The assignment objective is to review a pre-existing local or national program d

The assignment objective is to review a pre-existing local
or national program designed for treating a specific type of trauma.
CHOSEN PROGRAM: https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/programs/project-odyssey
The description of the program will include references and citations in
each of the following sections:
1. Overview of the trauma topic and experience.
Who are the survivors of this trauma? What have they
experienced? Why do they need this program? How does this
program treat trauma systemically? Rationale for a systemic
approach that involves family or social network outside of the
program.
2. Overview of the program.
What model or theoretical approaches does the program use
(examples: CBT, SFBT, EMDR, CAMS, FOCUS, ect.)? How does
the program achieve cultural/gender relevance for a diverse
group? How does family or social network (friends, extended
kin, peers) participate? What assessments are used to collect
information on the participants (screening)? What are the goals
of this program? How are those goals measured?
3. What stages does the program involve? Briefly describe each of the following (do not format as a list).
Within each stage, describe the specific approaches and procedures for crisis or trauma intervention. Do not attempt to regiment or mandate a “one size-fits-all” approach. How does the program individualize treatment for each person? What interventions empower participants to design their own journey? For example, if immediate family is not available, what extended family or community can become part of a person’s team?
4. What training do practitioners receive on how to provide extensive empathy in crisis or trauma intervention. Describe the attitudes and skills needed to achieve biopsychosocial empathy.
This module looks at specific symptoms of trauma that become the focus of many types of trauma treatments. As you prepare your signature assignment, think about the role of empathy and “biological empathy” in understanding dissociation and shame. Because your signature assignment has elements of macro and micro approaches to the treatment of trauma, it is wise to consider how you might organize a program or critique an existing program. For example, at the micro level, does the program address the symptoms of dissociation and shame? This might be addressed in the section on empathy. At the macro level, is the program organized around stages of the process or larger systems that need to be involved?
The following summary of a crisis intervention program is one example of a program that is organized around stages. Also, the CAMS approach to suicide is an example of a program that organizes outside systems.
Use Roberts’ Seven-Stage Crisis Intervention Model
There are seven critical stages through which clients typically pass on the road to crisis stabilization, resolution, and mastery. These stages, listed below, are essential, sequential, and sometimes overlapping in the process of crisis intervention:
Stage I: Psychosocial and Lethality Assessment
The crisis worker must conduct a swift but thorough biopsychosocial assessment. At a minimum, this assessment should cover the client’s environmental supports and stressors, medical needs and medications, current use of drugs and alcohol, and internal and external coping methods and resources.
Stage II: Rapidly Establish Rapport
Rapport is facilitated by the presence of counselor-offered conditions such as genuineness, respect, and acceptance of the client. This is also the stage in which the traits, behaviors, or fundamental character strengths of the crisis worker come to fore in order to instill trust and confidence in the client. Although a host of such strengths have been identified, some of the most prominent include good eye contact, nonjudgmental attitude, creativity, flexibility, positive mental attitude, reinforcing small gains, and resiliency.
Stage III: Identify the Major Problems or Crisis Precipitants
Crisis intervention focuses on the client’s current problems, which are often the ones that precipitated the crisis.
Stage IV: Deal With Feelings and Emotions
There are two aspects to
Stage IV. The crisis worker strives to allow the client to express feelings, to vent and heal, and to explain her or his story about the current crisis situation. To do this, the crisis worker relies on the familiar “active listening” skills like paraphrasing, reflecting feelings, and probing.
Stage V: Generate and Explore Alternatives
This stage can often be the most difficult to accomplish in crisis intervention.
If Stage IV has been achieved, the client in crisis has probably worked through enough feelings to re-establish some emotional balance. Now, clinician and client can begin to put options on the table, like a no-suicide contract or brief hospitalization, for ensuring the client’s safety; they can discuss alternatives for finding temporary housing and consider the pros and cons of various programs for treating chemical dependency. It is important to keep in mind that these alternatives are better when they are generated collaboratively and when the alternatives selected are “owned” by the client.
Stage VI: Implement an Action Plan
Here is where strategies become integrated into an empowering treatment plan or co-ordinated intervention. Concrete action plans taken at this stage (e.g.,entering a 12-step treatment program, joining a support group, seeking temporary residence in a women’s shelter) are critical for restoring the client’s equilibrium and psychological balance.
Stage VII: Follow-Up
SOURCE: Roberts, A.R., & Yeager, K. R. (2009). Pocket Guide to Crisis Intervention. USA: Oxford Press
There should be 4-5 headings labeling each section of your paper.
SLO4: Identify crisis and trauma issues for YOUR CHOSEN TRAUMA and a client’s family that are relevant to the assessment and treatment of individuals and families.
SLO 5: Identify cultural issues as they apply to THE STRENGTHS AND RESOURCES of individuals, and families.
SLO 6: Identify family and community-based strategies for YOUR CHOSEN TRAUMA.
SLO 7: Identify diagnostic criteria, cultural considerations, and assessment techniques for PTSD, AND OTHER CONDITIONS OF NERVOUS SYSTEM DYSREGULATION.
Sources:
1. Sexual trauma: Rape in the gray zone. (2016, May 09). University Wire. Retrieved from ProQuest Central database.
2. Lohrasbe, R. S. and P. Ogden (2017). Somatic resources: Sensorimotor psychotherapy approach to stabilising arousal in child and family treatment. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy 38(4): 573-581. Retrieved from Ebscohost multisearch.
3. Skinner, L., & McLean, L. (2017). The conversational model and child and family counselling: Treating chronic complex trauma in a systemic framework. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 38(2), 211-220. doi:10.1002/anzf.1214 Retrieved from Ebscohost multisearch.
4. Roberts, A.R., & Yeager, K. R. (2009). Pocket Guide to Crisis Intervention. USA: Oxford Press
5. Codrington, R. (2017). Trauma, dissociation, and chronic shame – reflections for couple and family practice: An interview with Kathy Steele. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy 38(4): 669-679. Retrieved from EbscoHost multisearch.
6. Davis, J. (2019). Using connection to transform addiction. Retrieved on June 2, 2019 from https://upliftconnect.com/opposite-addiction-connection/
Include the 14-minute YouTube on this page, Everything you thought you knew about addiction is wrong.
7. Edwards, K. M., Murphy, S., Palmer, K. M., Haynes, E. E., Chapo, S.,Ekdahl, B. A., Buel, S. (2017 Co-Occurrence of and recovery from substance abuse and lifespan victimization: A qualitative study of female residents in trauma-informed sober living homes. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1-9. Retrieved from EbscoHost multisearch.
8. https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/programs/project-odyssey