THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTION STRATEGY (3-DPIS) MODEL TO TRANSFORM AND EMPOWER COMMUNITIES AND INSTITUTIONS TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF TRAUMA AND VIOLENCE

Pervasive, unrelenting violence threatens the safety and security of women and children, present day survival and collective future of the people in various communities  in United States, Nigeria, other African nations; Canada, South America, United Kingdom, other nations in Europe, Asia and Oceania, indeed, worldwide. This global crisis has become one of the most serious issues compelling the increasing attention of governments, at all levels, scholars in traumatic stress studies, psychology, psychiatry, modern medicine, human development, military and police administrators. Countries and communities are being destroyed by violence. Images and accounts of violence pervade the media; it is on the streets, homes, schools, workplaces and institutions. It has become an emergency, a public health epidemic and universal scourge that tears at the fabric of society.

Despite a proliferation of research and a large, growing evidence base   to arrest the crises, there are gaps in knowledge, policies and institutional capacities, due to judgment/action gaps resulting from neglect of the psychological dimension, as a priority in the agenda for women, children and youth development, education, health, social and criminal justice. It is within these gaps that diverse populations of psychologically traumatized, disoriented, destabilized and disillusioned populations are produced, while violence and human rights violations thrive.

In a world desperate to comprehend, address and arrest the seemingly ever-enlarging explosion of violence and its psychological aftermath, the Three-Dimensional Psychological Intervention Strategy (3-DPIS) Model has been developed by Dr. Chioma I. Igboegwu to explain the underlying factors that perpetuate violence and trauma in society, using a simple equation of the 3-DPIS theory. The 3-DPIS Model also provides a cutting-edge, holistic intervention to break the vicious cycle of violence and trauma in the society (Igboegwu, 2020). The 3-DPIS is aimed to mobilize communities, national, regional and international cooperation and collaboration to work together and bridge the judgment/action gaps in women, children and youth development, education, health, social and criminal justice, which perpetuate violence and trauma, in order to transform and empower communities and institutions to break the vicious cycle for peace to reign in our hitherto troubled world