Trauma has a significant negative effect on a woman’s ability to work, with many women often being unable work for years at a time. When women are a part of WOTM, they are not necessarily ready for job searching. During the months of February, March and April, we had four “sector specific specialists” facilitate information clinics for both past and present WOTM participants. These specialists are experts in their field who volunteered their time with the WOTM program. Pictured: WOTM Clinic Discussion Hilary and Monica co-facilitated three job skills workshops: networking and job search; resume writing; and interview skills. Each workshop had about 6 women attend. By having volunteers Monica and Hilary share their expertise with job skills
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).
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.
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?
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.”
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
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.
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
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
occupational therapy my career topic. Since that time, I’ve had the opportunity to shadow at
Barely 30 years old, Mark, a rising Orange County management professional, has become an expert in recovering from hip surgery as he completes his third, and hopefully final, rehabilitation program following his latest arthroscopic procedure for a hip impingement.
Of the three periods ante, peri and post-mortem, ante mortem is the easiest of all three to identify. This is because the trauma-sustained ante-mortem will have generally already began to show signs of healing (Sauer, N.J. 1998). The healing process begins almost immediately after the fracture; evidence of the healing process can show just one week after the injury. Between weeks, one and three the edges of the fracture will start to become remoulded and rounded and by weeks six, a bony callus will begin to form. These periods can only be considered a general overview because different factors such as health and location and severity of the fracture come into play. The assessment of trauma forms an extremely important part of the investigation
1. Drawings from examinations done as early as 1838 depicted what we now perceive as MS. In1868, Jean-Martin Charcot, an educator at the College of Paris who has been called "the father of neurology," precisely inspected a young lady with a tremor of a sort he had never seen. He noticed she had other neurological issues including slurred discourse, irregular eye developments and then he contrasted them with different clients he had seen. When she passed on, he inspected her brain and found the marked scars or plaques (Rolak, n.d.).
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.
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.
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).