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.

Contains all the materials needed to work the ASCA program on your own or with your therapist.

Contains information to start and run an ASCA support group meeting.

Note: The files organized here, which are also listed above, can be downloaded individually or as one Zip file (2.99 MB).

Manuals
Meeting Handouts
Signs

These specific files are for online (virtual) meetings, which offer the ability for people in remote areas to participate in ASCA meetings and a way to supplement ASCA in-person meetings.

Note: The files can be downloaded individually or as one Zip file (2.56 MB).

All of the materials for starting and facilitating Rotational meetings are in this package.

Note: The files can be downloaded individually or as one Zip file (2.04 MB).

Manuals
Info, Handouts, Scripts

All of the materials for starting and facilitating Step-work meetings are in this package.

Note: The files can be downloaded individually or as one Zip file (1.22 MB).

Manual
Info, Handouts, Scripts

Los materiales para iniciar y facilitar las reuniones en persona en Español se encuentran en este paquete.

Nota: Las fichas se pueden descargar individualmente o como una ficha Zip (2.38 MB).

Manual
Información, folletos, scriptos

Archive

  • Newsletters

    Our archived collection of past newsletters.

  • ASCA Blog

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