Dyad 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.

· Vicarious trauma/Compassion Fatigue: a psychological phenomenon with rapid onset of symptoms that occurs when a human-being provides care to another human-being who has been traumatized and is comprised of two separate, but related phenomena, Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress. These effects are cumulative and will continue until intervention methods are introduced. For the purpose of this study, vicarious trauma is defined in relation to subscales within Professional Quality Of Life Scale (ProQOL

As you have learned, understanding trauma bonding is essential to serving clients who are victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. Bonding is one of the most important things human beings do, but unfortunately we bond in dangerous relationships, sometimes even more so than in healthy ones. In this module, we will explore the final two stages of change, and will integrate some notes and suggestions for healing strategies. Remember, every victim is different. Best practices recommends offering the victim as many options for choice as possible; from the type of therapy, to the therapist itself, as well as other details such as locations of meetings, or how quickly or slowly they disclose the abuse, should be on the victim/survivor’s

In my opinion if my fellow peers are failing to realize that they need help overcoming or learning to live with the effects of traumatic experiences, then they are failing themselves as professional. How are they going to address a patient coming in to the office dealing with an event such as rape? Are they going to turn the patient away and not want to deal with him or her because the issue is to uncomfortable to deal with or they will be fearing of reliving their traumatic

When something happens to an individual and the opportunities to talk about the incident is repressed, there is likeliness that the victim will feel dissatisfied and “left alone.” There is absolutely nothing like re-victimizing ourselves when we talk or revisit a traumatic occurrence. In fact the only

Fred Rogers once said, “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important trust can help us know that we are not alone.” After a trauma, it may take time to process. Memories scatter and soon start to feel overwhelming.

Mrs. Drover is a woman with an interesting and traumatic past. The book “Demon Lover” is about a woman who has been through. many difficult times, including losing her fiance during WW1. her home during WW2.

When dealing with trauma, it can be hard to join certain groups and talk to people because they can feel detached naturally and it can cause them just to observe rather than make an effort to join the group or conversation. The story “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros shows just how dealing with trauma can affect a person; in the story she states “Instead, when it happened the first time, when they were barely man and wife, she had been so stunned, it left her speechless, motionless, numb. She had done nothing but reach up to the heat in her mouth and stare at the blood on her hand as if even then she didn’t understand.”

After being sexually assaulted people will handle it all different ways. It can change their mental health or even the way they carry themselves physically. “Having a history of sexual assault is related to perceiving ones health as poor or fair, rather than good or excellent (see Golding, Cooper, & George, 1997). In one study involving seven general population surveys (i.e., surveys in which people were randomly selected to represent those living in a particular region or in the entire country), the odds of

Over 92% of sexual assault survivors disclose the assault to at least one person, and the types of responses they receive vary. The negative social reactions can cause maladaptive coping strategies for the survivor, and result in PSTD symptoms. A common negative response to an assault disclosure include blaming the victim, treating the victim as if they are broken or they have changed, as well as attempting to control the victim’s situation or even completely disregarding the victim’s emotions and focusing on their own feelings. Often times, when a person is assaulted it is by someone they know (unlike the common stereotype where a person jumps out of the bushes and attacks the weak victim), and the victim feels as if they cannot trust people again, making negative responses to disclosure almost like a stab in the back because the survivor has ran out of people to trust. When a person gives negative feedback to an assault disclosure, it prolongs the victims recovery time. A victim can feel as if they are not in control of their recovery and makes them question their actions and feelings. Also, in addition to the “loss of control”, they could disengage from seeking support and aid from others, falling into maladaptive coping strategies to avoid the feelings of anger, sadness, and anxiety. Often times, survivors can seek out alcohol or drugs to aid them in their recovery process, although they do not know they are causing more harm to themselves. However, negative reactions may not necessarily impair individual forms of adaptive coping, especially for survivors who do not rely on others for support during recovery. Some survivors can use the negative responses to encourage themselves to not rely on others for support and focus on individual strategies for coping (i.e. meditation, cognitive

By someone they know. Husbands, former partners, and even friends. Victims of sexual assault survivors often suffer from a wide range of physical and mental health problems such as PTSD, Depression, Chronic pain, anxiety and also eating disorders. They are more

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

The reasoning behind why I cannot answer this question is because I have never been a victim of a sexual assault and I do not know how I would react or how it would make me feel. Some victims feel embarrassment, shame, anger, fear, guilt. Those are just a few of the effects that linger from being a victim of sexual assault. Victims all respond differently to abuse they endured. There are also unknown variables that come into play like what age the victim is when they are abused. Age plays a major factor in how traumatic an event might have been. Or if the offender was a family member such as a bio-parent who molested their child. Should they ever have to face their offender?

Because of the depiction made within the media, I also assumed that victims of childhood trauma were only able to overcome through the use of therapeutic care. Therapeutic care is often depicted as the only option that victims use that will ensure that they do not fall into a state of depression or begin to abuse drugs. It is rare to see movies where they are promoting social relationships as a bonus to the use of therapeutic services. Although it is not often depicted, social relationships do help in the quest to overcome the horrors of childhood trauma. Social relationships are any form of bonds created between a person and their

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.