Materials

ASCA manuals, books, guides, videos, handouts and articles for survivors, group meetings and co-facilitators.

Manuals and Books

Videos

  • Video

    Memories

    In this 4-minute video, author and co-founder of ASCA Dr. Patrick Gannon answers a question about memories: “Can a person successfully move through the steps without full recollection?”

    • Author: The Morris Center
    • New 2024
    • Video
    • 4 minutes
    • 19 MB
  • Video

    Theory behind the ASCA model

    “The reality is that recovery from childhood abuse is more complicated than recovery from substance abuse.” In 3.5 minutes, co-founder of ASCA Dr. Patrick Gannon introduces the basis of the ASCA model, including psychology and the meeting structure.

    • Author: The Morris Center
    • New 2024
    • Video
    • 3.5 minutes
    • 5 MB
  • Video

    The three-stage recovery model

    In this video, co-founder of ASCA Dr. Patrick Gannon gives an overview of the unique three-stage recovery model. He goes through each of the twenty-one steps designed for “rebuilding a sense of self—a new self that’s going to function differently in the world.”

    • Author: The Morris Center
    • New 2024
    • Video
    • 32 minutes
    • 53 MB

Meeting handouts

Guides

  • Ongoing Education Reader

    (Formerly called ASCA Meeting Guidebook.) A reference for how to participate in and run ASCA meetings. Many topics for ongoing education moments are presented and addressed (2024) (pdf). Note: The reader is now part 4 of the new ASCA Training and Reference Manual (the link above takes you to the page).

    • Author: The Morris Center
    • New 2024
    • Guide
  • Resource Guide for ASCA Members Searching for a Therapist

    A helpful guide (2015)(pdf). Note: The Soul Survivors book contains another “Guide to Selecting a Psychotherapist.”

    • Author: Karen Mills, The Morris Center
    • Guide
  • Tips for Starting a Community Based ASCA Group

    An easy-to-use guide with lots of tips for starting a community-based group, written by someone who started an ASCA meeting (2024)(pdf).

    • Author: ASCA member, The Morris Center
    • Guide
  • Resources

    Additional guides for finding a therapist are available on this page.

    • Web page

Articles

  • 2018 Therapy Survey

    An overview of results from the 2018 survivor survey on therapy.

    • Author: The Morris Center
  • Basic Nervous System Anatomy: Neurobiology of Happiness

    Presentation from the The Neurobiology of Happiness Conference, providing an overview of the anatomy of the brain and how its different parts affect us emotionally (2009)(pdf).

    • Author: The Neurobiology of Happiness Conference
    • Book
  • The Neurobiology of Happiness Conference, November 8, 2009: Small Group Discussion Notes

    The Norma J. Morris Center for Healing From Child Abuse hosted a one-day conference focusing on the impact of childhood trauma to the brain. This file is a compilation of the small group discussion notes (pdf).

    • Author: The Neurobiology of Happiness Conference
  • Everyday Resources

    Contains information about finding local resources, a list of current organizations that may have something to offer for an ongoing recovery process and more (2000)(pdf).

Meeting Packages

Bundles of handouts and other files for a meeting type or starting a meeting.

Archive

  • Newsletters

    Our archived collection of past newsletters.

  • ASCA Blog

    Our archive of past blog posts—the Wordpress ASCA blog.