Mental Care Report Assignment PDF

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Introduction
The objective of this mental care is to develop a positive environment around an
individual that is suffering from some kind of trauma in the form of violence, accident as well as
setback incidents. This report is focused on providing help to individuals who are suffering from
three different states of trauma. It also includes implication of various strategies and their
outcome in these cases of trauma.
Principles of Trauma-informed care
Trauma-informed care actually follows five principles that act as a foundation for mental
care which helps in reducing trauma situations by using re-traumatization process. In addition,
these principles are made comprehensive in order to adopt various settings (Bowen & Murshid,
2016). These principles help in ensuring physical and emotional safety of a person by identifying
steps that can offer proper trauma-informed care. Another important element of this framework
is that an individual must be aware about service of the provider (Marsac et al., 2016).
Trustworthiness is considered evident in terms of establishment and steadiness related to the
applications. It is a common fact that if individual is offered choices related to this service, they
are likely to take more participation in these events (Kusmaul, Wilson & Nochajski, 2015).
These principles help in exploring strength of the individual that can be used in building positive
feelings in order to suppress negative trauma vibes.
According to various reports, it has been explored that out of 3 women 1 woman have
experienced domestic violence in Australia. Almost 40% of domestic violence is being
experienced by these women through their partners. These kinds of violence give rise to trauma
condition which has a direct impact on the mental ability of the individual. One such case is
discussed in which women is facing domestic violence from her partner. In this situation,
trauma-informed care plays a very important role in attending these individuals by offering them
emotional and physical safety (Machtinger et al., 2015). Trauma-informed care program helps in
increasing their access to economic, physical safety and legal protection with the help of trauma-
informed method. In this approach, her psychological strength was increased so that she can
handle various situations in which she can face complex issues. Trauma-informed care helped in
rebuilding her life by eliminating factors which contributes traumatic effect on her mind. In this
case, it has been found that individual is not aware of trauma concept and she was believing that
it is all about strength that aids in handling these situations. In this situation, survival was
informed about all the ill effects of trauma on her physical as well as mental health. She was
informed that it has no link with any spiritual values. She was also informed that everybody has a
natural way to respond to certain situations so that she can counter her reaction towards
weakness. Next step was to allow her to share her experience related to domestic violence which
she is facing (Cleary & Hungerford, 2015). This will help in understand her state of mind and
will help in setting program as per her requirement. Then, this woman was offered with resource
by which she can return to her previous state by driving a sense of hope in her. This individual

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was offered with various references which were related to her situation. Conducting a workshop
in which people related to these situations can interact with each other in the form of discussion,
debate and so on. This platform helped this individual to believe that there are many women like
her (Wilson, Fauci & Goodman, 2015). Then a training program was conducted which way
based on building mental and physical strength through various exercises such as dancing, yoga
and gardening. References theories that were linked with conflict management played a very
important role in creating a positive environment around her. A drastic change was noticed in her
after this training through performance measurement system in terms of her physical and mental
ability.
There is one case in which an individual is suffering trauma from mental disorders due to
anxiety and depression. It has been explored that reason behind this substance abuse situation is
bad experience during childhood in the form of bully. This resulted in a continuous connection
between series of stress disorder related in their childhood. In this situation, Trauma-informed
care helped in fast recovery of this person. Trauma-informed care process used various steps in
improving stress disorder of this person (Levenson, Willis & Prescott, 2016). First step was
making this person aware of his present situation which is impacting his mental ability. Then this
person was analyzed on the base of behaviour change in the form of emotions, presentation, and
physical development. It was found that a history of bad experience has created stress on his
mental ability which he was not aware. From years this person was taking it lightly which was
getting worst day by day. Then next step adopted in this process was exploring the exact element
which was impacting physical development of this person. In this process, it was found that this
person was not able to express his emotions in front of other people and keeps his emotion
restricted to him which has given rise to this stress disorder (Murphy, Moore, Redd & Malm,
2017). Then this process tried to understand an environment which promotes this situation by
focusing on the history of negative experience that person has suffered. Then next step was to
find out a better way of traumatization with minimum risk. In this step, practical reexamine of
treatment strategy was adopted in order to distress present character of traumatic experience.
Individual was told to wear a sign which resembles his treatment issue in the group and then
another client comes in play and started abusing the individual without any intervention. Label
behaviour reaction of an individual with respect to incident. Care has been taken in this program
because every individual reaction is unique to certain trauma experience. This kind of workshop
helped in building inner strength of the individual which has proven to be helpful in handle stress
situations (Riebschleger, Day & Damashek, 2015). In addition, Trauma-informed care creates
such a positive environment that a person not only started enjoying the group company but also
started actively participating in the workshop. This intervention has actually brought a positive
change in the behaviour of this person by empowering him through reinforcement process
related to his surroundings.
Another case is of solider which has spent half of his life in war and was continuously
suffering from PTSD and depression. It has been explored that these people have actually seen

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the dark side of life and therefore it becomes very challenging to work on these individuals
because their mental state has gone beyond recovery point. In this situation, Trauma-informed
care played a very critical role in recovery solider mental state and try to bring them back in
normal life routine. This person was found near danger zone in which he may attempt suicide
which many of the served solider have already done (Currier, Stefurak, Carroll & Shatto, 2017).
Trauma-informed care tried to explore the setting in which his life was in danger and wanted to
hurt someone. In this step, Trauma-informed care tried to find out mental situation of the patient
in current situation so that they can decide a precise re-traumatization process by considering a
safe environment. Then they tried to understand the suicidal tendency of this person in order to
understand further escalation points. Person was treated under cognitive behavioural therapy in
which this person was offered a warm welcome in order to make him home-like feeling. Then
this person was provided counseling in the community form because it has been explored that
these people recover faster in community settings as compared to individual counseling (Currier,
Holland & Malott, 2015). Then a group discussion was carried out where this person shared his
war experience with other members and these members in return appreciate him for his sacrifices
and honor him with their love and gratitude. Then person was moved towards his hobbies in
order to find out point where this PSTD person can be diverted in order to readjust his life. Then
this person was connected with other veterans who have already gone through this situation.
These veterans shared their journey right from PSTD conditions to living a normal life with this
person (Butler et al., 2015). This experience actually offered a sense of hope in the inner mind of
the person by filling him with positive vibes. Then a series of exercises and events were planned
such as meditation section, games, gardening and dancing in order to bring positive change in the
person. In this case, recovery time was long but positive change was granted because this person
was kept distance from all negative events and was offered an environment full of positivity and
happens.
Conclusion
At present Trauma-informed care plays a very critical role in recovering people who are
suffering some mental disorder due to some bad experiences in their life. It helps in exploring
those trigger point which remain hidden in the person and creates barrier in readjusting. Trauma-
informed care brings a change in current behaviour and mental state of the person in order to
empower them over possible negative events.

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