Health Sciences 4092F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mental Health Professional, Major Trauma, Intersectionality
12 Apr 2021
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Trauma outside the box: how the trauma-informed" trend falls short : the reality of mental health agencies and practitioners becoming trauma-informed is far from ideal. Trauma-informed is that old formulas simply get re-mixed with all the trauma ingredients and checkboxes and with none of the actual meaning. It becomes yet another way to advance one"s career and feel good about oneself while pretty much doing nothing different. Dictates understandable vs. not-understandable ways of reacting to stress: even if a person is lucky enough to have their life experiences recognized and validated, there still is the problem of what is acceptable in response to such experiences. If a person can articulate his/her fear as directly related to the identifiable event that a mental health professional deems bad enough to warrant a distressed response, then it. Trauma-informed care lecture 1 notes from readings: especially if imposing on someone.
