Trauma, Crisis & Healing
This type of healing can include being a truth-teller in your family, or learning to parent differently.
What is generational healing?
Being fully present, patient, non-judgmental, and controlling body language.
What are characteristics of an effective listener?
Having strong family support (external resource) and having strong problem-solving skills (internal resource) could be examples of this.
What is recovery capital?
An example of this principle is not sharing information with other staff, without the consent of the person served.
What is protecting dignity and privacy?
Professional development can be considered a part of this.
What is professional wellness?
This part of the body may work overtime for someone who is experiencing chronic stress and crisis.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
"How do you define personal success?" is one example of this.
What is an open-ended question?
One example is talking about addiction as a choice.
What is stigma?
This principle means we do not try to influence or compel someone into making a choice.
What is honoring self-determination and informed choice?
The three main categories of boundaries.
What are personal, professional, and institutional boundaries?
Cold water, controlled breathing, movement, and mindfulness practices can assist someone with this process.
What is regulation?
Benefits of this skill include fostering self-confidence and reducing feelings of shame (among others).
What is validation?
Pathways to recovery.
What are clinical, non-clinical, and natural recovery?
Sharing your reentry story may be an example of this practice principle.
What is promoting belonging and hope?
A PRP can do this with a person, or for a person.
What is advocacy?
Exhaustion, confusion, sadness, numbness, and dissociation are examples of this.
What is short-term impact of trauma?
Common listening missteps.
What are trying to solve the problem, assuming you already know what the person is trying to say, trying to analyze the problem, jumping to conclusions, giving unsolicited advice, saying how much you understand, interviewing instead of listening, moving to quickly, and changing the subject?
Health, home, community, and purpose.
What are the four dimensions of recovery?
This practice principle is in play when a PRP works with someone to build their confidence.
What is focusing on strengths and capabilities?
Systems and resources that a person navigating reentry may need.
When someone has experienced multiple traumatic events and the hardships that have come from adapting to or surviving the experiences.
What is complex trauma?
The purpose of reflection.
What is to ensure that you understand what the speaker is saying, helps the speaker feel heard, and supports the speaker in clarifying their own thoughts?
Risk factors for mental health.
What are genetics, unemployment, poverty, alcohol or substance use, poor family relationships, chronic health conditions, lack of sleep, poor nutrition, traumatic life experiences, poor social relationships and mistreatment?
This practice principle can be seen in the following scenario: A person served asks a PRP for their opinion, because they want to "get it right." Instead of telling them, the PRP always asks the person served what they think.
What is maintaining mutuality rather than authority?
The six stages of the Sequential Intercept Model.
What are community services, law enforcement, initial detention/initial court hearings, jails/courts, reentry, community corrections?