Rooting Out Violence

Life and death are merged in the terror of unrelenting global violence. Rooting Out Violence describes a model, ‘Healthy Sensory-Emotional Integration,’ with the scope to help adults assess the human capacity for violence in themselves, in members of their communities, as well as, in leaders of their countries. The book provides a violence prevention model to mitigate trauma and human rights violations throughout our lifespans and throughout the world. Healthy Sensory-Emotional Integration is a public health model that is understandable and achievable globally.

The manuscript identifies how blind-sighted we have been historically by not emphasizing the number one variable in the capacity to commit a violent crime; for funding violence prevention in institutional siloes, such as, corrections and child protection programs, when the inner nature of each of us counts; and excluding comprehensive research on preventing trauma, not just funding treatment strategies.

Joycee Kennedy LCSW is a diplomate in clinical social work and a diplomate with the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. For 17 years she has been a trauma specialist and clinical supervisor with The Empowerment Program, Inc., in Denver. Before Empowerment, Joycee worked in community mental health for 25 years—mostly with children and families in Colorado.Joycee earned a BA degree from the University of Connecticut in 1973, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her MSW from the University of Denver in 1978. Joycee has contributed to multiple books, journals, a video, and has co-authored a book.