, S. L. (1995). When Good People Do Bad Things: Meditations on the Backlash. Journal of Psychohistory, 22 (2): 273-304.

Bloom, S. L. (1995) The Germ Theory Of Trauma: The Impossibility of Ethical Neutrality. (1995) B.H. Stamm, (Ed). Secondary Traumatic Stress: Self Care Issues for Clinicians, Researchers and Educators. Sidran Foundation. (pp: 257-276).