The NET Academy
The NET Academy, a network of fellows and affiliates, honours those who by combining science, courage, and passion have contributed to the development and dissemination of Narrative Exposure Therapy NET and its special adaptations such as KIDNET, FORNET, and NETfacts.
Many NET-workers have worked and are still actively working under the umbrella of our affiliated NGO vivo: www.vivo.org that has consequently demonstrated international leadership and expertise in fieldwork in war and crisis regions around the globe.
One set of colleagues in our ‘NET Hall of Fame’ are those who were driven by using the power of science to overcome traumatic stress and its adverse consequences via academic research. Others are those who go out to or live in countries as well as neighbourhoods of war, crisis, and violence to support survivors in need. Then of course there are wonderful teachers and trainers of NET around the world. And most importantly the countless patient and courageous non-expert counsellors who work with NET on a daily basis, listening to the stories of the victims as well as the perpetrators in order to heal them.
While NET has helped tens of thousands, it would be needed for millions. This has led to a large variety of applied NET dissemination research models, among them our community-based approach 'NETfacts', a powerful possibility to guide societal development. Together with vivo international we honour this work at NET Academy.
Compilation of NET publications
Kaiser, E., Dohrmann, K., Rockstroh, B., Elbert, T., Schauer, M. (2025) Narrative Trauma-Arbeit NAT - Selbstwirksamkeit durch Biographiearbeit
Das Praxishandbuch, Beltz Juventa, 2025
Maggie Schauer (2024) Die einfachste Psychotherapie der Welt, Wie wir die Ursache von Stress und Krankheit behandeln und den Kreislauf von Trauma und Gewalt durchbrechen, Rowohlt Polaris
Neuner, F., Catani, C., Schauer, M. (2021) Narrative Expositionstherapie NET (Bd. 82, Fortschritte der Psychotherapie). Göttingen:Hogrefe
NET Book chapters (excerpt):
Bally, K. (2023). Trauma Disorders-A Relevant Health Problem. Praxis, 112(2), 87-91.
Bichescu-Burian, D., Schwab, A. L., & Steib, M. L. (2023). Stationäre Narrative Expositionstherapie als Ultima Ratio?. Psychotherapie im Alter, 20(1), 67-82.
Breinlinger, S., Pütz, A. K., Stevens, N. R., Mier, D., Schalinski, I., & Odenwald, M. (2020). Narrative Exposure Therapy in challenging cases and conditions. MALTRATTAMENTO E ABUSO ALL’INFANZIA, 22, 37-50.
Catani, S., & Neuner, F. (2020). Kein Weg ins Jetzt. Die Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung und die Literatur der Gegenwart. In: B. Frank-Job, J. Michael. Angstsprachen: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zur kommunikativen Auseinandersetzung mit Angst, Springer VS, Wiesbaden, pp. 13-33.
Elbert, T., Schauer, M., Neuner, F. (2022). Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET): Reorganizing Memories of Traumatic Stress, Fear, and Violence. In: Schnyder, U., Cloitre, M. (eds) Evidence Based Treatments for Trauma-Related Psychological Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97802-0_12
Elbert, T., Schauer, M., Neuner, F. (2015). Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) – reorganizing memories of traumatic stress, fear and violence. In: Schnyder U, Cloitre M (eds.) Evidence Based Treatments for Trauma-Related Psychological Disorders: A Practical Guide for Clinicians. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokio: Springer, pp 229-253.
Elbert, T., Hermenau, K., Hecker, T., Weierstall, R., Schauer, M. (2012). FORNET: Behandlung von traumatisierten und nicht-traumatisierten Gewalttätern mittels Narrativer Expositionstherapie. In: J. Endrass, A. Rossegger, F. Urbaniok, B. Borchard (Hrsg.) Interventionen bei Gewalt- und Sexualstraftätern: Risk-Management, Methoden und Konzepte der forensischen Therapie. Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 255-276.
Fowler, J. A. (2019). Mental Health Interventions and Narrative Exposure Therapy for Traumatized Refugees. Dissertation, Biola University.
Gensichen, J., Schmidt, K., Schauer, M., Elbert, T. (2023). Kapitel 8: Posttraumatische Belastungsströrung (PTBS). In: J. Gensichen, M. Härter & M. Berger (Eds.). Kurzzeitbehandlungen Für Psychische Störungen in Der Hausarztpraxis. Handb. F. Die Praxis U. Die Psychosom. Grundversorgung: Für Die Hausarztpraxis Und Die Psychosomatische Grundversorgung. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Hecker, T., Hermenau, K., Crombach, A., & Elbert, T. (2015). Treating Traumatized Offenders and Veterans by Means of Narrative Exposure Therapy. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 6, 80.
Jongedijk, R., & Eiting, G. (2022). Narratieve Exposure Therapie: NET. GZ-Psychologie, 14(6), 20-24.
Jongedijk, R.A. (2022). Narratieve Exposure Therapie, pp ….. In: E. Vermetten & R.J. Kleber (eds). Handboek Posttraumatische stress stoornis. De Tijdstroom Uitgever, Utrecht.
Jongedijk, R.A. (2020). Narratieve Exposure Therapie. In: Handboek Exposure; pp 207-232. Ed. A. van Emmerik, A. Greeven. Boom Uitgevers, Amsterdam
NET during pregnancy & treating traumatic birth experiences
Davoudi, M., Pouladi Rishehri, A., & Danesh, E. (2023). The Effectiveness of Narrative Exposure Therapy on Pregnancy Concerns, Schemas Coping with Stress and Interpersonal Sensitivity in Pregnant Women with Pregnancy Anxiety. Psychology of Woman Journal, 4(2), 32-40. https://doi.org/10.61838/kman.pwj.4.2.5
Peipert, A., Ward, M. J., & Miller, M. L. (2024). Narrative Exposure Therapy for a Traumatic Birth Experience With the Non-Birthing Parent: A Single Case Study. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.
Stevens, N. R., Miller, M. L., Soibatian, C., Otwell, C., Rufa, A. K., Meyer, D. J., & Shalowitz, M. U. (2020). Exposure therapy for PTSD during pregnancy: a feasibility, acceptability, and case series study of Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET). BMC psychology, 8, 1-18.
Volpe, E. M., Quinn, C. R., Resch, K., Sommers, M. S., Wieling, E., & Cerulli, C. (2017). Narrative Exposure Therapy: A Proposed Model to Address Intimate Partner Violence-Related PTSD in Parenting and Pregnant Adolescents. Family & community health. 40(3), 258-277.
Volpe, E. M., Quinn, C. R., Resch, K., Douglas, V., & Cerulli, C. (2016). Assessing the Feasibility and Acceptability of Narrative Exposure Therapy to Address IPV-related Mental Health in Parenting and Pregnant Adolescents. Journal of Family Violence, 1-14.
Advocacy & Press
In Narrative Exposure Therapy NET we acknowledge that psychotrauma can only be healed by two components: treatment of the psychological wound and acknowledment of the human rights abuse that has taken place. This is why members of NET Institute are active in various advocacy forums.
Expert witnessing and guidance
Expert Panel on “Revealing the Child Faces of Modern Slavery”, 2 December 2016 - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (PDF file for download)
The Trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo at the International Criminal Court (Video, youtube)
Newspaper articles
Forced to fight - children suffer all their lives - DW
https://www.dw.com/en/forced-to-fight-children-suffer-all-their-lives/a-16590697
Online article on NET
A beautifully written article by Swiss-Italian researcher, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist Giuliano Castigliego on his recent experience and learnings during an online NET Workshop at NET Institute.
Affiliations
Cultural Adaptations of NET / NETfacts
The Skuggteatern, a theater in Umeå in Sweden presented "Barrikad".
This performance deals with young women's experiences of violence and is based on NET therapy conversations.