The ethical imperative: Special considerations in the trauma counseling process.

Mailloux, Sharon

doi:10.1177/1534765613496649

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“…Our study's findings demonstrate that veterans want their providers to know about the trauma they've suffered. Eliciting and processing a thorough trauma history with a veteran requires extensive training in trauma informed care in order to be safe and therapeutic for both patient and provider (23)(24)(25)(26). MLMS does not replace an evaluation by a trained behavioral specialist.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Do You Want Us to Know?: Learning From Life Stories to Improve Veterans’ Healthcare Experiences

Nguyen

Khetarpal

et al. 2022

Journal of Patient Experience

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My Life My Story (MLMS) is a national Veterans Health Administration (VA) life story interview program that aims to provide more humanistic care for veterans by focusing on the patient as a person. Our project took place at the Pittsburgh VA Healthcare System and had 3 main goals: (1) describe themes that emerge in MLMS interviews from the prompting question, what do you want your healthcare provider to know about you?; (2) identify topics of importance to veterans and suggest ways for healthcare providers to explore them; and (3) foster a culture at the Pittsburgh VA that places not only the health but also the personal triumphs, hardships, and aspirations of veterans at the center. Veterans provided verbal consent to have their previously recorded stories used in this study. Stories were coded and then analyzed for patterns and themes. A total of 17 veterans participated in our study. Themes that emerged from the stories include (1) Early Hardships; (2) Economic Disadvantage; (3) Polaroid Snapshots; (4) Around the World; (5) Haunted by Combat; (6) Life-altering Moments; (7) Homecoming; (8) Romantic Beginnings & Obstacles; (9) Inequity across Gender & Race; and (10) Facing Mortality. This study's findings underscore the need to address the traumas associated with military service, as well as the challenges faced with re-integration into civilian life, when working with veterans. The MLMS interviews explored in this study can help clinicians identify topics of importance to veterans, strengthen their relationships with their patients, and improve the care that veterans receive.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Do You Want Us to Know?: Learning From Life Stories to Improve Veterans’ Healthcare Experiences

Nguyen

Khetarpal

et al. 2022

Journal of Patient Experience

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“…Norbury et al (2021) note that it is serious harm that affects human beings negatively and leaves its toll on their bodies and psyches. In the same direction, Mailloux (2013), citing the American Psychiatric Association, defines trauma as: direct personal experience of an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury, or other threat to one's physical integrity; or witnessing an event that involves death, injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of another person; or learning about unexpected or violent death, serious harm, or threat of death or injury experienced by a family member or other close associate (p. p. 1). Some of these dreadful events that can have a long-lasting effect on victims include natural disasters, violence, sexual and physical assaults, witnessing the shooting or stabbing of a person, the sudden death of a close person, hospitalisation, war, terrorism, rape, arrest, incarceration and brutality.…”

Section: Conceptualizing Torture and Traumamentioning

confidence: 96%

Torture and Trauma in WodOkello Lawoko’s The Dungeon of Nakasero

Adesina,

Sotunsa

2023

IJEMD-SS

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African literature is characterised by the struggles and challenges of Africans, entailing pains of slavery, primitive colonization and modern colonization otherwise referred to as neo-colonization or imperialism. The continent’s postcolonial challenges include poor leadership, government instability, corruption, poor justice administrative system, underdevelopment, and poverty, among others. Prison memoir, which is a form of witness and resistance literature, particularly, the one written by Prisoners of Conscience (POC), is usually a documentation of these challenges including the trauma experienced as a result of torture experienced from bad leaders. Journalists, being part of society have not been excluded from the societal problems, principally, the torture and trauma experienced from undemocratic leaders. Some journalists have captured these experiences in their writings. However, while scholarship in African literature has paid attention to the various problems of Africa, it has not sufficiently explored torture and trauma in literary texts, mainly, the memoirs written by journalists. WodOkello Lawoko’s The Dungeon of Nakasero, a journalist memoir of sufferings, torture and trauma in the hands of their worst dictatorial military head of state, General Idi Amin, captures the highlighted African struggles and challenges. Therefore, against this backdrop, this study explores the nexus between torture and trauma in The Dungeon of Nakasero, a journalist’s prison memoir that presents the real-life ordeals of Ugandans during the reign of Idi Amin. The study relies on Carthy Caruth’s trauma theory to undertake a textual analysis of the text. Apart from depicting Idi Amin as the worst dictatorial head of state in Uganda, it further places him as one of the worst leaders in Africa. The text depicts journalism as one of the riskiest professions in the world and notes that only the unison of Africans can rid the continent of dictators and poor leadership.

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“…Together, the psychosocial-emotional, academic and career-related needs of higher education students are complex and cannot be seperated. While trauma remains to be one of the most common presentation of issues in counselling (Mailloux, 2014), and higher education students have the tendency to discuss mental health issues and career when they seek counselling support (Hinkelman and Luzzo, 2007), the literature in this area is sparse. Career is a lifelong process, and higher education plays a critical role in preparing students for their future careers.…”

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confidence: 99%

A study protocol for a non-randomised evaluation of a growth-based career construction psychosocial intervention for higher education students

Chim,

Lai

2024

Front. Educ.

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BackgroundDespite promising emerging evidence on the protective properties and interrelationships of posttraumatic growth, career adaptability and psychological flexibility, no studies have reported interventions that promote these positive personal resources among higher education students. Nurturing these positive personal resources in future interventions is recommended to holistically address students’ developmental, academic and career-related challenges associated with major transitions. This paper describes (a) the rationale for and development of a tailored growth-based career construction psychosocial intervention, ‘Sailing through Life and My Career Path’ (SLCP) for higher education students; and (b) a mixed-method non-randomised pre-post study to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed psychosocial intervention in achieving positive participant outcomes.Methods and analysisOver a 12-week period, higher education students will be recruited to take part in group and independent learning activities that are tailored to nurture positive personal resources to overcome challenges related to developmental, academic and career-related transitions. Quantitative data will be collected before and after the intervention and will be analysed using SPSS v26. Follow-up semi-structured interviews with participants (students), interventionists (group facilitators), and administrators will be conducted to explore perceptions of the intervention, to understand its process of change, and to determine its feasibility and acceptability in the higher education setting. All interviews will be transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis.DiscussionBy filling in a gap in existing intervention research and practice, the proposed study serves to generate new knowledge and insights by evaluating the effectiveness of a tailored psychosocial intervention that responds to the complex needs associated with major life transitions of higher education students.

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The ethical imperative: Special considerations in the trauma counseling process.

Cited by 16 publications

References 34 publications

What Do You Want Us to Know?: Learning From Life Stories to Improve Veterans’ Healthcare Experiences

What Do You Want Us to Know?: Learning From Life Stories to Improve Veterans’ Healthcare Experiences

Torture and Trauma in WodOkello Lawoko’s The Dungeon of Nakasero

A study protocol for a non-randomised evaluation of a growth-based career construction psychosocial intervention for higher education students

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