"... patients are experiencing re-traumatization in acute mental health inpatient settings and that there is little being done to prevent it from occurring."
Psychological trauma is at the heart of any post-earthquake situation. Therefore, general psychological tools will have a very limited impact.
The primary goal is to prevent and reduce symptoms of acute or chronic post-traumatic stress, such as flashbacks, intrusive memories, nightmares, panic attacks, self-harm, and more. Often, emotional stabilization is all that is needed.
Without emotional stabilization, any meaningful healing of major emotional wounds is impossible.
For historical reasons, psychological schools of thought have become schools in the entrepreneurial sense. Maintaining systems of thought has, in my opinion, in most cases become more important than adapting to ideas that "just work" in the interest...
Lie of the century: "I promise it will help to talk about it." Well, that's a particularly cynical one. You can only come up with that if you have absolutely no idea what trauma-informed care is.
The Emotional Structure is where the therapeutic intention must be directed. If we change our or someone's Emotional Structure, a change in emotional experience and behavior will automatically follow.
A concept that describes the degree to which a person does respond to a stimulus(1) by experiencing an associated emotion(2) AND with an intensity that most people(3) would experience …
We are used to using numbers to establish authority. How many apps were downloaded, how many people were reached. But we glorify the wrong things.
We are used to using numbers to establish authority. How many apps were downloaded, how many people were reached. But we glorify the wrong things.
