Suzanne Connolly and Caroline Sakai will be leaving for Rwanda April 27 and will be there for 3-4 weeks.  They are planning to do a randomized controlled study with about 200 genocide survivors.  The TFT treatments will be provided by Rwandan pastors, teachers, and community leaders who will be trained at the algorithm level.  Participants will be assessed with the Modified PTSD Symptom Scale and the Traumatic Symptom Inventory, which have been translated into Kinyarwanda.  They will be randomized into a TFT treatment group, and a wait list control group.  Suzanne and Caroline will supervise the treatments and assist if needed.

Both groups will have another assessment with both instruments a week after the treatment group has their TFT treatment for traumas.  For the control group this will be a second baseline assessment.  The control group will subsequently have the TFT treatment followed a week later by a post-test. The ATFT Foundation has hired an independent researcher from Arizona State University who specializes in trauma research to  design, supervise, run the statistics for and prepare the research study for publication in a major professional journal.  Thanks to all who have contributed to making this research mission possible!

 

They will also do other training, including an abbreviated Diagnostic CT-TFT training of pastors, teachers, and community leaders who have completed the algorithm training.  They are planning also to introduce TFT at another orphanage, as well as stop by El Shaddai, the orphanage we were at in the previous two years.  They will also be sharing TFT with other agencies in Rwanda.