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Semelhante a Dubai Fostering Resiliency in Clients 2015
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Dubai Fostering Resiliency in Clients 2015
- 1. Resiliency Building with Clients with Trauma Histories Monica Hinton PhD Cand., RSW Department of National Defence Monica.hinton@forces.gc.ca www.phoenixcounsellingservices.org
- 2. Outline • Introduction • Resiliency defined • Research • Resiliency tools • Conclusion
- 3. What is resiliency? • Resiliency is not something fixed • The very definition (engineering): bouncing back • If rigid, a bridge would collapse in an earthquake • Going back & forth from vulnerability to resiliency; essence of the phenomenon • BambooBamboo—balance b/w flexibility & rigidity
- 4. Research Questions1. What fosters resiliency? (Masters) 2. What is the process of resilience? (PhD) • Qualitative, Grounded Theory • In-depth interviews with self-defined resilient individuals over 30 • Childhood trauma of sexual abuse before age 12 • Limitations (geography, time, # of participants, etc) • Applicability (reinforced past research findings)
- 5. Grounded Theory: Strategies for Addressing the Phenomenon Regulating traumatic experience Spirituality Enlisting NB indiv/ pets
- 7. Pictorial Representation of First PhD Interview Memo
- 8. PhD: Creating Distance Category
- 9. 1.Caring relationships convey compassion, understanding, respect, & interest, listening, & establish safety & basic trust 2. High expectation belief in the client's innate resilience; look for strengths & assets as opposed to problems & deficits 3. Opportunities for meaningful participation & contribution opportunities for valued responsibilities, for making decisions & for contributing one's talents to the community (Benard, 1991) “Protective factors" (characteristics that alter/reverse potential negative outcomes) consist of three broad categories:
- 10. PERSONAL RESILIENCY BUILDERS Individual Qualities that Facilitate Resiliency Relationships: Sociability/ability to be a friend/ability to form positive relationships Humour: Good sense of humour Inner Direction: Bases choices/decisions on internal evaluation (internal locus of control) Perceptiveness: Insightful understanding of people & situations Independence: "Adaptive" distancing from unhealthy people & situations/autonomy Flexibility: Can adjust to change; can bend as necessary to positively cope with situations Love of Learning: Capacity for & connection to learning Self-motivation: Internal initiative & positive motivation from within Competence: Is "good at something"/personal competence Self-Worth: Feelings of self-worth & self-confidence Spirituality: Personal faith in something greater Perseverance: Keeps on despite difficulty; does not give up Creativity: Expresses self through artistic endeavour Positive View of Personal Future: Optimism, expects a positive future
- 11. You Can Best Help Yourself or Someone Else Be More Resilient by... 1. Communicating the Resiliency Attitude: "What is right with you is more powerful than anything that is wrong with you.“ 2. Focusing on the person's strengths more than issues/ weaknesses. Ask, "How can these strengths be used to overcome issues/problems?" 3. Providing for yourself or another the conditions listed in The Resiliency Quiz. 4. Having patience... successfully bouncing back from a significant trauma or crisis takes time.
- 12. List of Resources/GoodList of Resources/Good web sitesweb sites • www.resiliency.comwww.resiliency.com • www.resiliencybuilder.com (Calgary site)www.resiliencybuilder.com (Calgary site) • www.mindtools.comwww.mindtools.com • www.life-happens.cawww.life-happens.ca • www.mheccu.ubc.cawww.mheccu.ubc.ca • www.resiliencycenter.comwww.resiliencycenter.com • www.aidsalliance.org/sw2389.aspwww.aidsalliance.org/sw2389.asp • www.projectresilience.comwww.projectresilience.com
- 13. Questions?Questions? Thank you for your participation today. www.phoenixcounsellingservices.org
Notas do Editor
- I am very experiential in my practice and my teaching…so this will be very experiential learning today—despite the number of people here. Let’s start with an experiential grounding technique to get us fully present in this moment. So, welcome…thank you for joining me today.
- Since we have a limited time together today, I will skim the surface of resiliency research/work. This area is in its infancy and really speaks to social work practice (person in environment) and we will unfold the individual/environment/community aspects of building/enhancing resiliency.
- Not fixed—NB, as it influences our treatment with clients (how/what we do with them); quick example of the 7 year old boy; this means that we will have times in our lives that we are more and less resilient than we are at this very moment in time; makes a difference, then, when we think of our clients—they bump up into us at a time in their life—does not mean that they are not resilient, but they may be at a less resilient time in their life; and it does not mean that there will be times in the future that they are more resilient than they are at this moment Origin of the word—library at Waterloo; bamboo used as scaffolding, flooring, sheets, bikes, furniture, etc
- Through all of my education, workshops, training, practicum placements, the focus was always on pathology—what is the problem/what is going wrong in client’s/patient’s life. I was taught that certain experiences created attachment issues, relationship issues, addiction issues, etc. Taking a minor in criminology, I always questioned the notion that someone’s traumatic experiences could “predict”, so to speak, their behaviour—an abused child becomes an abuser, as I sat in rooms with many who had experienced abuse who were not abusers. So, I wanted to know—what was it that set apart those who did not bump up into institutions from those who did
- These were the categories that I labelled following the concepts that emerged from the grounded theory research
- These concepts were the words of those I interviewed—they are not my own. Foster resiliency in children—have them read
- Example: in the winter, we bundle up, take vitamins, get sleep…we can’t get rid of the flu virus but we can be protected Environmental Resiliency Builders: protective factors that foster resiliency Self-fulfilling prophecy—if we believe in our clients, then they will believe in themselves; teacher’s preconceived notions RE a child filters into the self-fulfilling prophecy; Research tells us that it does not matter what we do with our clients (CBT, CRT, Gestalt, etc)…what is most NB is the relationship that we build with them. How do we do that—build trust, believe in their abilities and have expectations and clear boundaries
- Look at what is—how are they already coping. Clients draw on their internal resources to cope with issues. We all have a cluster of these builders that we develop along the way Some traits we are born with but most can be developed over time
- Recently had a client say that she found my approach refreshing; when I asked her what was different from therapists in the past, she commented that I gave her hope that she could do this recovery; she mentioned that I did not focus on what was wrong with her—I wanted to know from her where she needed to start; she stated that she was not ready to make any changes, which moves therapy into starting where she is at (rather than putting on the role of the expert)