STAIR is a program that provides trauma survivors with emotional and social skills they either do not have due to early life trauma or maltreatment, or which have diminished due to severe, prolonged or repeated traumas experienced later in life.
The eight treatment sessions of STAIR have been explicitly developed to generate and strengthen social and emotional resources for effective living. In the video on the following page, Marylene Cloitre, the originator of STAIR, explains the value and benefits of STAIR.
Marylene Cloitre is the Associate Director of Research at the Dissemination and Training Division of the National Center for PTSD. Together with Lisa R. Cohen, PhD, and Karestan C. Koenen, PhD, she wrote the book Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse: Psychotherapy for the Interrupted Life, on which the content for the National Center for PTSD's STAIR course is based.
