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For those in the helping professions, there is a need to recognize trauma and integrate this knowledge into the work that they do with others. Trauma awareness and trauma-informed care mean being sensitive to how trauma can affect individuals and making this a consideration in how help is provided.
Lori Gill, psychotherapist and CEO of the Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing, presents a dynamic overview of Trauma through this video presentation. Lori provides the fundamental understandings behind trauma and its effects on the body. Viewers learn how the brain responds to a traumatic event and how these reactions manifest themselves in the body. Viewers also learn how to apply appropriate regulating and calming strategies when in a helping role. Lori Gill emphasizes the importance of self-care strategies for distress/crisis call responders and demonstrates what workers can do to build resilience and to be ready to help others.
Glossary:
It was unexpected
‘Trauma is when we have encountered an out of control, frightening experience that has disconnected us from all sense of resourcefulness or safety or coping or love’ Tara Brach 2011
Are there different types of trauma and do people respond differently as a result?
Three main categories of traumatic events can each lead to a different trauma response and respond to a different form of treatment:
Recent acute traumatic events (e.g., car crash, violent assault, etc.)
There are some universal experiences following all forms of trauma, be they experiences of interpersonal violence (sexual, emotional, physical, or verbal abuse perpetrated by another person) or impersonal (accidents, natural disasters, difficult surgical or medical procedures, etc) or experiences of extreme loss.
Physical reactions to trauma might include:
For those in the helping professions, there is a need to recognize trauma and integrate this knowledge into the work that they do with others. Trauma awareness and trauma-informed care mean being sensitive to how trauma can affect individuals and making this a consideration in how help is provided.
Lori Gill, psychotherapist and CEO of the Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing, presents a dynamic overview of Trauma through this video presentation. Lori provides the fundamental understandings behind trauma and its effects on the body. Viewers learn how the brain responds to a traumatic event and how these reactions manifest themselves in the body. Viewers also learn how to apply appropriate regulating and calming strategies when in a helping role. Lori Gill emphasizes the importance of self-care strategies for distress/crisis call responders and demonstrates what workers can do to build resilience and to be ready to help others.
Glossary:
It was unexpected
‘Trauma is when we have encountered an out of control, frightening experience that has disconnected us from all sense of resourcefulness or safety or coping or love’ Tara Brach 2011
Are there different types of trauma and do people respond differently as a result?
Three main categories of traumatic events can each lead to a different trauma response and respond to a different form of treatment:
Recent acute traumatic events (e.g., car crash, violent assault, etc.)
There are some universal experiences following all forms of trauma, be they experiences of interpersonal violence (sexual, emotional, physical, or verbal abuse perpetrated by another person) or impersonal (accidents, natural disasters, difficult surgical or medical procedures, etc) or experiences of extreme loss.
Physical reactions to trauma might include: