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Servant leadership informed trauma peer support
- Author:
- MAHON Daryl
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 25(4), 2021, pp.366-377.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: Peer support has gained increasing attention within the mental health literature, including the trauma informed approaches research where peer support is a key principle. The purpose of this paper is to outline a servant leadership model of trauma peer support. Design/methodology/approach: A targeted literature search that incorporated systematic reviews, meta-analyses and randomised control trials in the areas of servant leadership, peer support and trauma informed approaches were sourced. Findings: Servant leadership can be used to provide a theoretical model of trauma peer support. All three constructs share the idea of empowerment as a core principle. An ideographic model of servant leadership trauma peer support is put forward based on eight characteristics from the extant literature. Research limitations/implications: As with all conceptual papers, a lack of empirical data means the findings need to be investigated using primary data. Future research may wish to use this theoretical model to test effectiveness in equivalence studies. Practical implications: A theoretical model of trauma informed peer support based on servant leadership theory, with a clear guide to its utilisation. (Edited publisher abstract)
Including neuroscience in social work education: introducing graduate students to the neurosequential model of therapeutics
- Authors:
- MASON Christie, KELLY Brian L., McCONCHIE Virginia
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 40(4), 2020, pp.352-371.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
To fill a gap in research on the incorporation of neuroscience in social work education, this article describes Master of Social Work (MSW) student and alumni experiences learning a neuroscience-informed model for practice with clients who have endured developmental trauma. The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) is a clinical decision-making tool that provides an estimate of how a client’s current neurobiological functioning may have been impacted by trauma during the developmental period in order to inform the selection and sequencing of interventions. MSW students and alumni participated in focus groups exploring their perspectives on learning the NMT, the utility of the model in their work, and the fit between the model and social work theory and practice. Participants found the model helpful in conceptualizing client cases and applicable to their work, but challenging to implement due to others’ lack of familiarity with the model, and insufficient infrastructure. These findings suggest the NMT may be a valuable tool for teaching neuroscience within schools of social work. (Publisher abstract)
“Systemic trauma”: the impact on parents whose children have experienced sexual abuse
- Authors:
- KILROY Sarah J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 23(5), 2014, pp.481-503.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article examines the impact on parents in an Irish context whose children have experienced sexual abuse and aims to explore the pathways to distress. This is in order to understand what factors facilitate or hinder parents from supporting their child to the best of their ability, given that parental support is a crucial moderating factor in children’s recoveries. Semistructured interviews were carried out with 13 parents in this context and analyzed using a grounded theory methodology. The overall concept that emerged was termed “systemic trauma” and was composed of eight categories that help to explain the pathways of impact for parents. This model can help clinicians understand and respond to the needs of parents in the aftermath of CSA. (Publisher abstract)
Making the connection: spirituality, trauma and resiliency
- Author:
- FARLE Yvonne R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work, 26(1), 2007, pp.1-15.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Spirituality is increasingly identified as a significant component of resiliency. A model of individual resiliency from family based trauma is described. The characteristics from this model are explored for their compatibility with spiritual practices. Written from a practitioner's experiences, case examples from various practice settings are given to exemplify application of spiritual or religious practices to development of the resiliency traits. Implications for practice include increased understanding of the use of spirituality as a tool to enhance adaptability and coping. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Maltreatment and trauma: toward a comprehensive model of abused children from developmental psychology
- Author:
- WEITZMAN Jack
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 22(2-4), August 2005, pp.321-341.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Developmental research and theory has allowed the child abuse field to move beyond symptom-lists toward broader models of how trauma impacts major domains of personality functioning. However, these models continue to be based largely on discrete theories of development that parallel, if not confound, one another. This article attempts to expand understanding of the traumatized child by using the synthetic model of personality development expounded by Fred Pine that promotes a more holistic and comprehensive view of the abused child and, thus, enhances clinical theory and intervention. The article includes a case study.
Critical incident debriefing and social work: expanding the frame
- Author:
- MILLER Joshua
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Service Research, 30(2), 2003, pp.7-25.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
A debriefing is a structured group process that responds to the cognitive, emotional, physical and social reactions resulting from disasters and other traumatic events. This article describes debriefings and reviews research critically examining their effectiveness. The author proposes ways that social workers can contribute to theoretical frameworks, expand debriefing models, contribute to skill development and advance debriefing research and scholarship. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Managing countertransference in therapeutic interactions with traumatized youth: creating a pathway to making discomfort comfortable
- Authors:
- ALGER Bonnie, GUSHWA Melinda
- Journal article citation:
- Smith College Studies in Social Work, 91(3), 2021, pp.234-254.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Practitioners can find themselves experiencing counter transference without having the tools to adequately respond. As the need for the facility in working with trauma grows, the importance of acknowledging countertransference cannot be underscored enough. Via an overview of a single-case study in which an MSW student evaluated her practice utilizing aspects of a model for operationalizing countertransference, this article presents a model for managing and decreasing countertransference, and enhancing reflective skills. Implications for clinical education and supervision regarding transparency and authenticity in the discussions of countertransference when working with traumatized youth are presented. (Edited publisher abstract)
Childhood trauma, dissociation, and the internal eating disorder ‘voice’
- Authors:
- PUGH Matthew, WALLER Glenn, ESPOSITO Mirko
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 86, 2018, pp.197-205.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Many individuals diagnosed with eating disorders describe their disorder as being represented by an internal ‘voice’. In line with cognitive models of voice-hearing, previous research has identified associations between voice appraisals and eating psychopathology in anorexia nervosa. Whether these findings generalise to other eating disorder subtypes remains unknown. The aetiology of the internal eating disorder voice also remains unclear. Traumatic-dissociative models of voice-hearing, which link such experiences to decontexualised material arising from early traumatic events, might also be relevant to eating disorder groups. To determine whether cognitive models of trauma and voice-hearing apply across eating disorder subtypes, 85 individuals fulfilling ICD-10 criteria for an eating disorder completed self-report measures regarding eating disorder cognitions, voice-related appraisals, childhood trauma, and dissociation. The relative power of the eating disorder voice was found to be positively associated with experiences of childhood emotional abuse, and this relationship was partly mediated by dissociation. In addition, eating disorder voices appraised as powerful and benevolent predicted more negative attitudes towards eating across diagnostic groups, but were unrelated to disordered eating behaviours or weight. These findings suggest that the eating disorder voice plays a meaningful role in eating pathology across diagnoses and that this experience might be related, in part, to experiences of childhood maltreatment. Therapeutic implications are discussed. (Publisher abstract)
The power threat meaning framework: overview
- Authors:
- JOHNSTONE Louise, BOYLE Mary
- Publisher:
- British Psychological Society
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 139
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
This overview outlines the main principles and scope of the Power Threat Meaning (PTM) Framework and summarises the evidence from which the Framework emerged. The PTM Framework provides an over-arching structure for identifying patterns in emotional distress, unusual experiences and troubling behaviour, as an alternative to psychiatric diagnosis and classification. The Framework comprises four interrelated aspects: the role of various kinds of power in people’s lives, the kind of threat that power may pose to a person or group, how meaning shapes the expression of threat, and the ways people have learnt to respond to those threats. The overview report also includes guidelines on how the PTM Framework might be used in service, peer support or self-help settings and appendices which illustrate some of the ways in which non-diagnostic practice has already been successfully adopted both within and beyond services. (Edited publisher abstract)
The Power Threat Meaning Framework: towards the identification of patterns in emotional distress, unusual experiences and troubled or troubling behaviour, as an alternative to functional psychiatric diagnosis
- Authors:
- JOHNSTONE Lucy, BOYLE Mary
- Publisher:
- British Psychological Society
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 414
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
This report describes the Power Threat Meaning Framework, which provides an over-arching structure for identifying patterns in emotional distress, unusual experiences and troubling behaviour, as an alternative to psychiatric diagnosis and classification. The Framework summarises evidence about the role of various kinds of power in people’s lives, the kinds of threat that misuse of power poses, and the ways people have learnt to respond to those threats or ‘symptoms’. It looks at how to make sense of these difficult experiences and how messages from wider society can increase feelings of shame, self-blame, isolation, fear and guilt. The report also outlines the context, principles, research and practice from which the Power Threat Meaning Framework emerged. The approach is summarised in four questions that can apply to individuals, families or social groups: What has happened to you? (How is power operating in your life?); How did it affect you? (What kind of threats does this pose?); What sense did you make of it? (What is the meaning of these situations and experiences to you?); and What did you have to do to survive? (What kinds of threat response are you using?). Two further questions look at the skills and resources people might have and how they might pull all these ideas and responses together into a personal narrative or story: What are your strengths? (What access to Power resources do you have?) and What is your story? (How does all this fit together?). (Edited publisher abstract)