{"id":5568,"date":"2013-12-20T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccpa.scottbuckingham.ca\/blog\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2013-12-20T10:43:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:43:49","slug":"my-christmas-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/my-christmas-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"My Christmas Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psychotraumatology in Canada<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

Today is Friday the 13th <\/sup>and there are 12 days before Christmas.\u00a0 The lyrics in my Christmas song would reveal that I know, at my core, every day, what my true love gives to me.\u00a0 The classic novella and movie by Charles Dickens \u00a0\u2013 A Christmas Carol (1843) demonstrates that it is never too late to revisit one\u2019s ways; the past, present and future to change the direction and focus in life.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, its a child\u2019s question, like Virginia O\u2019Hanlon, who wrote a letter at Christmastime in 1857, that was answered and is now a famous newspaper editorial: \u00a0\u201cYes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus\u201d http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yes,_Virginia,_there_is_a_Santa_Claus<\/a> that has further inspired others to build upon that child\u2019s question to create more goodness for others to benefit from.<\/p>\n

The fall and winter seasons and traditional family life celebrations; the going \u201chome\u201d ceremonies and rituals of Thanksgiving and Christmas, can be highly charged, intensely emotional and difficult times for heroic survivors of domestic, relational violence – abuses.\u00a0 Trauma vortex containers and symptom categories form the basis of the diagnostic criteria inherent in Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [C-PTSD][2][3], which receives little public press.\u00a0 We are just starting to pay close attention to the military stories of war veterans, who stories hit the National News scene, especially when their death is tragic, i.e. Suicide.\u00a0 But, what about all those heroic surviving women and children, who contain and endure their own secret war stories that occur behind-closed doors? These are the people who inspire me and my Christmas wish is that our country, our government, perhaps Alberta, will rise to the occasion and establish a C-PTSD Centre to attend and offer hope to cure their war wounds.<\/p>\n

I first heard the term sunset clients during my training process towards certification in Self-Regulation Therapy [SRT: 2002-2004] at the CFTRE http:\/\/cftre.com<\/a>.\u00a0 My instructor, Dr. E. Josephs referred to one client, I presenting for consultation, as a \u201csunset client.\u201d\u00a0 The inference was that our client\/therapist relationship would exist until one person\u2019s final sunset \u2013 implying demise – death. \u00a0This idea is too morbid for this helping professional to accept.\u00a0 Critical \u2018choice points\u2019 require critical thinking and intensive care planning.\u00a0 We provide this type of care for life-threatening, physical obstructing malignancies [matter], and we ought to provide the same kind of attention for \u201cpsychic\u201d obstructing malignancies [mind].<\/p>\n

Being the eternal optimist that I am at my core, I struggled\/continue to struggle with this \u201csunset client\u201d concept which implies an open-ended, therapeutic traumatic stress treatment contract for clients presenting with a trauma vortex \u201ccore\u201d containers to infamy.\u00a0 This \u201ctill death we do part\u201d is a ridiculous implied condition that is impractical, illogical and not feasible on so many levels, for so many reasons.<\/p>\n

This degree of pessimism runs contrary to my core beliefs, moral compass and guiding practice principles established for myself that benefits the client population I serve.\u00a0 The majority are survivors with C-PTSD with varying degrees of SC profiles.\u00a0 I am a realist; not a fatalist especially when it comes to the power of faith, hope and love.\u00a0 I have witnessed miracles cures for both physical and psychic encapsulated malignancies and I want to witness more!<\/p>\n

This fall and winter season, a small group of seasoned clients, with 20 \u2013 30 years of therapeutic healing journeys behind them, emerged and I am now face-to-face with the mask of the sunset client.\u00a0 The field of Psychotraumatology is no longer emerging for the eagles have landed.<\/p>\n

There are six, not one, so what is this trauma psychotherapist going to do about that within her small practice reality?<\/p>\n

This small group are challenging me with a specific request, primary goal and dream:\u00a0 final relief, release and freedom or cure from their trauma vortex containers – before death.\u00a0 They all have endured\/relived decades of burden\/angst secondary to their C-PTSD diagnosis and unrelenting, destructive and to date, treatment-resistant core, symptom complex [SC].\u00a0 I refuse to accept or label anyone in this small group of six as sunset clients, and this fact, is the impetus for me to conceptualize, revise the standardized contemporary, traumatic stress treatment program I have adhered since 1995.\u00a0 During November I drafted the experimental, applied counselling program and the methodology is based upon the presenting and manifesting SC of the client participants \u2013 case studies and content analysis.\u00a0 Each participant requires a highly specialized, individualized, plus collaborative team approach [CTA] model of care to guide their treatment program towards their goal \u2013 cure [the same spirit\/fight noted in people fighting a battle against cancer].<\/p>\n

With the research project proposal drafted, I approached a small group of senior, advanced practitioners I have had the privilege to consult\/work with for decades.\u00a0 I forwarded and they graciously received and willingly reviewed the documents and considered my bid, plight asking for their help, expertise and commitment for the duration of the project \u2013 4 years.\u00a0 Poof – just like the baseball movie\/magic www.wwikipedia.org\/wiki\/Field_of_Dreams<\/a> \u2013 this project was launched.<\/p>\n

I continue to dream and wish for a federally funded, Canadian C-PTSD Centre, however and in the interim, two eagles landed and were launched into the MOT: Silver Linings Core Group Healing [SLCHG], Entry Program and we will all do our best towards the healing cure goal.<\/p>\n

Wishing you and yours the best during the holiday season and I look forward to sharing our project news, progress in upcoming articles.<\/p>\n

Author:\u00a0 Dr. Linda AK Thompson, PsyD, PACCC, CCC, FAAETS
\nOwner, Matrix of Trauma (\u00a9 MOT \u2122):\u00a0 Research, Advocacy, Healing<\/p>\n

References:<\/span><\/p>\n

Courtois, C.A. (1999).\u00a0 Recollections of Sexual Abuse: treatment principles and guidelines. <\/em>New York: WW. Norton & Co. Inc.<\/p>\n

Herman, J. L. (1992).\u00a0 Trauma and Recovery: the aftermath of violence \u2013 from domestic abuse to political terror.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>New York:\u00a0 Basic Books.<\/p>\n

Pelcovitz, D.; van der Kolk, B.A.; Roth, S.; Mandel, F.S.; Kaplan, S. + Resick, P.A. (1997).\u00a0 Development of a Criteria Set and a Structured Interview for Disorders of Extreme Stress [SIDES].\u00a0 <\/em>Journal of Traumatic Stress, 10, p.9. Copyright 1997 by the Internationa Society for Truamatic Stress Studies.\u00a0 Printed with permission pg. 88 in Courtois.<\/p>\n

Thompson, L.A.K. (2013 – 2017).\u00a0 MOT: Pilot Project – Silver Linings Core Group Healing [SLCHG].\u00a0 An experimental, applied trauma psychotherapy, C-PTSD visionary traumatic stress treatment program.\u00a0 The formation of collaborating team approaches [CTA] of care with \u201ccore\u201d practitioners.\u00a0 The small group, case studies utilizing content analysis of the six participants seeking \u201cpychic\u201d encapsulated, malignant, trauma-generated, core wound cures.<\/em><\/p>\n

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