{"id":5577,"date":"2014-02-24T16:49:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T21:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccpa.scottbuckingham.ca\/blog\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2014-02-24T16:49:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T21:49:04","slug":"slchg-pilot-project-debunking-myths-of-sunset-clients-anomalous-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/slchg-pilot-project-debunking-myths-of-sunset-clients-anomalous-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"SLCHG Pilot Project: Debunking Myths of Sunset Clients + Anomalous Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since my last 2 articles relating to the project, I am grateful, pleased to announce that the editor of Counselling Connect created a category for Blog Posts related to trauma counselling.\u00a0 This will make it easy for readers to find\/follow the progress of this research project\/field of study.\u00a0 The focus of this project remains the creation\/development of a specialized, blueprint<\/strong> treatment program for posttrauma survivors with anomalous experiences.\u00a0\u00a0 Despite completion of effective Contemporary Phase 1\u20133 traumatic stress treatment programs; they continue to suffer\/endure aftermath effects related to anomalies addressed by Herman [4], proposing a category for Complex PTSD [C-PTSD], implying treatment-resistance and labelling: fact, fiction or myth that they are \u201cSunset Clients\u201d [6].<\/p>\n

For background information: personal disclosures, professional development and motivational factors sustaining my interest in this field, readers can refer to previously submitted articles under the title – \u201cThe Emerging Field of Psychotraumatology in Canada.\u201d\u00a0 For the past 25 years, a small sub-group of PTSD survivors have presented with an extreme, severe degree of trauma vortex profiles Herman wrote about.\u00a0 These heroic survivors have graced my private practice space and we worked hard towards healing goals.\u00a0 With reservation, I acknowledge, but resist the idea: fact, fiction or myth inherent in the label that some survivors of severe childhood trauma will be \u2018sunset clients.\u2019\u00a0 This term is pessimistic and fatalistic; neither helpful nor hopeful, and all this label does is promote complacency within the professions and helplessness in clients.<\/p>\n

Instead, this project provides us with opportunity to create, study and better understand severe core psychological wounds in an active case study format where anomalous experiences are noteworthy, addressed and may debunk the myth that \u2018sunset clients\u2019 are doomed and damaged beyond healing-to-cure. These exceptional human beings deserve service from a helpful village of practitioners\u2019 concept, where collaboration occurs and anomalous healing – cure is envisioned.\u00a0 There is an ancient African proverb from Igbo and Yoruba regions of Nigeria that states, \u201cIt takes a village to raise a child:\u201dhttp:\/\/www.reference.com\/motif\/society\/origin-of-it-takes-a-village-to-raise-a-child<\/a>.\u00a0 For sunset clients [trauma vortex poster children], this proverb was lost during their childhoods and I believe collaborative teams can simulate a good enough, second chance village experience stimulating anomalous healing – cure.<\/p>\n

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As lead primary co-investigator, I am 100% committed for the past 25 years, my primary role and function remains service as a front-line trauma counsellor.\u00a0 <\/strong>I completed several pilot projects, however, I have not applied for any more research grants since my Masters program.\u00a0 I am no longer able to afford the services of a research administrator or support staff.\u00a0 I remain grateful to our association, editor and this blog site, otherwise findings gleamed from this project would remain underground, another unpublished pilot.\u00a0 This C-PTSD – Healing-to-cure journey is totally, 100% client-directed for, and in my opinion, this small group remain the experts of their complex selves.<\/p>\n

Each participant\u2019s healing-to-cure path\/journey will be a unique and highly creative adventure.\u00a0 The \u201cevolving consensus model of posttrauma treatment\u201d [3] is impressive and I dare ask where is this program located in Canada?\u00a0 All 7 participants qualify, need and deserve this model of care, yesterday!\u00a0 But alas, the existence of a Canadian consensus model of posttrauma care remains unknown to me.\u00a0 Until a director of such a program is identified, the SLCHG will continue taking collective leaps of faith and carry on bravely [one-day, one-step at-a-time], create, develop and implement a blueprint<\/strong> program for the benefit the participants.\u00a0 The good news is last year the DSM 5 [1] was released and PTSD is no longer classified as an anxiety disorder and instead categorized in Trauma-and Stressor-Related Disorders.<\/p>\n

No doubt, this small group of participants are pioneer healing-to-cure trailblazers.\u00a0 Their experiential process\/journey will yield some interesting fruit, specifically related to disclosures of a variety of anomalous experiences [2] as noted in their trauma histories.\u00a0 At-a-minimum and conclusion of this project; I anticipate that the \u201chealing-to-cure\u201d focus will reveal and generate a novel \u2018blueprint\u2019 program that other counsellors from across Canada can entertain\/offer to their clients.\u00a0 The potential for learning\/healing is vast.\u00a0 The success of this project rests upon Good Samaritan purses and acts: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parable_of_the_Good_Samaritan<\/a> for the participants have limited incomes to pay private practitioners for services that ought to be covered by the mental health care system.\u00a0 There is a lot of controversy in the provision of mental health care services throughout the world – money talks and leads the way.<\/p>\n

Therefore, this project is a mission of hope for survivors with C-PTSD seeking cure which remains familiar turf for me.\u00a0 After 25 years of service, I am relieved to no longer be that \u2018underground\u2019 trauma counsellor walking alone, trying my best to serve survivors cloaked in secrecy and fallen through the cracks of the systems, afraid to trust and reveal the depth of their core wound experiences and landing in my small practice.\u00a0 I personally understand their plight for I also travelled a long hard road of healing-to-cure.\u00a0 I professionally know the system is not responding to the needs of survivors with C-PTSD.\u00a0\u00a0 I continue to stand and walk beside them, both as one example of a woman who healed-to-cure.\u00a0 I remain an eternal optimist, a humble servant and similar to Siegel, but as a trauma nurse and counsellor, have witnessed many examples of the power of love, medicine and miracles [5], amazing grace \u2013 anomalous healing – the tenacity of the human spirit that sets me on fire everyday!<\/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

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

APA (2013).\u00a0 Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-5.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Washington: American Psychiatric Publishing.<\/p>\n

Cardena, E.; S.J. Lynn & S. Krippner. (2000).\u00a0 Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence.\u00a0 <\/em>Washington, DC:\u00a0 American Psychological Association<\/p>\n

Courtois, C.A. (1999).\u00a0 Recollections of Sexual Abuse: treatment principles and guidelines. <\/em>New York: W.W. 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

Siegel, B.S. (1986).\u00a0 Love, Medicine & Miracles: lessons learned about self-healing from a surgeon\u2019s experience with exceptional patients. <\/em>New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.<\/p>\n

Thompson, L.A.K. & C.A. Zimmerman (2013 – 2017).\u00a0 MOT: Pilot Project – Silver Linings Core Healing Group [SLCHG]. A Complex-Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [C-PTSD, visionary healing-to-cure, Blueprint <\/strong>experimental, experiential, applied trauma psychotherapy protocol.<\/em><\/p>\n

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