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 men tal 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
•Most survivors exhibit immediate reactions, yet these typically resolve without severe long-term consequences. This is because most trauma survivors are highly resilient and develop appropriate coping strategies, including the use of social sup ports, to deal with the aftermath and effects of trauma.
What is common experiences and trauma
•focuses on giving information to clients to help normalize presenting symptoms, to highlight potential short-term and long-term consequences of trauma
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.
•Still others might deny that they have any feelings associated with their traumatic experiences and define their reactions as numbness or lack of emotions.
What is emotional experience.
•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.
•Self-medication—namely, substance abuse—is one of the methods that traumatized people use in an attempt to regain emotional control, although ultimately it causes even further emotional dysregulation (e.g., substance-induced changes in affect during and after use).
What is emotional dysregulation.
•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.
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.
•Often share a common history or similar activities.
•Often encourage others to not seek support due to shaming the group.
Group trauma
•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
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
•It is natural to focus on what’s not working rather than what has worked. To promote growth after trauma and establish a strengths-based approach, focus on building on clients’ positives.
What is resilience.