...Part A: Policy Review Download the draft Organisational Trauma Informed policy from the following website: http://mob.mhcc.org.au/media/7241/diversity_-_trauma_informed_care_and_practice_policy_20150609.pdf and then answer the following questions: 1. In your own words, explain the eight foundational principles of trauma informed care outlined in this document? The eight foundational principles of trauma-informed care in my words are 1. Safety – physical, emotional, and cultural safety for organizations, staff, and clients is the key to trauma-informed practice. 2. What is the difference between a'smart' and a'smart'? Trustworthiness and transparency – building trust is the foundation to being trauma-informed. 3. What is the difference between...
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...Solutions Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) as a therapeutic intervention which could be effectively employed with both my short-term and long-term clients. Although I had learned about SFBT through a course which indicated that it could be used with aging adults, I wanted to ensure that it would be an evidence-based practice for both the short-term and long-term clients in my facility. I turned to the University of Denver (DU) library to help me locate books and peer-reviewed articles which could help me ascertain the...
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...The phenomenon of interest (birth trauma and what it means to women) was clearly identified in the report. In the introduction the authors stated that women’s perception of birth trauma is quite different from the perception of the same phenomenon by health care providers. She also uses a term “in the eyes of the beholder” to emphasize that for every woman this phenomenon is unique. It is stated that PTSD after childbirth is quite prevalent and several studies support this fact. However, research is regarding the understanding of the birth trauma phenomenon from the woman’s experience lacking. The problem statement was worded clearly and directly and I wasn’t ambivalent about what problem will be discussed in the remainder of the article. Due to a lack of current literature on the subject and prevalence of PTSD after childbirth one can see the value in conducting such a study and the potential benefit to the profession of nursing. By understanding the perception of birth trauma to women, we as nurses will be able to facilitate better care, improve patients’ experience with childbirth, and prevent PTSD associated with childbirth. The methods used are not mentioned in the first paragraph but in a separate section following the research question where they are outlined clearly. The method of interviewing participants in focus groups is consistent with the naturalistic paradigm of qualitative research. The researcher clearly explained the reason behind choosing a qualitative...
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...Having Sharease stay longer allows for Patty to monitor her behaviors and request further testing. This allows for Patty to act on behalf of Sharease if she determines that she is not capable of making an informed decision. Patty is able to take reasonable steps to make sure that Sharease is safe and reaches a point of stabilization. A disadvantage of the strategy is that Sharease may refuse Patty's suggestion to speak on her behalf and may still decide to still...
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...Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Psychological "trauma" is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as an experience beyond "the range of usual human experience," that "would be markedly distressing to almost anyone, and is usually experienced with intense fear, terror and helplessness" (DSM-IIIR, p. 247). Examples include a serious threat to one's life (or that of one's children, spouse, etc.), rape, military combat, natural or accidental disasters, and torture. Sexual activity with an adult is a traumatic experience for a child.Like adults who experience trauma, children and adolescents who have been abused cope by using a variety of psychological mechanisms. One of the most effective ways people cope with overwhelming trauma is called "dissociation." Dissociation is a complex mental process during which there is a change in a person's consciousness which disturbs the normally connected functions of identity, memory, thoughts, feelings and experiences (daydreaming during a boring lecture is a good example).How does trauma affect memory?People may use their natural ability to dissociate to avoid conscious awareness of a traumatic experience while the trauma is occurring. For some people, conscious thoughts and feelings, or "memories," about the overwhelming traumatic circumstance may emerge at a later date. This delayed retrieval of traumatic memories has been written about for nearly 100 years in clinical literature on military veterans who have survived combat.In fact...
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...Introduction The purpose of this report is to discuss the role social work practice can play in struggles over inequality and social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) people. From day one, white man set foot on Australian soil, ‘invasion day’, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) peoples have endured multi-levels of inequality and social injustices. This report will examine one policy, social workers had a direct hand in enforcing, and the repercussions of the ATSI community from this and how it affects the way social workers, work with the community today. Analysis The first social injustice faced by ATSI peoples was the British terming the land ‘terra nullius”, meaning ‘nobody’s land’ (Bennett et al 2013,...
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...Trauma, Development, and Spirituality According to the American Association of Children’s Residential Centers (AACRC), trauma is considered to be the result of occurrences of mental or physical injury such as sexual or physical abuse sexual abuse, seeing brutality, or natural tragedy (AACRC, 2014). But trauma is not limited to events per se; alternatively, trauma can also be brought about by occurrences of daily living that are emotional in nature and not quite as obvious. Traumatic stress can be evoked by trials surrounding relationships, physical issues, severe neglect, or by circumstances that overpower a person’s ability to adjust (American Association of Children’s Residential Centers, 2014). This essay will discuss how culture can influence traumatic experiences, the impact of trauma on neurobiological development, and how spiritual development can counter the effects of trauma. Cross Cultural View of Trauma Research conducted in Western countries has typically revealed a disproportionately large percentage of accounts of abuse of children among ethnic minority groups. However, mistreatment is not primarily connected to any particular ethnic group, but has been regarded as a global issue (World Health Organization [WHO], 2002 as cited by Cyr, Michel, & Dumais, 2013). The intricacy of examining child abuse from a culturally diverse viewpoint can be made clear by a number of components impeding the progress of awareness about this issue. Specifically, despite the fact...
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...In this essay, I [avoid personal pronouns in academic writing] would like to put on the Agenda the issue of ‘Hoarding and Squalor’ so as to bring awareness on the impact of this condition on the individual, families and the wider community. I analyse the issue of ‘Hoarding and Squalor’ by using existing evidence anecdotal evidence through studies on the impact and consequences this issue at micro and macro level. Further I will demonstrate the associated current social policies around this problem by incorporating a combination of techniques with the aim of advocating for better supports and systems. My overall aim is to bring about a change, in particular around three goals. These goals are inclusive of Social Policy review, multi-agency approach and trans-disciplinary delivery, funding request from the State Government in particular Families and Communities Services (FACs) and Mental Health in order to work with families in a person [spelling error] cent[e]red, strength based manner to ensure sustainable results. I incorporate Jansson’s steps of, diagnosing the context to identify contextual constraints and opportunities, softening the context to make it more amenable to a specific policy initiative and lastly activating change to get a decision maker or legislator to put an issue on the agenda of the other decision makers in the agency, community or legislative setting. (Jansson, 2003, pp. 148-165). Diagnosing Context What is Hoarding and Squalor In May 2013, for...
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...Furthermore, we must prepare our organizations in a manner that reflects that we intend to be informed and equipped to provide them culturally sensitive services. One manner in which to accomplish this is by being educated on the proper terminology, and interventions that will create a respectful dialogue with the youth. Professionals must be aware of the proper identity terminology and, gender spectrums associated with LGBT youth so as not to create a disconnect (Hulstein, 2012). We can begin by modifying the way we facilitating intakes. By doing so we can ensure that we address them with respect to their individuality and ask ourselves the question: How do I become an ally? This will begin a healthy dialogue and, open the door to a more culturally sensitive approach with veneration to the diversity of an LGBT youth’s...
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...Rule out diagnoses or differential diagnoses are diagnoses that appear to share similar symptoms as the one that is being used for the client. Erika’s diagnosis is PTSD. Differential diagnosis are any other trauma-and-stressor related disorders such as adjustment disorder, and acute stress disorder. Acute stress disorder is differentiated from PTSD due to Acute Stress Disorder has a duration of three days to one month. Anxiety disorders such General Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Agoraphobia, Social Anxiety, and Specific Phobias can appear like some of the avoidant symptoms in PTSD, and the desire for things to be done in a certain order. OCD can appear like PTSD due to the presence of intrusive thoughts, but the thoughts usually are not due to a traumatic event and such is the same with any other anxiety disorder. Major Depression Disorder (MDD) can sometimes be diagnosed along with PTSD as the symptoms of PTSD may cause eventual depression but MDD lacks criterion C and D of PTSD. PTSD can also present like psychotic symptoms so differential diagnosis may be Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and...
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...American Psychology Association Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy (2011) Marian Reiff, Dorothy, M. Castille, KristinaMuenzenmaier, & Bruce Link Topic of the study: Childhood Abuse and the Content of Adult Psychotic Symptom Fathimath Shafa (3249) Abnormal Psychology -PSYCHOLOGY 4501 Missouri University of Science and Technology Dr. Mojgan Shadbash Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, Germany 1. Introduction Childhood sexual abuse and childhood physical abuse have been regarded as to cause psychotic symptoms or schizophrenia. The symptoms of previous trauma starts to display in adulthood. This particular research explores the connection between childhood abuse and the content of adult psychotic symptoms. The researcher managed to explain this relationship in multiple pathways despite the complexity of the body. About 54% of the schizophrenic patients reported having sexually abused during childhood and it is important to know how the psychotic symptoms might be related to early traumatic events considering the high prevalence rate. This research accommodates some of the other researches done on this area, in one of the research, they have mentioned specific approaches that were used to investigate the association between psychotic symptoms and the two subjects. Psychotic symptoms have been linked to range of severe experiences of childhood sexual abuse such ass malevolence, sexual themes, and olfactory sensations. Moreover, it contains...
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...Suppositions I have chosen to examine the following two suppositions: trauma as a major cause of addiction and the War on Drugs as an abject failure. I decided to discuss these suppositions because I have worked with several clients diagnosed with substance use disorders that report extensive histories of primary and secondary trauma. Many of the clients had similar stories to that of some of the Edgewater homeless that they grew up in environments where drugs, alcohol, and sex work were present on a daily basis. I decided to discuss the War on Drugs an an abject failure because as an African American, I see how the War on Drugs has disproportionately impacted the African American population in such a negative way. I am also eager to gain...
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...“Mr. Ravioli” Summary In “Bumping into Mr. Ravioli,” author Adam Gopnick, a New Yorker at the turn of the twenty first century, argues about how busy and hectic our lives as adults have become in today’s society through, ironically, the reflection of his child’s paracosm of adult relationships. He begins with detailing that Mr. Ravioli, Gopnik’s daughter’s imaginary friend, is already much too busy to play with her; the friend is always either at work or on the way to an prior planned engagement he almost always could not break. In an effort to mediate any, what seemed, to be a sign of trauma, Gopnik consults his sister, that had just been published in that specific study of children and their imaginary friend. She informed him repeatedly that this was a normal tendency of children and not any kind of trauma indicator. Gopnik goes on to try and find the root influence of the child’s friend. He realizes that it is a mere reflection through the eyes of a child of the relationships everyone part takes in today: her Paracosm. He begins to highlight how progression in technology may have entered us into the social network age; but we have strayed so far away from being social-able with how busy we have become progressing ourselves into the future. He also realizes that he is not too different from his daughter in that his relationships with his friends consist of the same faults he saw in Mr. Ravioli and his daughter’s relationship. He seemed to imply that all humans in today’s...
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...(NHSE 1991) and the compliance of junior doctors working hours from the European Working Time Directive which reduced the maximum hours a junior doctor can work each week and therefore created a massive hole that the NHS needed to fill. The publication of the document The Scope of Practice (UKCC1992) recognised that nurses could expand their roles through further education and training, and undertake roles that were once the domain of junior doctors. It wasn’t until 1999 when the Department of Health published Making a Difference (DoH1999)which identified the contribution of nurses to the health care team, but then further identified that nurses could expand and develop new roles to improve patient care and services. The Department of Health published a further document NHS Plan (2000) which included the Chief Nursing Officers 10 key roles which advocated the ability of nurses to order diagnostic tests, perform minor surgery, run outpatient clinics, and to admit and discharge patients from their work load. These are key roles of the surgical care practitioner. The Royal College of Surgeons of England published Developing a Modern Surgical Workforce (RCS Eng 2005) identified that modern surgical practices required multi-professional team working and also identified that Non- Qualified Medical Practitioners (NQMP) would become permanent members of the surgical team. The role of the Surgical Care Practitioner is encompassed...
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...Football Tragedies It's been proven that American Football is a dangerous sport because of an impact a football player gets in only one hit. Also, because of the concussions a football player gets can cause brain damage. There is a 99% chance of a NFL player to get the common disease called Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). This disease is caused by all the head trauma a player gets from playing the sport. I believe a football player knows what is ahead of his future, but does not really care about dying with a disease because this is their passion and they are willing to die doing what they love the most. For the most part this is something that should be talked about because many parents who put their child in football at a young age don't know what their child will be diagnosed with CTE. Me as a mother, I would not allow my child to be a football player because what type of mother will put their child in a situation like this knowing what the consequences will be when they are grown adults. Football is a dangerous sport at any age when you are out on the field whether you are doing it professionally or throughout your life on a...
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