CONF 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Richard Rohr, Limbic System, Cerebral Cortex
29 Mar 2017
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Can be psychological or physical harm caused to a person. Anyone can experience trauma from everyday life to a large event. Trauma is often the elephant in the room for individuals, or groups. When traumatic events happen, we stand at a crossroad carolyn yoder. Trauma is a call to change and transformation. Star- strategies for trauma awareness and resilience was created after the events of 9/11. Used to describe experiences or situations that are emotionally painful and distressing, and that overwhelms people"s ability to cope, leaving them powerless. Individual trauma: witnessing a serous car accident and/or physical abuse. Ongoing and structural trauma: not all trauma is induced by a single dramatic event that are outside the normal range of human experience (ongoing civil war or poverty, hurricane ) Societal or collective trauma: when trauma affect large groups of people, witnessing event.
