The trauma track, also based at Grady Health System, consists of a year-long experience working in major rotations on the Nia Project and in the Emory Needlestick Prevention Center. Each year there is one intern on the trauma track. The Nia Project offers comprehensive biopsychosocial services to low-income African American women with histories of abuse and suicidality. An associated project is Grady CAMP, which serves African American male and female persons who have attempted suicide.
On the Nia Project, interns gain experience on an interdisciplinary team providing crisis risk evaluations, case management services, assessments and trauma-focused individual, group and couples/family therapy. Interns also engage in community outreach efforts, participate in clinical research activities and supervise junior clinical team members The individual and couple/family therapy efforts are guided by a culturally-informed integrative theoretical model incorporating interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, third wave cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness, existential/humanistic, attachment-oriented and systemic-based perspectives. Group therapy opportunities are diverse and include co-facilitating support groups (e.g., suicide, intimate partner violence, spirituality, survivors of suicide), evidence-based therapy groups (e.g., Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion-Based Meditation, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Seeking Safety, Skills Training for Affect Regulation) and process groups (e.g., interpersonal). Clinical research activities include data collection, manuscript preparation, giving presentations and grant writing.