Trauma Systems Therapy Essay

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The Trauma Systems Therapy Approach
A child that has been removed from the home has experienced one to four traumatic events in their life. “Trauma is defined as an experience that overwhelms a person’s ability to cope”. The type of traumatic event could be a death of a parent, domestic violence, poverty, physical, sexual or emotional abuse; neglect; the list goes on to cover many other area’s that could affect a child. A traumatic aspect of any person could lead them not to be able to regulate things normally. Children that has not experienced a traumatic event can calm their selves down, can observe and learn, have meaningful relationships with individuals and groups, trust others and make good choices that keep others safe and along with their selves. The children that have had these negative experiences have lost the ability to have a safe, secure and a permanent atmosphere. The approach that KVC has adopted is that they want to modify these experiences to improve the outcome of these children and their family.

At KVC they want to change the way that foster parents, educational professionals respond to the behaviors that come with the children that have been affected by a traumatic event. The response from these children are based on survival, many cultures throughout history have endured the same thing, you either fight, flee or you freeze in that moment of feeling threatened. An individual response differently under distress according to their life experience in that they tend to react a lot quicker without thinking about the situation. For example, a child that had been physically or sexually abused might respond to how someone looks, act or the tone in their voice that reminds them of the traumatic moment that they wen...

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KVC provides their services to anyone that needs it, the social workers and other staff does not discriminate their clients based upon ethnic background and culture. Some of the barriers that could come into play are language in which there are only a few KVC workers that speak Spanish that can interpret for the client. Besides language barriers there are the income, transportation, access ability to services that is a barrier to the clients that could play a role.
KVC is not a non-profit agency but it does get funding through grants from the state and federal agencies. KVC just last July was awarded that contract for Southeast Kansas. Basically if

Agency Practice Model 2014
KVC does not prove itself to the state that it could lose the contract when it comes up to renew it and then it would go to whoever is awarded the contract for the next five years.

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