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Reflective journey
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- Physical Violence
- Sexual Violence
- Psychological &Emotional Violence
- Controlling and coercive
- Stalking & Cyber Stalking
Types of Abuse
Counselor's Insight
Controlling And Coercive Violence
•Isolating a person from their friends or families.
•Monitoring the person, their time, activities
•Taking control over their everyday life, such as where they can go, whom they can see, what they can wear.
• Repeatedly putting them down
• Control over their finances
"We always heard these experiences but never considered as a form of abuse"
Therapist Reflection
Controlling and Coercive violence
- Was able to notice it in subtle ways in clients relationship.
- Was able to notice it in client's families and environment.
Trauma
- Multi-generational Trauma
- Lifetime trauma
- PTSD
- Secondary Victimisation
Generational trauma "Helped counselor's see violence as a systemic issue"
Counselor's response
Lifetime trauma "We would never bother asking about childhood, now it helps create a treatment plan"
- minimal awareness
- Found it difficult to understand concept of triggers
PTSD
Secondary Victimsation
"we would push them to speak, thinking they are scared" - Counselors
Secondary
Victimisation
Got clearer understanding of physiological symptoms - Therapist
What does counselor's think about Sexual assualt.
- Women or children wearing short dresses, sleeveless or no dupatta provoke men to behave badly.
- She was sexually assaulted because she went out partying alone at night- it was her fault!
- Once a woman gives consent for kissing or touching her breast, she cannot object if the man does more.
- Married woman can never say that their husband raped them.
- Sex workers cannot complain of being sexually assualted- it’s their job.
Sexual Violence
Therapist Experience
Therapist Reflection
- Challenging to have an empathetic, understanding stance towards responses
- Ended up feeling dissaponted and angry
Common v/s Severe mental disorders
Mental Disorders
- Challenges understanding severity of common mental disorders.
- Lack of awareness of impact of medication on common mental disorders
- Dissociation ( had to remove to avoid confusion)
- Lack of Awareness of Referral
Suicide and Self harm
- Would try and make the client realise why they should live
" you should think about your kids"
- Concept of Ambivalence; ways to elicit it was very helpful.
- Found it challenging to not get too involved in cases related to suicide
Joint Session
- In case of situation with the perpetrator/family is also present in OSC.
- Imp to differentiate with couple therapy. Not here to find solution.
- Tendecy for the counselors to make the perpetrator feel guilty, blamed.
- Focusing on finding ways to stop violence.
- Threat to the safety of counselors.
- Importance of Signed contract
- Counselors discresion
Tele - Counseling
Tele-Counseling
- Times when women isn't allowed to leave
- Issues related to old age
- Agenda : Provide crisis assistance
- Safety beh - changing name of number, pre-decided code words, delete call logs, never call back.
Dilemma's
- Confidentiality
- In situations counseling known person.
- Dilemma when the girl is evidently lying about her abuse.
- Transference and countertransference; boundaries.
- In case of girl having an extra-dyadic relationship.
- In case of intercaste relationship.
Ethics
Self care challenges
- Counselors come from various socio-economic backgrounds
- Long delays in salary
- Job position - Contractual basis
- Overload of clients and cases
- 24hr- night shift
- They had to work while attending training
Self care
Crisis plan
- Creating a safety bag
- Numbers of Helpline
- Xerox of important docuements
- Collective evidence
- Writing a letter to the women cell
Personal Outcome
- Spent 10 months reading and researching in area of Gender based violence.
- Proficieny in langauge
- Ability to facilitate groups
- Practice of explaining difficult concepts in simple language
- More applicability in therapy
- Developed interest in GBV
- Learn't managing time in sessions.
Trainers
Challenges
- Biased with some states
- Monotony would reduce efficacy of training
- Biases about certain topics
- Aversion towards any experiences/ stories of GBV
- Low tolerance towards issues related to gender outside work
- Phases of burn out ; exhaustion
- Helplessness and frustration
Challenges
Team
Dr. Prabha chandra, Dr. Veena Sitaraman, Dr. Kimneihat Elizabeth Vaiphei
Dr Madhuri, Ms. Sampurna
Credits
Remy, Gurinder, Minnu, Neha, Rosina
Shristi, Shwetha