Sociocultural Perspective
Can affect people of every race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender, psychosocial background, and geographic region.
What is Trauma
•May add significant stress due to threat of others stealing what remains of personal property, restrictions on travel or access to property or living quarters, disruption of privacy within shelters, media attention, and subsequent exposure to repetitive images reflecting the devastation.
What is natural disaster?
•REPEATED SEXUAL/PHYSICAL/EMOTIONAL ABUSE, FIRST RESPONDER EXPERIENCES, CHRONIC POVERTY, VIOLENT RELATIONSHIPS.
What is repeated Trauma
Initial reactions to trauma can include exhaustion, confusion, sadness, anxiety, agitation, numbness, dissociation, confusion, physical arousal, and blunted affect
What is sequence of trauma.
•Consistent therapist
•Routines in therapy: to know what to expect
•Educate about safety and environment and normalize client reactions
What is establishing safety.
A person presenting with both trauma and substance abuse issues can have a variety of other difficult life problems that commonly accompany these disorders, such as
What are other psychological symptoms or mental disorders, poverty, homelessness, increased risk of HIV and other infections, and lack of social support.
•airplane crash, mass shooting, human trafficking, roofing collapse, technology
What is a human caused trauma.
WHEN A SERIES OF TRAUMAS OCCUR IN A PATTERN THAT DOES NOT ALLOW TIME TO REGULATE TRAUMA
What is cascading Trauma
True or False: trauma that occurs in the earlier and midlife years appears to have greater impact on people for different reasons
What is true.
•focuses on giving information to clients to help normalize presenting symptoms, to highlight potential short-term and long-term consequences of trauma, provided throughout therapy.
What is psychoeducation
•Understanding the prevalence of trauma and the role upon human development
What is trauma awareness.
•Trauma including a group, such as classroom, military, employees
What is community/group trauma.
Experienced happened to you.
What is direct experience.
What is it called when trauma survivors repetitively relive and recreate a past trauma in their present lives?
What is reenactment.
•You and your clients need to walk a thin line when addressing trauma. Too much work focused on highly distressing content can turn a desensitization process into a session where by the client dissociates, shuts down, or be comes emotionally overwhelmed.
What is balance?
•Peer Support
•Training
•Clinical Supervision
•Life Balance
•Healthy Boundaries
What is reducing secondary trauma.
•Can be a single event or repetitive experiences of intense overwhelming stress. Distorted perception of trauma due to the shame and lack of needed support.
Individual trauma
Assumptions about safety, perception of others, fairness, purpose of life, future dreams challenged or disrupted during or after the traumatic event
What is disruptions of core assumptions and beliefs.
•Some trauma survivors, especially individuals whose trauma occurred at a young age, have difficulty regulating what?
What is emotions.
•Strong feelings of powerlessness can arise in trauma survivors seeking to regain some control of their lives. Whether a person has survived a single trauma or chronic trauma, the survivor can feel crushed by the weight of powerlessness. Therapists are to focus upon?
What is empowerment.
The shared values, traditions, arts, history, folklore, and institutions of a group of people that are unified by race, ethnicity, nationality, language, religious beliefs, spirituality, socioeconomic status, social class, sexual orientation, politics, gender, age, disability, or any other cohesive group variable
What is culture.
Ensuring clients have tools to support them in decreasing trauma symptoms is part of establishing?
What coping skills
•harsh consequences from families and faith traditions, higher risk of assault from casual sexual partners, hate crimes, lack of legal protection, and laws of exclusion are linked to someone's?
What is sexual orientation.
Cutting burning skin by heat (e.g., cigarettes) or caustic liquids, punching hard enough to self-bruise, head banging, hair pulling, self-poisoning, inserting foreign objects into bodily orifices, excessive nail biting, excessive scratching, bone breaking, gnawing at flesh, interfering with wound healin
What is self-harm
Using a theoretical approach to trauma therapy decrease the risk of why type of harm?
What is unintentional harm.