Trauma Case Study

Jane is a nine year old girl who has been brought in to therapy by her mother for stealing, being destructive, lying, behaving aggressively toward her younger siblings, and acting cruelly to animals. Jane has also been acting clingy and affectionate toward strangers.

What is the impact of historical trauma on a particular client population? How can Trauma Informed principals be used to reduce the impact of historical trauma on specific clients?

Ingrid is a social worker, wife, and a mother who lives in a two story colonial home with her husband and two daughters, aged 8 and 15 years old. She was active in the school of her children, serving on committees and volunteering to read in the classroom. She attended to church habitually, though her husband did not accompany her. Her interests included swimming, snorkeling, and hiking. Not only was she close to her immediate family, but also maintained frequent contact with her college friends living throughout the country. As well, Ingrid requires moderate assistance with most of her basic activities of daily living (BADL).

I. Theoretical and Research Basis for Treatment While working with Precious it has become clear that she has gone through a number of traumas as a child and up until her young adulthood. Precious, dealing with both sexual and physical abuse, has come a long way in wanting to seek treatment and actually wanting to move past her previous traumas. Relevant treatment choices for Precious would be Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Trauma focused cognitive behavior therapy Exposure therapy Cognitive Processing Therapy Integrative treatment of complex trauma for adolescents.

In the third case study, Sarah suffered from sexual assault when a stranger broke into her home. Like physical abuse, sexual abuse is an interpersonal trauma, which causes the most severe outcomes because the trauma is intentional. Sarah feels ashamed and guilty about the assault. She questions whether she should have resisted the attacker more when he began advancing at her. She also feels as though it is her fault for playing her music to loud which caused her to not be able to hear the intruder. After the attack, she has felt stupid and dirty and she has begun withdrawing from others including her husband and children. She thinks about the event constantly and imagines different scenarios happening. She has started experiencing intrusive

Additionally, becoming involved in a mentoring relationship would be advantageous to me. The research world is not an area that I am familiar with, so it would be beneficial to have a knowledgeable mentor to rely on when I have questions. I understand that becoming an occupational therapy researcher is not a task that I can achieve independently. I hope that this program could provide me with individuals who can relay their experiences to me and aid me on my career path. I believe that I can conversely be valuable in the mentor-mentee relationship by bringing fresh ideas to our ever-developing

As you may recall, a new cumulative trauma claim was filed on behalf of the applicant, based on the deposition testimony given by the applicant on January 11, 2016. The new cumulative trauma claim alleges an injury to applicant’s head, eye, neck and shoulder spanning from June 1, 2007 through September 1, 2010. The cumulative trauma claim has been alleged against Butler Manufacturing, also known as Bluescope Steel North America. The case number for this claim is ADJ10645627. A denial letter was sent on November 14, 2016 by Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., on behalf of Bluescope Steel North America.

Your introduction is very engaging and emphasizes the important role of communication after experiencing trauma. I believe your topic is very relatable because there is a sense of denial, seclusion, and dissociation that correlates with trauma and loss that many of us have experienced. Open communication within a family unit provides opportunities to express thoughts and feelings and develop appropriate coping strategies (Zambianchi & Bitti, 2014). In your intro you stated, "The impact childhood trauma has on our society and on children." As a suggestion, maybe you could expand on this statement or state specific impacts childhood trauma has on our society or on children. I love your examples of evidenced based interventions and how

The Golden hour. In the field this is a term that was created by R Adams Cowley, MD, meaning that if a critical patient receives medical care within an hour, their chance of survival rises substantially. Within that hour a trauma patient will interact with several people, one of them being a Trauma Doctor, which is the career choice that I have chosen for myself. Trauma doctors evaluate, diagnose, stabilize and manage patients who have experienced some type of physical traumatic injury. Trauma doctors are usually trauma surgeons who have specialized critical care surgery training. The Trauma surgeon is a vital part of the golden hour, because within that hour if the patient can receive surgery the likelihood of the patient living heightens. The responsibilities of

I will be looking at case scenario two and working alongside Kyra (Ms Y) who is a refugee with a history of trauma. The client is experiencing distress, grief, loss, and depression after arriving in Australia and has multiple unmet needs. In the following essay I will critically discuss and justify how I might engage with the client by applying the three helping process phases, as well as introducing a number of topics such as: identifying the key issues, any bias to the subjective information provided, any qualities that might enhance engagement, consider what information I would need to collect, and recommendations to my boss. There are three phases in the helping process and each phase involves tasks to be accomplished. They are: “Exploration, engagement, assessment and planning,” “Implementation and goal attainment,” and lastly, “Termination.”

occupational therapy my career topic. Since that time, I’ve had the opportunity to shadow at

Debbie had many risk factors involved in her childhood and as she continued to grow up. One risk factor that had impacted her childhood family is that of social acceptance of violence. Debbie’s parents were not only accepting of the violence between their children but they were also promoting it. These violent views and values put Debbie at risk for child maltreatment and abuse as well as social and emotional issues as an adult. Debbie was in a higher risk of maltreatment being the youngest girl then that of her brothers and older sister.

The plight has been ignored, and this is detrimental to their normal lives. Some of them have families, and they cannot adequately concentrate on their normal lives because of the trauma. The first responders are open to constant scenarios involving intense stress, and therefore, most of them suffer emotional and mental stress. The overall effect is that if the problem is left unattended to they eventually suffer from psychological trauma. Psychological trauma impairs the capacity of the responders to function in the society and handles the future emergency situations correctly. Therefore, it is imperative that the first responders are accorded the proper techniques to mitigate the effects of the trauma they encounter in their services. Therefore,

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.

Thompson and colleagues (2009): Physical and sexual abuse was moderately positively correlated with positive symptom severity (especially grandiosity) among ethnic minority participants (N=17), while general trauma was positively correlated with affective symptoms among Caucasian participants (N=13).