Over the past few decades, we have made great strides in treating individuals who have been traumatized. With the development of neuroscience, we now understand how traumatic stress can result in changes in the brain that impact physical and mental well-being. This course has taken a strengths-based approach to understanding trauma in its various forms – acute, developmental, complex, historical, racial, and chronic.

As practitioners, we need to be mindful of the personal toll working with this population can take upon us, including trauma-related stress (vicarious trauma, secondary trauma, and compassion fatigue) and burnout. As such, this course has emphasized introspection and self-care.

For this assignment, you will reflect upon how this course has impacted the development of your social work practice. Students will write a 4-6 page paper that describes the ways that this course has changed/ will most likely change how you conceptualize the issues and “symptoms” presented by trauma survivors and how you might intervene to help them.

­­This activity helps to meet MLO 2

Instructions

Your paper should include the following, using the components below as headings, and should be a maximum of 6 pages

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