Lori S. Katz - Warrior Renew: Healing from Military Sexual Trauma

Lori S. Katz, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who has worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs for over 20 years specializing in the treatment of military sexual trauma. She was the founder/director of a womens mental health center and developed a sexual trauma treatment program that included supportive housing for homeless women veterans. She has been recognized as a subject matter expert and as such she worked on a Department of Defense task force to develop new policies for the care of victims of sexual assault. Her work has been the topic of local, national, and international news reports. She is a researcher, clinician, and public speaker on the topic of military sexual trauma.

Lori S. Katz, PhD

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Katz, Lori S., 1963

Warrior renew : healing from military sexual trauma / Lori S. Katz, PhD.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8261-2231-5 ISBN 978-0-8261-2232-2 (e-book)

1. Sexual abuse victimsRehabilitation. 2. Psychic traumaTreatment. 3. Sexual harassment in the military. 4. Women soldiersMental health. 5. Women soldiersCrime against. 6. Self-help techniques. I. Title.

RC560.S44K38 2014

616.858369008697dc23

2014020373

A Facilitators Guide for Warrior Renew is available for group leaders and facilitators. Please visit www.WarriorRenew.com for more information.

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This workbook is dedicated to all of the courageous men and women who have incurred the wounds of sexual trauma while serving in the U.S. military: Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, National Guard, and Reserves. It is an honor to serve you.

Lt. Col. Patricia Jackson-Kelley

It is a privilege to write the Foreword for this first-ever workbook to assist men and women who have been victimized by military sexual trauma (MST). To give a brief history, I met Dr. Lori S. Katz in 1993 during my employment at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), West Los Angeles, California. The VA Long Beach and the VA West Los Angeles women veterans programs worked together to establish a one-stop shop for our women veterans combining primary care, gynecology, and mental health in one womens health clinic. These sites had two of the first funded full-time Women Veteran Program Managers, myself and Diane Guilano, RN (Long Beach), which allowed us the flexibility to coordinate our efforts. Dr. Katz was instrumental in guiding us through some very difficult treatment plans for our patients identified as having MST. Several of the women verbalized their feeling of safety once they entered treatment with Dr. Katz. She also provided us with educational classes that allowed us to more effectively treat our MST patients.

Knowing the results of Dr. Katzs work and the many lives that she has changed, I am delighted to endorse Dr. Katzs Warrior Renew workbook for men and women seeking healing from MST. Although the high prevalence rates of MST are discouraging, I am confident that Warrior Renew can reach many, many MST survivors and provide the hope and healing that they need, for all of those across the country and throughout the military.

Lt. Col. Patricia Jackson-Kelley
Veteran of the U.S. Air Force and Air Force, Army, and Navy Reserves,
Los Angeles County Military and Veterans Affairs Commissioner
Former Women Veteran Program Manager,
Department of Veterans Affairs, Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Warrior Renew is based on a treatment approach that the author has been developing for many years while treating those with military sexual trauma (MST). It is a combination of the best lessons and most effective exercisesrefined, revised, and testedand then packaged into a systematic and comprehensive approach for healing MST. This manual can also be used for those who have experienced childhood and/or adult sexual trauma and abuse. It is not limited for use with any particular diagnosis such as posttraumatic stress disorder or depression, but rather addresses common symptoms and reactions to sexual trauma across diagnoses.

There are several values underlying the Warrior Renew program. First of all, it is assumed that everyone makes sense. There is a good reason why people respond to trauma the way they do. This insight and connection to understanding the past can be a great relief in itself, but can also assist in releasing old patterns and building new, more positive ones. Second, healing is a process of resolving the past by rethinking or reprocessing it in the presentit is a process achieved by toggling among thinking, feeling, and moving.