Feel free to consider the following: o What indications are there that this summary is trauma informed? In Jalisa’s case summary, there are quite a few indications that this summary is trauma informed. In crisis situations, social workers work with survivors to identify needs and come up with plans that include referrals or recommendations that will work toward fulfilling the client’s needs (Goelitz & Stewart-Kahn, 2013). The text states that during the assessment process, social workers act as detectives, uncovering aspects of crisis needing consideration (Goelitz & Stewart-Kahn, 2013). The clinician conducting Jalisa’s assessment uncovered Jalisa and her family have a history of past trauma, fleeing homeland and relocating from refugee camp. Jalisa’s father also believes in corporal punishment and Jalisa has expressed fear receiving disciplinary actions from father. Jalisa’s clinician recommended further exploration of these incidents. Crisis situations also call for assessing the safety of the survivor. It was determined that Jalisa felt safe in her home, even with her father coming home for the weekend. A safety plan for Jalisa for the weekend was then established. As a summary indicator of trauma informed, the clinician assesses for mental health issues, stating that Jalisa did not exhibit any serious acute trauma related stress at this time. …show more content…
I do not think my case formulation would be much different. I would want to further explore possible traces of trauma within Jalisa’s past but without rapport and trust, if the clinician was to explore deeper the clinician could cause further traumatization. Perhaps one thing my case formulation would differ in, is instead of referring Jalisa to further counseling treatment at another agency I would have liked to continue counseling session with her. o How could you incorporate the interventions for vulnerable populations, listed in Goelitz pp.
The job of a child welfare worker appears to be a demanding profession that promotes the child’s safety, but also strengthens the family organization around them in order to successfully raise the children. This child welfare workers work in the system known as the Child Protective Services whose initiative is to protect the overall welfare of the child. The short novel From the Eye of the Storm: the Experiences of a Child Welfare Worker by Cynthia Crosson-Tower demonstrates the skills necessary to deal with the practice of social work along with both its challenges and its happy moments. The novel consists of some of the cases involving Tower’s actual career in social work. In reading the book, I was able to experience some of the actual cases in which children dealt with physical and mental abuse from their families that caused them to end up within the system. Also, some of these children had issues in adapting to foster and adoptive families based on the issues they faced earlier in life. As we have learned earlier in the course, the violence that a child experiences early in life has an overall affect on the person they become as they grow into adulthood. When children deal with adverse childhood experiences, they are at a higher risk for abusing drugs and/or alcohol, increased likelihood of abusing their own child or spouse, higher rates of violent and nonviolent criminal behavior, along with several other issues throughout their lifespan.
Renee Heikamp, 19, and case worker from the Catholic Children’s Aid Society (CCAS), Angie Martin, were charged with criminal negligence resulting in the 1997 death of newborn baby, Jordan Heikamp. The charges were dropped shortly after Jordan’s death, due to a lack of evidence from the investigation of a 63-day inquest. (CBC, 2001). Renee Heikamp and her baby were residing at the Anduhyaun shelter that services Aboriginal women fleeing abuse during the time of his death. Jordan Heikamp had starved to death, weighing only 4 pounds, 4 ounces less than what he weighed at his pre-mature birth, in May 1997; a photograph shown to witnesses at the inquest revealed the corpse of the baby who was little more than a skeleton.
From the presentation, the most important thing I learned was that statistically, more than 60 percent of the population has experienced some sort of trauma and it could lead to substance use, depression and risky
When trauma victims process what is going on around them, it can be done in a verbal or written activities. This helps bring the unconscious into the conscious (James & Gilliland, 2016). When there is exposure of what is going on, the client and the therapist can work towards a common goal. There can be homework assignments that can help monitor what has been going on when the victim is at home and busy with their daily routines. The general goal of this approach is to create a new way of thinking about the event that will give the victim hope and a positive outlook on the future ahead (James & Gilliland,
To gauge the efficacy of the trauma-informed perspective, I chose the following research question for my project evaluation: in a community corrections facility, does a trauma-informed orientation affect retention rates for females who have co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders and a clinical diagnosis of PTSD? By comparing completion rates between women with a diagnosis of PTSD in a trauma-informed group and those who were not in a trauma-informed group, I evaluated how a
...porate debriefing and self-care techniques to address and alleviate the impact of vicarious trauma. After researching policies and the law as it relates to vicarious trauma. I have concluded that there is a substantial need for further research .There is also a growing consensus that there is a need to address the immediate needs of those exposed to trauma –the need for safety, restoration and connection to social support before addressing the trauma itself. There also is large amounts of research the identifies and defines the cause of vicarious trauma. However, concerning treatment there is little not any research. The consistent them for the prevention of vicarious trauma is self-care and the devolvement of positive coping skills. However, there needs to be a structured set of universal guidelines that can be referenced across the board to address this issue.
It is imperative to be aware of the implications that come about from domestic violence, and as a nurse, be prepared to properly care for this population of patients. This is an extremely sensitive issue that must be addressed properly, and in doing so nurses can make it easier for the patient to open up about the situation. The patient will be able to provide valuable information that can help bring about an appropriate plan of care if they feel like the nurse is being “empathetic and non-judgmental” (Van Der Wath et al., 2013, p. 2244). Domestic violence not only affects the patient, but also the nurse caring for the patient. This can take an emotional toll on the nurse. In caring for a patient who is a victim of intimate partner abuse, the nurse is vulnerable to suffering from secondary traumatic stress, and therefore it is relevant and necessary to study the experiences lived by nurses’ who have cared for this population of patients. The study can give insight as to what exactly nurses experience, and how to improve the outcomes for both the patient and the
Thesis Statement: Trauma is more than just a word to describe scientifically what we are feeling. It is a part of people’s everyday lives.
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(2013) are valid, reliable and reasonable. By being valid, the conclusions can be considered as being believable and credible. The findings are genuine. There is internal validity in that the procedures and instruments utilized in the study measured what they were designed or intended to measure. For instance, in the intervention group, the study subjects – war-affected young women who had been exposed to improper sexual touch and rape – were treated with trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy and this resulted in a decline in their symptoms of posttraumatic stress. In the research study, the new intervention has good internal validity as something that reduces posttraumatic stress. With regard to external validity, the findings of the research study could be generalised outside the current study. The findings could be applied to people, particularly girls, beyond the sample used in the study; that is, beyond the raped, war-affected girls in Congo. The findings could be applied to girls with posttraumatic stress disorder in other settings and countries. Reliability is understood as the repeatability of research results. If the research study by O’Callaghan et al. (2013) were to be carried out another time, it is likely to produce similar outcomes. As such, the data are considered as being reliable. The results are also reasonable since the findings are realistic and sensible. The conclusions relate
Children are affected by domestic violence in a variety of ways and it places children at risk “emotionally, developmentally and physically” (Sully, 2008). Therefore, children are often unintentional victims of family violence and they are placed, at an increased risk for physical and sexual abuse in families that are prone to domestic abuse (Sully, 2008). Furthermore, children are more aware of the violence in the family than the parents can envisage (Sully, 2008). As a result, some children are emotionally affected by this violence while others remain quite intact (Sully, 2008). Therefore, based on the above case scenario, the children should be removed from the toxic environment and placed in temporary state care. The children should receive counselling for the incident, they witnessed, to reduce the impact of the trauma they might have suffered. The children have witnessed this aggressive behaviour repeatedly, therefore, counselling is essential to ensure that they do not normalize the behavior. Furthermore, removing them from the abusive environment temporarily could prevent the children from becoming desensitized to the abusive behavior and can serve as an interruption to a possible cycle of violence as they grow
When a child witnesses domestic abuse it can have many different effects on the child. From my research I found that one of the most common effects on the child were mental health problems. In one study, conducted in New Zealand, young people that reported high levels of exposure to inter-parental violence had elevated rates of mental health problems (Fergusson & Horwood, 1998, p.1). Some of the least severe mental health problems included anxiety, inability to focus, and nightmares (Brescoll & Graham-Bermann, 2000, p.2). But these problems, which appear to be less severe, can also be the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (Brescoll & Graham-Bermann, 2000, p.2). In a study conducted in 2001 the results indicated that higher levels of symptoms indicative of post traumatic stress were associated with children who have witnessed domestic violence (Hill & Nabors & Reynolds & Wallace & Weist, 2001, p.1). ?Children who have witnessed domestic violence are more likely to develop symptoms associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; that is, high levels of an...
Research suggests that women who are highly empathetic or social workers who have unresolved personal trauma is at higher risk for developing STS. Additionally, professionals who carry a heavier caseload of traumatized children are also at high risk for developing STS (NCTSN, 2011). STS is much so preventable. The literature states that STS can typically prevented with proper supervision, attainable caseloads, continuing education trainings, support of colleagues, and
Dr. Becca C. Johnson, a psychologist of over 25 years, currently serves as the Clinical Director for Engedi Refuge, a residential recovery home for female victims of domestic sex trafficking, overseeing individual and group therapy. Dr. Johnson has also led trauma and counseling training abroad and in the US for various shelters serving victims of sex trafficking.Dr. Johnson notes the seven domains of complex trauma symptoms and behavioral characteristics that can transpire which was identified originally by researchers Cook, Blaustein, Spinazzola, & Van der
In Trauma and Recovery, Herman discusses the need for a change in how we define trauma related to repeated, ongoing, lasting abuse versus a “brief stress reaction”. In addition, she finds problem with the fact that symptoms of any trauma an individual experiences is lumped together into one category- one diagnosis. She states, “The responses to trauma are best understood as a spectrum of conditions rather than as a single disorder,” (87). Thus comes her first step to a solution in transitioning simple diagnoses of trauma and PTSD, breaking it down from a lumped diagnosis