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- Trauma is an event(s): overwhelms the person’s perceived ability to cope; debilitates her/him through a central loss of control; creates the necessity for psychological defenses
- Trauma can be a life or death danger or a horrible physical/emotional injury or experience, assault, pain or illness.
- Trauma is a life organizing and life altering violation, betrayal, abandonment.
- Trauma immobilizes/overwhelms normal coping.
- Man-made or natural disasters are also types of trauma.
- It can be a witnessed or direct experience.
Dr. Vincent Felitti of San Diego Kaiser Permanente and Dr. Robert Anda from Center for Disease Control created a study that looks at the effects of childhood trauma on a person’s health and well-being, by taking experiences from under the age of 18.
If ACE Score is 4+, likelihood immensely increases for:
In 1998, more than 17,000 Kaiser Permanente members took the Adverse Childhood Experiences survey.
Results showed that two-thirds of respondents had experienced one or more types of ACE.
The one on the left is a healthy 3-year-old American boy. The one on the right is a three-year-old Romanian boy who lived in one of the many Romanian orphanages that were known for severely neglecting children, thousands of whom were imprisoned in cribs and rarely given attention.
Trauma-informed approaches to care shift the focus from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”
"Flipping your lid" means the prefrontal Cortex (fingernails) have very poor connection with the midbrain (thumb) and we're not able to access the logical, problem-solving part of our brain. Our emotions override our ability to think clearly.
Active listening sounds easy, but it requires skill and practice
There are a number of components of active listening such as:
Active listening skills are essential for a crisis services provider. Good communication is the foundation of a solid relationship. These behaviors are done concurrently while attempting to remain objective, empathic and human.
1. Safety: physical and emotional, environment, support system, cultural consideration
2. Trustworthiness and Transparency: boundaries, offer explanation, follow through, consistency, cultural consideration
3. Peer support: choice, listen, gather input, offer choices, inclusion, cultural consideration
4. Collaboration and mutuality: equal partnership, shared power, connection, team work, accountability, cultural consideration
5. Empowerment, voice and choice: believe the person, build on strengths, teach skills, restore hope, cultural consideration
6. Cultural, Historical, and Gender Issues: language
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Treating hidden wounds.
All behaviors stemming from trauma are coping mechanisms and should be approached as such.
• The survivor's need to be respected, informed, connected, and hopeful regarding their own recovery
• The interrelation between trauma and symptoms of trauma such as substance abuse, eating disorders, depression, and anxiety
• The need to work in a collaborative way with survivors, family and friends of the survivor, and other human services agencies in a manner that will empower survivors and consumers
• Importance of debriefing
- Neurotransmitters activate the amygdala, which apparently triggers the brain's response to emotions to a stressful event. Neurotransmitters then signal the hippocampus to store the emotionally loaded experience in long-term memory. In primitive times, this combination of responses would have been essential for survival, when long-lasting memories of dangerous stimuli would be critical for avoiding such threats in the future.
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- When stress hormones, intended for an emergency, remain “switched on” for a long time they can slow the growth of nerve fibers in the areas of the brain (hippocampus) which links experiences to emotions, and then stores the memories of these experiences and emotions. Imagine the far-reaching effects of overexposure to stress hormones on the brain of a child which is still growing.
- Some studies have shown that the hippocampus actually shrinks as a result of stress hormones over time.