Assignment Task: Helping professionals must strive to help people identify and mobilize the resources they need to overcome past traumas and move forward in healthy ways. As you listen and watch Dr. Megan McElheran talk about her work with adult survivors of trauma, respond to these questions.
1. Dr. McElheran says trauma is the great equalizer. What is her proof?
2. Trauma has the effect of organizing someone's life. Explain.
3. What happens if people are left on their own to try to organize the effects of trauma?
4. Pulling away to avoid pain is a vicious cycle. Explain how.
5. What is the challenge of a traumatized person?
6. Why does narrowing the range of experience ultimately fail as a solution for trauma survivors?
7. When does healing start to occur?
8. What is the impact of relationships and reconnecting on healing?
9. People can endure and recover horrific events in their life if what?