The Trauma-Informed SLP

The Trauma-Informed SLP

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  • Signs of dehumanization: TTI-SLP response to The Telepathy Tapes

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    There are many, MANY redflags in this rhetoric, so let's unpack them.

    Episode topics include:

    • Who are the creators of the podcast?
    • The "superpower" flavor of dehumanization
    • Alternative explanations for what people see
    • Playing Devil's Advocate: If all their claims are true, what does it really change?

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      Citations:

      Disability tropes in fiction

      Eariler Jilani article on the communication methodology

      Facilitated Communication information and citations

      Inspiration porn

      Magical minoritized person trope

      Moral model of disability

      The Telepathy Tapes: A Dangerous Cornucopia of Pseudoscience

      "The Telepathy Tapes" Has Close Ties to Vaccine Skeptic Movement (by Zaid Jilani)

      Telepathy Tapes transcripts

      1 hr
    • Facing the monster | The 10 stages of genocide

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      So here's something from my Youtube page that, in light of the 2024 election cycle, I thought would be good to post here. Genocide always seems like hyperbole...until it's not.

      (The video includes images of referenced articles and quotes, so if you benefit from seeing the text on-screen, please check out the link below.)

      Description from Youtube episode released May 29, 2024:

      I'm not a political commentator. In fact, I can only consume so much of the news cycle every week before my feelings of helplessness and hopelessness get too overwhelming.

      Looking at all the atrocities humans have done and are currently doing to each other is so, so heartbreaking -- and honestly, traumatizing. However, you've got to understand the monstrous side of humanity in order to continuously choose compassion and empathy.

      And, I don't know, maybe it's my neurodivergent brain, but having some academic knowledge helps me to understand and avoid (as much as humanly possible) the propaganda pitfalls that permeate social discourse these days.

      REFERENCES & RESOURCES:
      https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/disaster-distress-helpline

      PDF of Ten Stages of Genocide: https://www.scasd.org/cms/lib5/PA01000006/Centricity/Domain/1482/TenStages.pdf

      Ten Stages of American Indian Genocide (Chavez Cameron & Phan, 2018) file:///Users/Kimbrulee/Downloads/webmaster,+Edit3+Cameron.pdf

      Link to James Baldwin quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11882302-love-has-never-been-a-popular-movement-and-no-one-s

      United Nations on how to help ALL victims of the Israel-Gaza Crisis: https://www.un.org/en/situation-in-occupied-palestine-and-israel/donate

      32 min
    • RE-RELEASE: "You've got that upsetting feeling" | bottom-up emotional processing

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      Topics covered:

      • Updated episode intro ends around 8:00 (in light of the 2024 U.S. election cycle)
      • Strategies (and I've time marks included below if you're wanting to find specific ones quickly)
        • Intro to strategies starts near 13:40
        • Physiological needs starts near 14:50
        • Calming strategies starts near 17:50
        • "Burning up energy stores" starts near 26:50
        • What bottom-up processing is
        • Reframing our definition of emotions as signals instead of "good" or "bad"

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            • Referenced links:

            Autism Level Up!

            Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

            Butterfly Hug

            Tactile/breathing exercises

            Progressive muscle relaxation

            Destini Ann, "Big Mad," on TikTok

            44 min
          • Burnout series episode 4: Strategies that actually help

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            So you've tried all the burnout strategies you can find: Mindfulness, eating better, exercising, goign to bed early ...aaaannnnnd they didn't work. Guess you'll just stay burned out forever, right? Not necessarily...

            The stuff that really works to help with burnout (and trauma responses) are just not as pithy, toxic-positivity-y, and clickbait-y as the stuff we tend to hear the most about. Not that those things aren't useful for healing, mental health, and recovery...just that complex problems often require complex solutions and burnout? It's complicated, BABYYYY!!!!

            TOPICS COVERED:

            • The issue with "typical" strategies
            • The ONE strategy we could all use more of
            • Strategies for emotional processing (bottom-up)
            • "Small" strategies that can have a big impact
            • A rough burnout series summary

              • Youtube video of this episode

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                  • CITATIONS

                  • Maslach & Lieter, 2016
                  • van Dernoot Lipsky & Burke, 2009
                  • Butterfly Hug instructions
                  • Bottom-up processing examples
                  • Jacob & Lambert, 2021 (protected processing time example)
                  • Ellis, W. R., & Dietz, W. H. (2017)
                  • Gill, L. (2017).
                  • Finding community: Volpe, 2022
                  • McMillan, 1986 for a sense of community definition and theory
                    • 39 min
                  • Burnout series episode 3: Secondary traumatic stress

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                    Episode 3 is finally here! On this episode, we talk about secondary traumatic stress (STS), a.k.a vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, trauma exposure, etc... This is the meat...the "entrée" (if you will)...of the series because I think that the impact of being exposed to other peoples' trauma is a lot more prevalent than we tend to think. And it's what gets confounded with burnout the most.

                    TOPICS COVERED:

                    • What STS is
                    • Where STS comes from
                    • Symptom clusters of STS

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                          • Citations: (I am unaffiliated with all links below)

                          • Cieslak et al., 2014
                          • TIP 57
                          • Shoji et al., 2015
                          • Bride et al., 2004
                          • Judith Herman, "...trauma is an affliction of the powerless"
                            • 28 min
                          • Meltdowns vs tantrums: Does it actually matter what makes a person upset?

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                            One little thread on r/slp made me think of three major things that are part of how I process and do neurodivergent-affirming care in the case of emotional dysregulation. So I made a really informal video (using my front cam on my Macbook, so apologies for the quality) to address those things.

                            Outline:
                            1) Definition of dysregulation, it's over-use, and contrasting it with emotional upset.
                            2) Putting more effort into thinking through possible reasons for meltdowns/tantrums/emotional upset vs. trying to figure out which one it is -- and why this is important for child safety.
                            3) All behavior isn't intentional communication, but it can be information: Pro-tip for thinking of AT LEAST THREE possible reasons for the meltdown/upset/tantrum behavior.

                            Citations:
                            -Reddit thread: https://bit.ly/4gFrtTd

                            - Destini Ann: https://www.destiniann.com/epk

                            -Psychology Today article on emotional dysregulation: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/click-here-for-happiness/202108/what-is-emotional-dysregulation

                            -Quinones et al, 2020: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7682894/

                            -Quote: "Trauma is an affliction of the powerless" is by Judith Herman: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/530025-trauma-and-recovery

                             

                            48 min
                          • Burnout series episode 2: Primary trauma from the workplace

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                            Part 2 is finally here!! (Whew!) On this episode, we go over both systemic and interpersonal/relationship things in the workplace itself that can contribute to traumatizing experiences for employees.

                            TOPICS COVERED:

                            • Reviewing what trauma really means (like physiologically)
                            • Systemic issues re: Conservation of Resources, scarcity mentality, and organizational dehumanization
                            • Interpersonal issues: Workplace bullying and gaslighting

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                                  • CITATIONS: (TTI-SLP is unaffiliated with all links below)

                                  • Cieslak et al., 2014
                                  • TIP 57
                                  • Shoji et al., 2015
                                  • Hobfoll et al., 2018
                                  • Van Dernoot Lipsky & Burke, 2009
                                  • Lagios et al., 2021
                                  • List of workplace harassment types
                                  • Neilsen et al., 2015
                                  • Workplace bullying survey
                                  • Wilson, 2021
                                  • Ahern, 2018
                                    • 1 hr 2 min
                                  • Burnout series (ep 1): What even IS burnout?

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                                    Burnout. It seems like everyone has it! (*insert Oprah meme here* "YOU get burnout and YOU get burnout and YOU get burnout! EVERYONE GETS BURNOOOOOOUUT!!!!!") But what really is burnout? And why do so many people suffer from it?

                                    This is the first in a series of episodes on this big, complex monster-of-a-thing we call "burnout." I’m hoping this series will help you figure out what you need to start healing from your own burnout.

                                    In this video, you’ll discover:

                                    • What burnout is (and why it feels like you're running on empty)
                                    • The top culprits behind burnout
                                    • How taking a break and/or “quiet quitting” ISN’T laziness: Rest and recuperation is a vital part of health

                                      • Future videos will include:

                                      • Confounding factors that contribute to (or maybe come from) burnout
                                      • The issues with self-care hacks and strategies that make up the bulk of burnout content
                                      • The relationship between autistic burnout / ADHD burnout and professional burn out
                                      • How burnout can relate to systemic oppression.

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                                            • Article links/references:

                                            - Hillert, A., Albrecht, A., & Voderholzer, U. (2020) https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/...

                                            - Cieslak et al. (2014): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23937...

                                            - Maslach & Leiter (2016): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

                                            - Jeung, D. Y., Kim, C., & Chang, S. J. (2018): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

                                            - Kim, J. S. (2020): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31758...

                                            - Nguyen, N., & Stinglhamber, F. (2020): https://rb.gy/kv45rr

                                            - Lampert, B., Unterrainer, C., & Seubert, C. T. (2019): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...

                                            - Christoff, K. (2014): https://www.christofflab.ca/wp-conten...

                                            51 min
                                          • Proposal: New labels for The Neurodivergent Movement re: social adversity

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                                            So, I talked about this at my ASHA 2023 talk, made an image carousel on Instagram, and did rambly Youtube video on this, but figured I'd do a quick podcast ep on this as well, cause I've found myself using these terms more and more these days and, well, I just think it's good to clarify when we're talking about societal/social adversity vs. individual neurodivergent profiles.

                                            References and Resources:

                                            • Disability:In on apparent vs. non-apparent diabilities
                                            • My insta reel, FB post, and Youtube Vid on this
                                            • My source of definitions for medical model of disability vs. social model of disability
                                              • NOTE: Different from pathogenic vs. salutogenic approaches.
                                              • My systemic vs. individual adversity podcast episode
                                              • My episode on fight, flight, and freeze (with reference to fawn response)
                                              • Literature on minority stress model 
                                                • For how it pertains to autistics, see here.
                                                • Definition of hemiparesis

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                                                    • 32 min
                                                  • A brief announcement: Where the heck have I been???

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                                                    Just thought I'd put out a little update on what I've been up to and what I have planned in the works.

                                                    Feel free to check out my new(ish) Youtube channel here!

                                                    And I also have a new look for my website if ya want to check that out.

                                                     

                                                    Feel free to email me with any ideas and/or topics you'd like to hear my viewpoints on or have me do a research deep-dive into!

                                                    8 min

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                                                  A professional podcast discussing the journey of how to become trauma-informed and how to apply trauma-informed care in the field of speech-language pathology (SLP).