What is it about?
This article attempts to explore the impact of clinicians being consistently exposed to the trauma of their clients. In particular it explores how it can result in clinicians developing secondary trauma symptoms, altered emotional states and world views. It then goes on to explore how these changes at an individual level can impact on collaborative care across individuals, teams and organisations using the brain as a metaphor.
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Why is it important?
This work is unique because it goes beyond the individual clinician to explore the potential impact of traumatic experience on collaborative care systems they are a part of.
Perspectives
I am passionate about trauma and it's impact on human experience. In particular, this article puts forward ideas about how human systems operate together and how traumatic experience may ripple out emotionally and interpersonally between people who have not directly experienced the traumatic events that are central to these systems.
Dilip Balu
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This page is a summary of: ‘Untying the Knot’: Achieving Integrative and Collaborative Care within Trauma and Fear Saturated Systems – A Practice-Focused Discussion Paper, Children Australia, April 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/cha.2017.12.
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