Trauma Theory
an adverse event that can be a one-time event, an ongoing event, or a series of several events that exhaust a person's coping skills and impact a person's daily life in some way.
What is trauma?
nonviolence, emotional intelligence, social learning, democracy, open communication, social responsibility, growth and change.
What are the seven commitments?
Safety, Emotions, Loss, and Future
What does SELF stand for?
Common rituals and practices to reinforce our knowledge, values and language.
What is Shared Practices?
This focuses on establishing a therapeutic environment that promotes safety, recovery, and healing from these stressful and traumatic events and promotes resiliency and growth.
What is The Sanctuary Model?
This requires an organization to promote a sense of safety, security, and equity.
What is a trauma-informed care model?
Managing our feelings so that we don't hurt ourselves or others.
What is emotional intelligence?
This provides a common way to discuss issues, solve problems, and plan for the future.
What is Shared Language or What is SELF?
This is how we help the people we serve learn about trauma.
What is psychoeducation?
A response to critical incidents or other situations that require a community level response; follows a protocol that focuses on solution rather than problems.
What is Red Flag Review?
The complex interaction between traumatized individuals, stressed staff, pressured organizations and the social and economic environment, resulting in parallel symptoms, as well as parallel opportunities for recovery and transformation
What is Parallel Process?
Shared decision making.
What is democracy?
Physical, psychological, social, moral
What are the types of safety?
A group practice to develop emotion recognition, focus on the future and build community. Each individual is asked and responds to three questions: How are you feeling? What is your goal? Who will you ask for help?
What is Community Meeting?
A phenomenon in organizations or groups in which emotions become disconnected from their original source and are displaced and acted out in another way.
What is Collective Disturbance?
The cumulative, transformative effect on the helper of working with survivors of traumatic life events, both positive and negative.
What is vicarious trauma?
Being safe outside (physically), inside (emotionally), with others (socially), and to do the right thing (morally).
The part of SELF that represents making healthier choices and having hope that things can be better.
What is Future?
Part of the Sanctuary Model Toolkit; visual reminders of emotional management practices represented as a list of activities, techniques or skills to be used in situations that may trigger physically, psychologically, socially or morally unsafe behaviors.
What is a Safety Plan?
The practice of using Sanctuary model tools and concepts in alignment with the Sanctuary standards for certification.
What is Fidelity?
The tendency for people to repeat traumatic events through behaviors and relationships.
A set of agreements we make as a community to prevent trauma exposure and mitigate its impact on individuals and the community as a whole.
What is Shared Values?
When measuring client progress and treatment this nonhierarchical process encourages discussion and collaboration among team members, clients and families.
What is SELF Service Planning?
a list of activities that we do regularly to help us build resilience in key areas of our lives: personal, professional, organizational, community.
What is a self care plan?
Terms that are used interchangeably to refer to the phenomenon of vicarious trauma, which is the cumulative effect on service providers of exposure to trauma through the work they do
What is Compassion Fatigue/Burnout?