Transforming Trauma

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Transforming Trauma Valerie DeVille LMHC Director of Therapy Betty Griffin House 904-540-2840 [email protected]

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Objectives  Identify

the impact of trauma on survivors

 Address

the traumatic aspects of the experience as viewed by the survivor

 Assist

survivors of trauma to reclaim their power and sense of connection to others and themselves

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A Story Group done at the Victim Center

Disclaimer: One size Does NOT fit all!

**Remember: Recent memory = Recent trauma

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Exploring the make up of trauma 

Trauma and the brain



Hard wired responses to trauma

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Stuck in Fight/ Flight  Hyperarousal    

symptoms:

Difficulty sleeping Hyper vigilance Nightmares Flashbacks

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Stuck in Freeze  Avoidance 

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Numb, reports as if it happened to someone else Actual avoidance Dissociation Body Sensations that mirror event

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Experience  Choose

a partner

 Choose

a small t trauma  Draw your trauma using the pieces of the ITR  Tell

your partner about your trauma and your pictures

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Examining the demographics of a trauma 

Looking at the trauma piece by piece



Parts of the self in response

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Working with the memory (without retraumatizing)  Telling

the story while staying in the here and now Example exercise.

 Visualization

and the Healing Narrative

Example.

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Questions/ Comments

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Resources 





Gantt, L.M. & Tinnin, L.W. The instinctual trauma response. In D. B. Arrington (Ed.), Art, angst, and trauma: Right brain intervention with developmental issues, (pp. 168-174). Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 2007. Lewis, Robert. (2007) Robert Scaer’s Neurobiological Model for PTSD and Psychosomatic Illness. World Wide Web Site. http://www.bodymindcentral.com/pdf/pubs/Lewis Pub_Scaer_PTSD.pdf. Scaer, Robert. (2011) The Dissociation Capsule. World Wide Web Site. http://www.traumasoma.com/apa_review.html.

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Resources (Cont.) 







Schwartz, R. (2011) The Larger Self. World Wide Web Site. http://web.selfleadership.org/the-larger-self.html. Tinnin, L. (1990) Mental unity, altered states of consciousness and dissociation. Dissociation. 3:3, 154-160. Terr, Lenore. (1992) Too Scared To Cry: Psychic Trauma In Childhood New York: Basic Books. Van der Kolk, B. & van der Hart, O. (1991) The intrusive past: The flexibility of memory and the engraving of trauma. American Imago. 48(4) 425-454.

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