Does The Tuohy Family Replace Trauma?

A trauma informed model of practice should centre upon a perspective that asks the client user ‘what happened to you’ rather than ‘what is wrong with you’ (Bloom and Farragher). This approach promotes the base line for which the service should be impliemented; an approach which enable to cliet to connect how their trauma has influence their behaviour, feelings, coping mechanisim and general perspective (Felitti et al. 1998). Staff within the home should have a good degree of trauma informed care as this enable for a deeper understanding of how the trauma can impact upon the individual and allow for holistic care (Harris and Fallot, 2001) and enables better support and help reduce to protential for re-tramatisation via triggers and uncousious re-enactment of trauma (SAMHSA, 2010). Implementing the above approach the client can receive the holistic carer they require in order to begin to overcome the trauma they have experienced.

When Jack and his friends try to pants him, Michael surges, because he wants to protect himself. This supports my claim that Michael had to abuse his powers against the bullies. Second, he threatens the bullies and shocks Tim at the game, because he likes Taylor and doesn't like it when she talks to other guys. As I watched her I got madder and madder. He was holding a coke and talking to her.

Michael could've got him and his friends hurt, but Michael took his chance and did the right thing to get him and his friends out. Michael knows what he wants, and he's willing to make people stop doing things that are terrorizing people. Michael is gonna do whatever it takes to do things the right way. Yes, Taylor is not likely to misuse his special powers. To begin, Taylor used to use her powers for silly things at first, but when she got serious she helped reboot people to help with the plan.

Michael has never accepted the role of a victim. In fact, he has always had a creator mindset. Michael continuously choses the wise decision in situations. For example, when he goes back to his mother’s apartment, Alton says to Michael to come to him about his shoes. Michael knows that Alton is a bad guy, and even though he desperately needs new shoes, choses to ignore Alton’s advances.

As a young child Michael suffered abuse and enforcement to succeed by his father. Michael has said that this has affected his physical development as there had been times when his father would come to see him and he would be sick. This was just from the fear he had of his father hurting him if he did not do well.

To Mr. and Mrs. Rappoport, I think that they believe Michael 's most disturbing behaviors were the temper tantrums at home and school, and his recent tendency to slap his younger sister. Michael 's parents

Thomas Sr., Oskar’s grandfather, is one of the many characters who demonstrated survivor’s guilt throughout the novel. Due to the everlasting trauma from the Dresden bombing, the grandfather used several defence mechanisms to help cope with his pain, including psychological removal, splitting and anti coping. As seen in the article “Generations of Trauma” by Hannah Starman, psychological removal is the withdrawal of emotion from a situation, in which the person distances them self in order to compensate for the inability to deal with emotion. The grandfather used this mechanism by creating rules to emotionally and physically distance himself from his wife, and “only a few months into [their] marriage, [they] started marking off areas in the

“It is estimated that there are three times the number of First Nations children in foster care today than there were at the height of the residential schools” (Blackstock, 2011, p.2). Indigenous children today are mainly overrepresented in the case of neglect which is driven by poverty, homelessness, and substance abuse; often due to unaddressed trauma. When dealing with the Indigenous population this relates to the intergenerational trauma caused by colonialism. Although there is more awareness in BC around the negative impacts of colonialism there still lacks a solution for the CFCSA to provide adequate services to Indigenous children that would address the overrepresentation.

Michael was brought up in poor project housing that was consumed by drugs, alcohol, and gangs. He was pushed in and out of foster homes forcefully being separated from his mother and siblings. As the movie showed in harsh flashbacks, Michael is deeply affected by the forceful separation from his mother. This constant absence from the mother or other supportive figures leaves Michael unable to make a secure attachment to any strong base. Erikson’s stage of trust versus mistrust is displayed due to Michael’s inability to count on the kindness and compassion of others which leads him to withdraw from his surroundings (p 248). This abrupt memory in life affects Michael in his idea of family and commitment. The harsh environment also kept Michael from attending school, and the times he did there was no support for him to even try in school.

Without the natural protective instinct of Michaels personality and the compassion Leigh Anne shows towards her adoptive son. the movie would not be as compelling and emotional as it is. Michael, coming from a rough background of a poor family and low education, learns to trust and love Leigh Anne and her family as she treats him like her own son. The only reason Michael gets to where he is on the football team is through Leigh Anne's constant motivation, support, and love. Michael feels as though it is his duty to protect not only her family, but also use this motivational instinct on the field to help his team win. This outlook is cruicial to Michael's amazing football abilities. Before he knew his self worth, Michael did not have much to defend in his life. The love and support from Leigh Annes family encouraged Michael to take his powerful defensive qualities and use them in every benefiting way he can in

Trauma-informed care refers to a strength-based framework that is based on an understanding of the impact of trauma. This practice emphasizes on psychological, physical, and emotional safety for the providers, the survivors, and it creates an opportunity for the survivors to rebuild themselves and get a sense of control and empowerment. This practice is based on the growing knowledge about several negative impacts that are brought by psychological trauma (Withers, 2017). To understand more about trauma-informed care, this excerpt will examine what the concept entails, how one can change his or her practice to be more trauma-informed and incorporate Eric's experience in the discussion.

Historical trauma (HT), also referred to as Intergenerational trauma, is the theory that large historical traumas can be experienced by descendants generations later. (Walkerdine, Olsvold, & Rudberg, 2013). The position that clinicians take is that traumatic historical events associated with events such as war, slavery, colonization, and poverty are experienced and transmitted between family members and crosses generations. Some ethnical groups that have historical trauma response in the United States are: Jewish Holocaust survivors, African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Native Americans. I want to focus on the historical trauma of American Indians and the work of Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart, Ph.D. in examining the historical trauma

and then they got along. This story shows that Michael struggles with changes in his life. One reason Michael struggles is with living with his aunt. Michael is struggling with living with his aunt is because they always fight and his aunt tries to make him admit that he hates living there.

Have you ever thought of yourself as fearless, or strong? Well Michael was both he was brave. It is important to know he was brave. Bravery was an very important trait for Michael. He had fought threw thick and thin for everyone that was important him.

This is shown when he starts to accept the help others are offering him. He accepts the Touy’s help by going shopping with Leanne and working with a tutor that they hire for him, he also starts to work with his teacher’s in-between classes in order to improve his grades. He is working hard to rid himself of internal conflict, or in other words he is working hard to achieve inner-harmony. Throughout the film we see that Michael holds the instrumental value of love. We learn that whenever Michael was taken from his mother he would run away to find her. This shows his need to help and protect her, which is Michael’s way of showing love. We see this concept throughout the film, such as when Michael deflects the airbag from hitting S.J, and when Leanne tells Michael to protect the football team as if they were his