Oakland, CA, trying out model used in Baltimore to reduce trauma, increase resilience – ACEs Connection – Community organizations in Baltimore came together in 2015 to build community resilience. Trauma figured large in many lives: violence in the community, in schools, and in homes; police brutality; loss of loved ones to incarceration or death; house fires; and homelessness. Much of the dysfunction was systemic and rooted in racism.
Most Treatments for Childhood PTSD Don't Work. Here's What Does. – ACEs Connection – There are millions of adults who grew up affected by traumatic experiences during your childhood, you may have tried therapies that promised to help you calm your emotions, change your thinking, and respond to stress like normal people do, and this video offers a sneak peek into a technique developed by Anna Runkle.
Building Strength And Resilience After A Sexual Assault: What Works - NPR – Emily R. Dworkin, a senior fellow at the University Of Washington School Of Medicine in Seattle, studies how the social interactions of trauma survivors can affect their recovery. She was also the lead author of a paper published in the journal Clinical Psychology Review in 2017 that looked through more than 100,000 studies conducted in the last 50 years and found nearly 200 relevant ones on the relationship between sexual assault and mental health to analyze.
Getting Help After Trauma: Is My Family Ready? - NCTSN – Network members, The Center for Resilient Families at the University of Minnesota and the FITT Center at the University of Maryland, have designed a brief worksheet to help families examine their readiness for trauma counseling. The worksheet leads caregivers/families through three steps: (1) exploring common concerns about counseling; (2) considering the outcomes of seeing a counselor; and (3) finding the right counselor for your family. Included in the worksheet are NCTSN resources for parents and caregivers on when and how to find a mental health provider and evidence-based treatment practices.
ACEs and Resiliency Fellows... bringing NEAR Science to SD communities, AcesConnection.com-A woman discusses how once she accepted a fellowship in the field of trauma, she could never see the world through the same lens again. The field of trauma is becoming harder in the sense that clients’ needs are becoming greater while the resources are decreasing in availability. It is important to bring up resilient children since trauma can so easily be passed down in generations. Anyone who interacts with humans in their day to day life needs the training. If the hyperlink does not work, please copy and paste this link into your browser http://www.acesconnection.com/blog/aces-and-resiliency-fellows-bringing-near-science-to-sd-communities
What are the Effective Strategies for Implementing Trauma-Informed Care in Youth Inpatient Psychiatric and Residential Treatment Settings? A Realist Systematic Review, BioMedCentral.com -- Often, psychiatric care in inpatient or resident settings can exacerbate trauma sequelae through practices like seclusion and restraint and put individuals at risk of retraumatization, development of comorbid psychopathology, injury, and death. Because of these risks, many psychiatric facilities have adopted trauma-informed care which aligns service delivery with treatment principles and interventions designed to minimize retraumatization. The authors conducted a five-stage realist systematic review of peer-reviewed trauma-informed care literature and found that five factors including senior leadership commitment, sufficient staff support, amplifying the voices of patients and families, aligning policy and programming with trauma-informed principles and using data to help motivate change were instrumental in the implementation of trauma informed care.
Caregiver experiences of public services following child trauma exposure: a qualitative study, IJMHS.com -- Three themes were identified regarding caregivers’ perceptions of interactions with public services post-trauma. The key themes identified related to (1) communication and exchanges with law enforcement, (2) consequences of an under-resourced justice system and (3) importance of communication and empathy in the healthcare system.
It’s Official-Ace Overcomers Demonstrate Evidence-Based Effectiveness,AcesConnection.com-The ACE Overcomers Program addresses the need for interventions in those who have experienced ACES (adverse childhood experiences) and have consequences. There are both a secular and religious version of this program, both are 12 weeks of two-hour sessions. The program provides direct evidence for improving emotion regulation skills, psychological resilience and well-being, quality of life, illness days, and somatic symptoms of ACES victims. If the hyperlink does not work, please copy and paste this link into your browser. https://www.acesconnection.com/blog/it-s-official-ace-overcomers-demonstrates-evidence-based-effectiveness
How Compassion Can Triumph Over Toxic Childhood Trauma, MedicalXpress.com – Findings from a study suggest that when mothers who have experienced ACEs feel supported by people around them, their risk of having pregnancy complications is substantially reduced. Without support from friends and family, children born to mothers with ACEs are at risk of developmental delay with an 18% increase in risk that their child will be identified as delayed with each additional maternal ACE.
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