What Would Dr. Meyers Do?

What happens when trauma meets trauma? My guest talks about her traumatic past as a victim of severe child abuse and how her resilience and limitations play out in her own work with children of abuse.

Confronting others is often feared and not always pleasant, but it is imperative towards getting our needs met. Dr. Meyers offers an empowering outlook to be able to confront others with success.

A social worker shares her traumatic upbringing and her perseverance. She and Dr. Meyers explore her pull to the helping profession as a result of  impactful life experiences including multiple losses and family secrets. Her own history reveals potential challenges for her work.

Understand the long-lasting emotionally traumatic repercussions for the victim/survivor of childhood and adolescent sibling abuse.

It really does take a village. How did two social workers capitalize on their resources to serve themselves and those they serve?  We all need to be nourished. Your greatest resource begins with you; putting yourself out there and building community to get the fuel you need.

Why is it so challenging to convey empathy and to sit with silence? These seemingly simple offerings to others come weighted with our own discomforts. Learn the value of these experiences and gain insight into your own challenges.

As we strive to help others, we must also contend with our own fears, concerns, and anxieties. Dr. Meyers talks with social work students about how perfectionism and a rigid sense of right and wrong must be restructured so that mistakes are not perceived as failures.

When is it time to end therapy? And whose decision is it? Is the client resistant to the work or has your work been successful? Dr. Meyers challenges her listeners to consider whose need is really being tended to, when the therapist feels the client should stay in treatment.

In the first of a series on Sibling Abuse, Dr. Meyers outlines what exactly sibling abuse is, and what it looks like. Although sibling abuse still remains under the radar, it is the most common form of family violence and extremely damaging. Dr. Meyers’ research on emotional and physical sibling abuse revealed its traumatic impact.

Born and raised in Slovakia with a history of abuse, foster care, gangs, and drugs, Social Worker Tomas and Dr. Meyers explore how his traumatic past and subsequent abandonment issues play out in his work with the homeless population. Does this shared connection help or hinder the clinician-client relationship?