Trauma Through the Life Cycle: A Review of Current Literature

Straussner, Shulamith Lala Ashenberg; Calnan, Alexandrea Josephine

doi:10.1007/s10615-014-0496-z

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“…Zerubavel and Wright (2012) noted that a history of behavioral health problems can either enhance or interfere with one’s effectiveness as a clinician; therefore, studies need to be performed within the social work profession to explore the possible benefits and liabilities of having experienced these issues. Given the frequent employment of social workers with clients who have a history of trauma (Straussner & Calnan, 2014), it is critical that wounded healers in our field are supported to use their own wounds to help others and not become impaired professionals whose emotional problems adversely affect their clinical work.…”

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Wounded Healers: A Multistate Study of Licensed Social Workers’ Behavioral Health Problems

2018

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Studies indicate that helping professionals are disproportionately affected by behavioral health problems. Among social workers, the nature and scope of these problems are understudied. This article reports the findings of a 2015 survey of 6,112 licensed social workers in 13 states regarding their problems with mental health; alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; and gambling. To ascertain whether these problems preceded or developed during their social work careers, the periods of time when these issues were experienced were identified. Results indicate that 40.2 percent of respondents reported mental health problems before becoming social workers, increasing to 51.8 percent during their social work career, with 28 percent currently experiencing such problems. Nearly 10 percent of the sample experienced substance use problems before becoming social workers, decreasing to 7.7 percent during their career. Analyses by race or ethnicity, sex, and age identified between-group differences in the prevalence of these problems. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications for the social work profession.

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Wounded Healers: A Multistate Study of Licensed Social Workers’ Behavioral Health Problems

2018

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“…Prior to being able to identify and gain insight into clients’ patterns of connection and disconnection, counselors may need to provide basic psychoeducation regarding emotions, traumatic stress disorders, relationships, patterns of disconnection, and the associations among these constructs. Providing trauma psychoeducation may normalize clients’ symptoms, reduce distress related to symptoms (e.g., shame, excessive self‐blame, fear of “going crazy”), and assist in the development of adaptive coping skills (Kress & Paylo, ; Straussner & Calnan, ).…”

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The Use of Relational‐Cultural Theory in Counseling Clients Who Have Traumatic Stress Disorders

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Counseling scholarship has increasingly demonstrated the utility of relational-cultural theory (RCT) in promoting the relationship-building and growth-fostering connections many clients require to manage problems in living. The authors applied RCT to counseling clients with traumatic stress disorders rooted in traumas of an interpersonal nature (e.g., child abuse, interpersonal partner violence, sexual assault). An overview of traumatic stress disorders and RCT, as well as the ways in which RCT can inform trauma conceptualization and treatment approaches with victims, is provided.

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“…Key to this work will be determining what should be measured across studies to advance theory, research, and practice. For example, while empirical data point to the reality that elder abuse is often perpetrated by loved ones (Courtois & Gold, 2009;Straussner & Calnan, 2014), much remains to be elucidated about the role of the victim-offender relationship in victim health outcomes as well as engagement with law enforcement and services. Further, little is known about how previous trauma exposureparticularly interpersonal violence earlier in lifeaffects risk for and subsequent coping with elder abuse.…”

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Moving the Field Forward: Elucidating the Nexus Between Elder Abuse and Trauma

DePrince

Jackson

2020

Journal of Trauma & Dissociation

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At least 10% of older adults (age 60 and older) experience some form of elder abuse in a given year, with an additional 5% experiencing some form of financial fraud. However, conceptualizations of traumatic stress remain less well developed for elder abuse relative to other forms of trauma, such as child maltreatment and intimate partner violence. Incorporating a trauma framework into elder abuse research promises to deepen and expand our understanding of elder abuse, with the goal of preventing abuse and improving responses to older victims. This special section seeks to spur further research on the nexus between trauma and elder abuse. To frame the special section, this introduction describes current scholarship on this topic and multiple ways to enhance understanding of the nexus between elder abuse and traumatic stress in order to advance research, theory, and practice. The introduction offers an overview of three papers that apply trauma conceptualizations and related theories to distinct areas of inquiry: financial exploitation, criminology's General Strain Theory, and historical trauma experienced by American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

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Trauma Through the Life Cycle: A Review of Current Literature

Cited by 56 publications

References 80 publications

Wounded Healers: A Multistate Study of Licensed Social Workers’ Behavioral Health Problems

Wounded Healers: A Multistate Study of Licensed Social Workers’ Behavioral Health Problems

The Use of Relational‐Cultural Theory in Counseling Clients Who Have Traumatic Stress Disorders

Moving the Field Forward: Elucidating the Nexus Between Elder Abuse and Trauma

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