Clinical Pastoral Education

Trauma is defined as having a deeply distressing or disturbing experience, or having a physical injury.

The concept of this EBP change project is compassion fatigue as it relates to nurses working in an emergency department (ED) dealing with secondary trauma causing symptoms of compassion fatigue (CF). Compassion is defined as the empathetic awareness of another’s distress, united with a desire to alleviate it (Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, n.d.). Fatigue is the physical or mental depletion that can be the result of strain, overwork, or disease (The Free Medical Dictionary,

The term “Psychological trauma” refers to damage wrought from a traumatic event, which that damages one’s ability to cope with stressors. “Trauma” is commonly defined as an exposure to a situation in which a person is confronted with an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to self or others’ physical well-being (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Specific types of client trauma frequently encountered by which therapists and other mental health workers frequently encounter in a clinical setting include sexual abuse, physical , or sexual assault, natural disasters such as earthquakes or tsunamis, domestic violence, and school or/and work related violence (James & Gilliland, 2001). Traumatic

When choosing to pursue a career in the health care field, most enter the workplace with the desire to help and provide care for patients who are critically ill (Lombardo & Eyre, 2011). Far too often, these health professionals who were once sympathetic and caring become victims of compassion fatigue (Lombardo & Eyre, 2011). As a working health professional it is ones duty to compassionately care for the sick, wounded and traumatized patients, which involves being exposed daily to the patient’s pain, suffering and trauma (Coetzee & Klopper, 2010). Experiencing this type of trauma first hand is an un-recognized side effect of being a health care professional (Briscoe, 2014). It is easy to get wrapped up in patients, their

Imagine the following scenario: A 43 year old male and his 41 year old wife have just finished celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary at a local restaurant. The husband had a cocktail at the bar while waiting for the table, and then had a couple of glasses of wine with dinner. After dinner, the happy couple drive their vehicle home on a snow covered highway. The car begins to swerve on the ice and enters oncoming traffic and hits a semi cab head-on. After an extended extraction of the driver by paramedics, the driver is found to be unconscious, has multiple head lacerations, chest contusions from the steering wheel, and his left leg is bleeding profusely from a compound femur fracture. The female is conscious, in shock, and states that she is 36 weeks pregnant and has pain in her abdomen. Both victims are flown via helicopter to the nearest level 2 trauma center where 2 teams of emergency room doctors, trauma surgeons, respiratory therapists, x-ray technologists, phlebotomists, chaplains, social workers, and of course, trauma nurses, are waiting to assess the patients and provide life-saving care. This scenario is not the exception in a level 2 trauma care center of the emergency-room, it is the average situation that a trauma nurse will find his or herself in every day. Because of the fast paced situations that require split-second critical decisions, the advanced life support training that is required, and the often unrewarded care, a career in trauma

Trauma occurs when a child has experienced an event that threatens or causes harm to her emotional and physical well-being. Events can include war, terrorism, natural disasters, but the most common and harmful to a child’s psychosocial well-being are those such as domestic violence, neglect, physical and sexual abuse, maltreatment, and witnessing a traumatic event. While some children may experience a traumatic event and go on to develop normally, many children have long lasting implications into adulthood.

Working in a trauma center provides me with countless opportunities to allow others to see Christ’s love through my words, actions and decisions to share any of the fruits of the spirit. A typical day can place me at the bedside of the delivery of a newborn, a patient with a toothache, a suicidal overdose patient, motor vehicle accidents, or gang shootings. I have seen countless, critical life-threatening situations requiring instant decisions.

Trauma is defined as “A deeply distressing or disturbing experience.” [2] Trauma and eating disorder relate to one another, according to Monarch Cove, “Eating disorder links to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) this can affect someone’s life negatively on the daily basis.”

What stands out to me is that, although this article focused on the challenges that trauma responders face while assisting those in need, the author identified ways to assist members of the team with methods to coupe with issues that may arise due to different personalities, fatigue, professional boundaries, and cultural diversities (Mendenhall, 2006). It is important to maintain good health in order to accomplish the mission of caring for disaster survives. Victim Advocates in the Army are always reminded that self-care is key to successful advocacy; vicarious trauma degrades and disrupts victim care. Combating egotistical battles between professionals in order to focus on the needs of the survivors in order to ease suffering and encourage growth (Mendenhall, 2006). Regardless of the pressures and problems they face, trauma teams devised ways to combat most of the issues that they may face during the task of assisting others. The bible tells us that we should put the needs of others before our own, in Philippians 2:1-3, “If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

Its termed as an emotional aftermath because of major events such as war, rape, kidnapping, abuse or surviving a natural calamity that an individual directly experienced. Traumatic reactions are usually normal but in some instances, it can be severe whereby the individual experiences flashbacks, memory lapse, headaches or nausea (Levers, 2012). Medical professionals term

In previous sections, the report described trauma, trauma-specific services, and trauma symptoms on a broad basis. Additionally, it's important to explicate what a trauma-informed organization (TIO) looks like. At their core, TIOs demonstrate a commitment to having every facet of their organization, including all personnel, executing services through a trauma-informed lens. In TIOs, all staff have a basic knowledge about trauma and its complexities, broadly understand how trauma makes their clients vulnerable, how to provide services that avoid retraumatization, and deliver services that facilitate client participation.1 Trauma-informed organizations typically share five key characteristics: cultural competency, client-centric services and

Straussner and Calanan (2014) remind us that in spite of developing research that is offering up a solid base of systematic information surrounding hopeful interventions, there is still a lot to be gleaned about successful interventions with traumatized children and adults—to make sure that we do not make the situation worse. Straussner and Calanan (2014) finally caution that because of the danger of encountering secondary trauma, social workers should be cognizant of the peril of laboring over large caseloads of traumatized persons and be taught to take care of themselves so that they do not turn into part of the overall issue, but are a successful part of the

When I decided to take the trauma course, I was hesitant at first to take it. I did not know what to expect nor felt I would be prepare listen to stories about traumatic occurrences, despite of the number of years I have worked in the field of community mental health. Therefore, now that we are in week eight, I am delighted to have taken this course. The impression I had at first, has changed my insight concerning what is trauma, as for many years, I did not understand why a person in many instances, could not process their trauma. In a quote by Chang stated, “The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening; the smaller the doubt, the smaller the awakening. No doubt, no awakening” (Van Der Kolk, 2014, p. 22). The goes in congruence with my understanding on trauma and how it has changed during this course. As a result, I feel I am awakening when acquiring more about trauma.

Psycho-social trauma: Psycho-social trauma is defined as an injury caused by a lengthy lived experience of political violence. In other words, it is how a social factor such as political violence has affected your individual thought and behavior. An example of psycho-social

My theological of pastoral care and pastoral counseling I will view all the human being as it was written in the beginning with Genesis 1:27: "And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them." As I know the creation of human being, therefore, my pastoral care and pastoral counseling will also views all human being as spiritual and bodily creatures created by God. As a result, my priority in pastoral care and pastoral counseling is that I was called into relationship with God and with one another. the same way my counseling session with client my main goal with he / her as a clients is to meet them where they are at now in their trials, tribulations, and suffering; we also celebrate their moments of personal growth, self-awareness, discovery, and change. As a pastoral counselor, the stakes are changed in the sense that there is an additional responsibility to look after the client’s journey in towards spiritual growth and a more mature faith. We seek to aid in the process of humanization, psychological wholeness, and well-being where we desire to give our client’s a taste of what is means to be “a fully functioning, free, consciously aware, responsible, and loving” individual. God did not create human beings to suffer any evil; that was the fault of man. Therefore, the ultimate questions I will ask of my clients are these: “What part is God playing in the story of your life?” and “What is God asking of you in this