A mindset or emotional support is often overlooked. Anyone who wants to succeed, but tends to stumble knows this well. Everyone wants to be the best there ever was in a certain profession, unfortunately those who want to succeed occasionally have distractions which cause them to “screw up” that take over his or her ability to put the past behind them and notice the flowers blooming outside. In Janice Hudson’s memoir Trauma Junkie, Hudson takes her reader on a series of CLASTAR (California Shock/Trauma Air Rescue) flights that reveals why “trauma junkies” must be emotionally stable to combat the eyesores they witness on a daily basis. Throughout this action packed memoir, Hudson and her fellow junkies have to combat the emotional stress that…
The film “Century of Genocide in the Americas: the Residential School Experience” is a testimony to the atrocity and cruelty the white people incurred upon the Indians. The film shortly portrays the bizarre picture of the reservation where each and every day the Indians were killed, maimed, raped and denied human rights in varied forms. The film cites the second article of the 1948 Genocide Convention “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group…” It conveys the message that white people committed genocide on the Indians. The writer of the article “Gee, You Don’t Seem like an Indian from the Reservation.”…
estone One: Outline of Case Analysis-Needs A. Assess the impact of physical trauma on the children and family. i. What are the short-term impacts of this trauma? Some short-term impacts of trauma can manifest themselves in behavioral reactions. Some of these reactions include development of new fears separation anxiety (particularly in young children), sleep disturbance, nightmares, sadness, loss of interest in normal activities, reduced concentration, decline in school work, anger, somatic complaints and irritability (Children and Trauma, 2008).…
A final piece to understanding the link between eating disorders and child abuse is trauma itself. “Children and Trauma” by Cynthia Monahon explains how childhood trauma affects mental development, which connects back to the correlation between body-image and PTSD. Important aspects of trauma include: experiences, sources, and signs of trauma. Not only are these aspects reviewed in the book, but also in an article by Annika Lejonclou. “Variants of Potentially Traumatizing Life Events in Eating Disorder Patients” builds a bridge between Monahon’s ideas and eating disorders.…
According to Moore (2014), “Cultural trauma occurs when members of a collectively feel they have been subject to horrendous event that leaves indelible marks upon their group consciousness, marketing their memories forever and changing their future identity in fundamental and irrevocable ways” (143). Today, many people around the world are unaware of the history of the residential school. The story of the residential school is being kept out of the side not allowing people to know about what exactly happen at the time. For instance, children that are growing up in this generation are clueless about the story of residential school.…
In this paper I will be discussing the eight areas on trauma informed organisational checklist tool. My priority based on the checklist tool will be discussed. Some strength and weakness will also be explored. The Appendix 2 Trauma Informed Practice Organizational Checklist tool will be completed with descriptions included. Overall Policy/Program Mandate…
Factors While determining the amount of money given to the victims of residential schools, I will first take into account which school they attended. Each school across Canada was run in slightly different way. Some more violent than the other, but all equally as harsh. In addition to this, all the residential schools had one main goal; assimilate Aboriginals to the superior race.…
When Residential Schools Began 1870s Federal government and Plain Nations both wanted to have schooling for Aboriginal youth Aboriginal adults assumed schooling systems would help their youth transition into the new dominating society (European-Canadians) successfully in 1867 the British North America Act and in 1876 the Indian Act was published the acts obliged the government to provide education for Aboriginal youth and teach them to be economically self-sufficient government teamed with Christian missionaries to have Aboriginal youth convert religion the first 3 schools were built in 1883 in the Prairies residential schooling was most prominent in the 1930s with 80 institutions Roman Catholic church managed ⅗ of the schools Anglican church…
The residential school system was organized in a half day system. Half of the day the students would study and the other half they would work. They did this so that the students would learn skills that would help them earn a living and by making the children do labor, it would cost the schools and government less money. In the 1950s, funding increased and the half day system was eliminated since the children were not receiving an efficient amount of education.…
What is psychological trauma? Trauma is a term used in every day language to define a stressful event. Comprehending traumatic events, however, is concerned with the stress that overwhelms an individuals capability to cope with a particular event. As a result, a traumatic situation leads to psychological trauma in which the individual may feel physically, emotionally, and cognitively overwhelmed. As Blaum suggests, “Catastrophes such as the Holocaust and the World Wars involve shock, strain, and screen trauma, with cumulative individual and group traumatization” (Blum, 67).…
Going into depth on the horror and traumatizing events that had taken place during their times at residential schools, the films "We Were Children" and "Unrepentant" express the short-term and long-term effects by the survivors. Many survivors admitted to drug and/or alcohol abuse, some even attempting suicide multiple times. The concept of residential schools has been a major issue in both enactments, where young Aboriginal children were forced out of their homes to live in schools administered by the government in conjugation with religious churches. As expressed in the films, creating such direful schools that were in fact chronically underfunded and accommodated bad living conditions, had been created as a way to assimilate Aboriginal children…
Students attending residential school lived an inferior quality of life and their health was threatened by the substandard environments of schools. As a result, people pass away from diseases and abuses at a young age, and the death rate always remains significant at residential schools. Even though students were not beaten to death, they must have been traumatized. The harm caused by those abuses could potentially lead students to mental disorders because they live in the fear of being mistreated again and seeing their peers…
For this discussion, I read the article titled Children and Trauma: A post -Katrina and Rita Response and I watched the 60 minutes video on the Sandy Hook school shooting. Both man- made and natural disasters bring about many questions and need psychological help to process. Feelings of insecurity, powerlessness, confusion, and depression were common, as homes, workplaces, and schools were destroyed or left uninhabitable. Discuss how we might understand and/or respond to crisis and trauma from a faith informed perspective while utilizing sound counseling methods. We can respond to crisis and trauma by showing love and compassion just as Jesus did for all of us when he died on the cross.…
This article discusses the goals from a childhood trauma questionnaire that measured how emotional abuse and emotional neglect measure issues related to adult recollection. Another goal of the study was to assess the levels of emotional abuse and emotional neglect in victim samples. Examples of the 28 questions on the questionnaire included “People in my gamily called me things like stupid, lazy, or ugly” and “I felt loved” (Baker, 2010). This childhood trauma questionnaire arose findings of the rates of both emotional abuse and emotional neglect were higher in clinical settings than in community settings. One finding throughout this finding was that developmental psychopathology, how maltreatment interacts with other risk factors intervene…
Residential Schools and their Effectiveness on Aboriginal People: As Canadian children today the thought of starting school excited us. We enjoy everything our school system has to offer. Native children many years ago were not excited when the thought of school rose in their mind. Residential schools were a school system set up by the canadian government and run by churches, having the objective of educating aboriginal children (Guerin, 2011, pg 2).…