CYC 802 Chapter Notes - Chapter Articles: Organisation Climate, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Countertransference
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Honouring the wounded: inviting in our successes and mistakes by vachon. Article about what the impact of people from the system working in the system will be on the field and on the youth. Use of the myth of chiron to explain the wounded healer; chiron was able to help others heal their wounds but was never able to heal his own. Sometimes people with their own wounds work to heal others, use their past difficult experiences in their work, use of personal experience to relate to youth, seek out their own cures and therefore learn to effectively heal others. 30% of staff in nyc child welfare agency reported childhood emotional abuse; alcohol abuse higher in families of social work students compared to business; before age 16. 66% of female therapists experienced physical or sexual abuse, hospitalization of parent for mental illness, death of family member, or parent alcoholism.