CYC 802 Lecture 3: Incident Response Lecture W3

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Child and Youth Care
• Course: CYC 802
• Professor: Anne Black

Document Summary

Ask stands for attitude, skill, and knowledge. Traumatic experiences are overwhelming, uncontrollable experiences that psychologically impact victims by creating in them feelings of helplessness, vulnerability, loss of safety and loss of control. Trauma is individual; what may traumatize one person may not traumatize another. Psychological pain is not pathology; rather it is the absence of adequate responsiveness to the (cid:272)hild"s e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al rea(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s that renders them unendurable and therefore a source of trauma. Trau(cid:373)a i(cid:374)for(cid:373)ed (cid:272)ari(cid:374)g shifts the (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)ersatio(cid:374) fro(cid:373) aski(cid:374)g (cid:862)(cid:449)hat is (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith (cid:455)ou(cid:863) to (cid:862)(cid:449)hat happe(cid:374)ed to (cid:455)ou(cid:863) Satisfaction derived from cyc practice may be related to providing care/engagement in a relationship, the system they work within, colleagues, beliefs about self, etc. Dissatisfaction derived from cyc practice may be related to the same aspects of the field. Empathy is needed to care for traumatized youth but over-identifying can place one at risk for internalization.