Many children survivors struggle in adulthood as they endeavor to recovery\/heal from the aftermath effects that manifest in an array of \u2018psycho-neuro-immunological\u2019 disorders, i.e. C-PTSD, substance \u2018sensitivities\u2019 with personality traits perceived as borderline or borderland [1].\u00a0 It is time for us to honor the children\u2019s wounds containing stark terror moments bound by speechless terror in the core.<\/p>\n
These heroic childhood survivors are stymied across the decades on many levels in various arenas for the fact remains: the leaders [politics] continue to resist and disavow the legitimacy of Judith Herman\u2019s 1992 proposal for the category of C-PTSD [4].\u00a0 Receiving essential health care services remains is essential care for any deeply inflicted wound upon a na\u00efve innocent and dependent being and the recovery:\u00a0 mending and healing from deep-seated [primitive] core wounds require the help of empathic others.<\/p>\n
Deficient funding is a major money <\/em>factor that crosses all cultures, socio-political boundaries <\/strong>in lands, developed and undeveloped countries, all over the planet for when it comes to \u2018who gets what\u2019 kind of health care service, especially mental health care services \u2013 only God knows and money talks<\/em>.\u00a0 During my five decade career, I have witnessed major shifts from government run\/controlled \u2018institutional\u2019 care models with staff in salaried positions into our current 21st<\/sup> Century \u2018regulated\u2019 helping professionals care model where private practice and \u201ccontractual<\/strong>\u201d funding agreements for all kinds of community \u2018care centers\u2019 operations [profit + non-profit] health care services and businesses exist.\u00a0 Slowly and surely, all the helping professionals will be \u2018regulated\u2019 where members operate private practices consumers have coverage for or are willing to pay out-of-pocket for.\u00a0 Regulated members will receive a \u2018health care provider number\u2019 <\/em>that ought to assure the public the services are bona fide, claimable and within the approved scope\/practice that is insured and supervised?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The important fact for lead, senior or in-charge<\/em> regulated professionals to be clear about is the fact that it is your regulated professional status that allows a community team approaches of care to occur in the first place.\u00a0 It is also important to note that all the care provided by allied [non-regulated] team members, union members working \u2018under the wing\u2019 of a regulated professional also caries implied responsibility, accountable and culpable that does not fall back onto the \u2018contractual agency,\u2019 the unit or particular case manager.\u00a0 Inevitable this will force all regulated professionals in private practices to incorporate their business<\/em> to protect personal assets.\u00a0 Professional care is big corporate business.<\/p>\n I humbly remain serving in the trauma trenches and no longer an underground counsellor.\u00a0 At entry level into the helping professions I was licensed and able to testified in a Winnipeg courtroom in a domestic violence case for the sake of dependent children.<\/p>\n Then, I became a regulated professional and worked in both the public [acute +long-term care facilities], while simultaneously operating a small private practice where I was perceived as eccentric and fringe by colleagues operating within the system.<\/p>\n For me, neither being regulated<\/em> or in private practice<\/em> has elevated me to any kind of credible professional status within the health care system and I never did receive a bona fide health care provider number.\u00a0 Despite achieving a doctorate [5] and fellowship credentials, the next time I appeared was in a Calgary courtroom to testify on the behalf of children.\u00a0 I had my assessment report in hand, however, my credentials and area of expertise was challenged and the judge deemed I was a novel scientist in a novel field.\u00a0 My report was submitted, reviewed and utilized by a psychiatrist during further testimony.<\/p>\n The last time I appeared in a Vancouver courtroom, pre-trail, my formal report containing a duty-to-warn of impending harm concerning children and I was received and maligned as \u201cbizarre\u201d both in and out of a provincial court room settings [unprofessional conduct][2], by attorneys working in what I have witnessed as the \u2018divorce mill\u2019 business for it reminds me of the tragedy inherent in puppy mills.\u00a0 When I did appear in court to testify, believe it or not – I was gagged, hence unable to testimony on a dependent child\u2019s behalf.\u00a0 In my opinion and in relation to my helping professions career – the status of \u2018a helping professional\u2019 has regressed, we are going down a slippery slope for experts are a commodity that supports another business and law is big corporate business too.\u00a0 The helping professionals are all now volleying for and wearing the Emperor clothes and professional respect across the disciplines is at an all time low, in my opinion.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, I shall remain in my now, unregulated and small counselling private practice serving people with C-PTSD who fall through the cracks of our big corporate businesses as long as I am helpful and retire from counselling too.\u00a0 They are neither borderline nor \u2018borderland\u2019 [1] traits when it comes to unprocessed and contained childhood wounds.\u00a0 All heroic childhood survivors of domestic violence and abuse ought to have posttrauma care established and readily available in a community, out-patient team approach of care that is paid for by the amazing health care system with all the regulated helping professionals in place to do their bottom-line duty: to serve and do no harm.\u00a0 Heroic survivors deserve this much.<\/p>\n Our personal\/professional self-development\/ governance continues to rise out of the ashes and into the hailed science-practitioner medical model of health care based on dis-ease and statistical evidence.\u00a0 The 1930\u2019s proposed human ecology and human engineering movements run by the government have been very practical and lucrative in the our goods and human services economy, but are we providing humane posttraumatic care to our children at risk and in need?\u00a0 For the heroic survivors I serve were not sheltered and who cares if they ever heal their childhood wounds resulting from negligence and abuse?\u00a0 Why are we surprised when our vulnerable battlefield survivors, at home or abroad \u2013 our children and our veterans, kill themselves or another?<\/p>\n Author:\u00a0 Dr. Linda AK Thompson, PsyD, CCC, FAAETS References:<\/p>\n
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