Trauma and Interactional Patterns

Author(s):  
David R. Grove ◽  
Gilbert J. Greene ◽  
Mo Yee Lee

Family interactional patterns that interfere with the resolution of trauma symptoms are identified in detail. Two types of patterns are described: how family are habitually responding to trauma symptoms and how the family was structured before traumatic events occurred and their respective impact on trauma. Several case examples are offered with one or both types of patterns identified in each case.

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katelyn Beebe

Four composite case examples are presented and discussed as they relate to emotional expression, significant moments in the therapeutic process, and communication using a variety of modalities in music therapy with adults diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Building on therapeutic awareness through discussing musical elements, body movement and posture, countertransference, and interactional patterns, the implications of deep emotional connection and processing are approached using primarily nonverbal methods. Composite vignettes from the author’s clinical work demonstrate awareness of these factors in the moment as they impacted the session, therapeutic relationship, and other professionals’ understanding of music therapy in this population. Implications for emotional processing in clinical practice are presented as they relate to the concepts presented in this paper.


Author(s):  
David R. Grove ◽  
Gilbert J. Greene ◽  
Mo Yee Lee

An analysis of family support or lack of family support as key protective and risk factors is reviewed. Specific aspects of family support is defined and research on how it impacts trauma as both a preventative measure and a central component of the healing process is provided. Research regarding lack of family support and the consequences to the trauma survivor is offered. A description of numerous types of family interactional patterns and they interfere with family support is outlined. Cross-cultural issues related to trauma and trauma treatment are addressed.


Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Birnie ◽  
Katelynn E. Boerner ◽  
Christine T. Chambers

The family has long been acknowledged as an important social context where children learn about and receive support for their pain. When a child is in pain, it is the family who is responsible for the initial pain assessment and seeking appropriate evaluation and care. Families may inadvertently encourage the expression of pain and play a critical role in influencing their children’s ability to cope with pain, both positively and negatively. Having a child in pain can also pose significant personal, familial, and economic strains. Therefore, consideration of the family is absolutely critical in the understanding of factors involved in children’s acute and chronic pain experiences (McGrath, 2008). A concentration of research has continued since the last comprehensive review on the topic was published (Chambers, 2003). This chapter considers relevant theoretical models and summarizes current major research themes regarding the role of the family in both acute and chronic paediatric pain. Two illustrative case examples are provided and key areas for future research are identified.


2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54
Author(s):  
Richard Abayomi Aborisade ◽  
Similade Fortune Oni

AbstractIncreasing female involvement in violent crime is a concern in Nigeria; still, it is unclear what informs this sudden surge in a society that supposedly socializes feminine gender to be soft, caring, and compassionate. This article explores the sociological profiles of women involved in armed robbery, drawing case examples from 32 convicts in a Nigerian female penitentiary. It was found that women were made susceptible to deviance by some social factors such as familial variables, neighborhood characteristics, gender discrimination, neglect, and violence. Both primary and secondary social groups were found to be major facilitators in the initiation into crime, development of criminal career, entry into armed robbery, and maintenance of life as a robber. This article concludes that gender-based inequality in all social facets and the unfavorable socio-economic conditions in Nigeria increase the vulnerability of women to be recruited into criminality. A revival of the family institution, gender-neutral parenting, government’s intervention for improvement of socio-economic wellbeing, and gender education are suggested.


1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raija-Leena Punamäki ◽  
Samir Qouta ◽  
Eyad El Sarraj

The associations between traumatic events, children’s gender and political activity, and parenting styles were examined among 108 Palestinians of 11-12 years of age. The results showed that the more the children were exposed to traumatic events, the more they perceived both their parents as strictly disciplining, rejecting, and hostile, and their mothers as more negatively evaluating. The boys perceived both their parents as treating them more negatively than the girls did. Affectionate parenting, such as intimacy and love, for its part, was not associated with traumatic events, and did not vary according to the child’s gender or political activity. The gender of the child affected the association between traumatic events, political activity, and perceived parenting. Traumatic events increased perceived parental rejection and hostility only among the boys, and perceived strict disciplining only among the girls. Although politically active children perceived both of their parents as more negative in general, in the families exposed to a high level of traumatic events, passive boys perceived their fathers as more rejecting and hostile than active boys did. It is suggested that mothers and fathers rear girls restrictively and with greater attention, and boys with rejection, when the family faces traumatic events. In exposed families, fathers also tend to discourage boys’ political passivity and apparently encourage activity.


Author(s):  
David R. Grove ◽  
Gilbert J. Greene ◽  
Mo Yee Lee

Family Therapy for Trauma: An Integrative Family and Systems Treatment (I-FAST) Approach offers a stand-alone family therapy treatment approach for trauma, addressing a gap in the trauma treatment literature. The book outlines a flexible yet structured family therapy approach that can integrate intervention procedures from any of the evidence-based manualized trauma treatments into a family treatment framework. The authors show how this flexibility offers great advantages for engaging trauma survivors and their families into treatment, who otherwise would not cooperate with standard trauma treatment approaches. They show how tracking and utilizing client and family frames in the organizing of treatment enhances both family engagement and the healing process in general. We show the role of family interactional patterns in the perpetuation of trauma symptoms and how changing these patterns leads to the resolution of trauma symptoms. The book demonstrates how tracking and enlarging interactional exceptions plays a key role in overcoming problems related to trauma. For clients who are not interested in trauma treatment, the authors show how treatment focusing on whatever issue they are willing to address can simultaneously resolve their trauma symptoms.


Author(s):  
David R. Grove ◽  
Gilbert J. Greene ◽  
Mo Yee Lee

Cultural, family, and professional frames and narratives are identified and discussed as they pertain to trauma. How all of these types of frames and narratives can reinforce and exacerbate trauma symptoms is explored. How integrative family and systems treatment (I-FAST) utilizes strengths-based frames in working with trauma survivors and their families is described. Several case examples are outlined with family frames tracked and frames offered to set the stage for treatment.


Author(s):  
Kristen S. Higgins ◽  
Christine T. Chambers ◽  
Kathryn A. Birnie ◽  
Katelynn E. Boerner

The family has long been acknowledged as an important social context where children learn and receive support for experienced pain. When a child is in pain, the family is responsible for identifying pain and seeking appropriate evaluation and care. Families’ responses may inadvertently encourage or discourage the expression of pain and play a critical role in influencing children’s ability to cope with pain, both positively and negatively. Having a child in pain can pose significant personal, familial, and economic strains to parents, and parents’ health can impact pain and psychological symptoms in their offspring. Therefore, consideration of the family is critical in understanding children’s pain. This chapter describes relevant theoretical models and summarizes current major research themes regarding the role of the family in both acute and chronic pediatric pain. Two illustrative case examples and a parent perspective are provided and key areas for future research are identified.


2021 ◽  
pp. 43-76
Author(s):  
Karla Vermeulen

The “Parenting Post-9/11” chapter examines the environment that Generation Disaster’s caregivers created within the family microsystem throughout their childhood and adolescence, as parents are generally the most important developmental influence during those formative years. It then considers how this cohort’s parents were impacted by 9/11 and all of the subsequent societal changes, as well as their fears about children’s safety amid the rise in school shootings, and it demonstrates how children’s responses to stressful and traumatic events are closely correlated with their caregivers’ reactions. The chapter considers whether accusations of “helicopter parenting” by these caregivers are valid, and it examines the impact of smartphones and other technologies on the first group of parents and children that had to incorporate these tools into their family dynamics.


2021 ◽  
pp. 41-43
Author(s):  
Tushti Bhardwaj

Background: Grief is mainly associated with loss of a loved one, however taking an extended approach grief can also be seen among those who are surviving dreadful illness diseases. Methods: The present article reviews the concept of grief with this extended approach and examines the existing evidences. The research papers, essays and case examples are examined for identifying expressions of grief on the basis of demographic characteristics i.e. gender, age, role/relationship and social position of the deceased as well as bereaved person. Grief has also been examined in related to the culture of the family and wider society. Grief of the person-in-situation i.e. survivors of terminal illness and victims of crime is discussed in light of research ndings and case examples. Results: The close examination of the evidences reviewed in this article highlighted the differences in expressions of grief on the basis of age, gender, social roles, cultural context and social ethos suggesting that grief is socially and culturally patterned. Conclusion: People experience grief differently which impact their adaptation to the loss. It is important to understand the cause and process of grief to prepare an action plan for the bereaved members.


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