Trauma/Crisis Worker: A Case Study

My career goal is to get into a trauma/crisis center supporting victims and survivors through counseling and legal help as a therapist and advocate. I hope to work with this population and learn more about resiliency, and what makes a person more likely to be resilient after a trauma, and what ways as a therapist can we add protective and promotive factors into clients lives before and after the trauma to best help them in the future. I also am interested into developing and researching further factors that can protect children from trauma, and develop ways to help them after trauma where there are less problems and symptoms in their later life. I believe that it is important to work with the survivors who have experienced a traumatic experience and help them overcome the difficulties they are going through because of it. However, I believe that it is important to try work proactively against trauma to support the future victims. Since we cannot prevent and protect everyone from trauma like rape, abuse, or domestic violence, it is important to know how to react and help the victim to keep them on a positive outcome and path after. There is no doubt in my mind that …show more content…
I want to be on call at an organization to go out to hospitals and to police stations to support victims of trauma when they come in for help. I would like to be their support at their time of need, and to be there to help them understand what is happening and to help them think through where they want to go next. I want to work with the clients from first entering the program and then work with them as court proceedings happen, and to be able to help the victim succeed through their journey. I also want to be working as a counselor for individuals working through past traumas and support them as the recover and explore and gain insight to what they went thought and start incorporating action into their lives and then change their