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Brian 48 Hanson, Rochelle 51, 54 Hershkowitz, Michal 75 Grinband, Jack 169 Hovens, Jacqueline 66 Harada, Nahoko 59 Hertzberg, Michael 122 Grogan-Kaylor, Andrew 136 Hovey, Joseph 109 Haravuori, Henna 142 Hertz, Noa 164 Gros, Daniel 84, 118, 151 Howard, Ian 153, 159 Harb, Gerlinde 48, 120, 124 Herz, Lawrence 121, 148 Grundke, Elena 95 Howard, Jamie 68, 72 Harbin, Shannon 118 Herzog, Sarah 135 Guay, Stephane 123, 133, Howell, Jennifer 129 Harley, Aikisha 158 Hess, Julia 89 134, 135, 148, 152, 155 Howell, Kathryn 60, 99, 118, Harlow, Bernard 144 Hetzel-Riggin, Melanie 132, 125 Gudmundsdottir, Berglind 65, 144 Harms, Louise 161 148, 158, 165 Hoysted, Claire 76 Gudmundsdottir, Ragnhilder Harpaz-Rotem, Ilan 164 Hien, Denise 125, 151, 169 Hruska, Bryce 93, 120 105 Harrington, Kelly 149 Higgins, Caroline 169 Hu, Emily 167 Gudmundsdottir, Ragnhildur Harrington-Lamorie, Jill 60, Higgs, Jay 53 Hughes, Michael 70, 151 65, 132 166 Hildenbrand, Aimee 117 Hughes, Tonda 57, 143 Guiney, Roxanne 83 Harris, Katherine 56, 91, 110 Hill, Stephanie 154 Hugo, Emily 73 Gulliver, Suzy 57 Hart, Roland 134 Himelhoch, Seth 157 Huh, David 57 Gurevich, Maria 133 Hassan, Sarah 105 Hirasawa, Katsumi 139 Hultman, Christina 65, 132 Gur, Ruben 124 Hasselle, Amanda 85 Hjemdal, Ole 132, 164 Hultmann, Ole 35, 62, 73 Gurtovenko, Kyrill 75 Hassija, Christina 155 Hunley, Holly 159 Final Program 174 Leili 131, 165 Reardon, Annemarie 74, 165 Rivers, Alison 134 Puro, Erin 56 Plener, Paul 131 Rebecca, Wirihana 167 Riviere, Lyndon 112 Purtle, Jonathan 169 Pless Kaiser, Anica 136 Reddy, Madhavi 104 Roberts, Andrea 114 Pury, Cindy 80 Plumb, Dorothy 121 Reed, Bruce 137 Roberts, Neil 107, 143 Pynoos, Robert 60, 74, 79 Poehacker, Stefanie 69, 91 Reed, Katherine 48 Roberts, Pamela 107 Pyszczynski, Tom 108 Pokela, Julie 101 Refsdal, Nils Olav 35, 76 Robinaugh, Don 136 Polcari, Ann 142 Reger, Greg 113, 159 Robinson, Gabriella 125 Q Polizzi, Craig 152 Reiber, Gayle 148 Robinson, Shannon 107, Reichborn-Kjennerud, Ted 131 127, 129 Polusny, Melissa 57, 119, Qian, Meng 106, 134 122, 148 Reider, Eve 96 Rochefort, Catherine 84 Quarantini, Lucas 130, 131, Polutnik, Chloe 89 137, 139, 164, 165 Reid, Gerald 111 Rockefeller, Richard 111 Ponnamperuma, Thyagi 166 Quide, Yann 97, 141 Reiland, Sarah 150 Rodgers, Carie 121, 142 Porter-Howard, LaTanya 125 Quinn, Katherine 93 Reilly, Patrick 69 Rodrigues, Helga 156 Porter, Katherine 151, 160 Reinert, Katia 128 Rodriguez, Paola 57 Possemato, Kyle 107, 149 Reinfeld, Courtney 153 Roelofsen, Ruth 168 Post, Lore 78 Reinhardt, Kristen 129 Roesch, Scott 162 Pothen, John 77 Reman, Rema 149 Roffman, Roger 127 Potthoff, Soledad 77, 165 Rensberger, Jared 128 Rogers, Arielle 135, 144 Potts, Amy 130 Renshaw, Keith 130, 155 Rogers, Karen 103 Potts, James 132 Rentz, Timothy 153 Roitman, Pablo 63 Poulain, Rachel 25 Repp, Andrea 121 Rojas, Elsa 135 Powell, Allison 148 Rojas-Flores, Lisseth 90 Alana 86, Sato, Yutaka 59 Simiola, Vanessa 141 129 Rouleau, Erica 110 Saumier, Daniel 126 Simon, Corrina 80 Sekiguchi, Atsushi 164 Rous, Dana 161 Saunders, Benjamin 35, 54, Simon, Naomi 98, 136 Self-Brown, Shannon 51 Roy, Michael 121 62, 87 Simon, Valerie 102, 125, Seligowski, Antonia 135, Rubin, David 143, 169 Sautter, Frederic 123 126, 154 144, 162 Rudat, Deirdre 152 Saxe, Glenn 47, 88, 99 Simpson, Tracy 57, 144 Selvig-Leiner, Amy 130 Ruderman, Lital 164 Sayer, Nina 57, 119, 148 Sinnott, Vikki 161 Senneseth, Mette 157 Ruff, Lindsey 169 Scaccia, Jaime 125 Skaardalsmo, Envor 92 Serafm, Paula 163, 166 Ruffn, Rachel 131 Scarafa, Marcela 119 Skarstein, Dag 168 Sexton, Minden 151, 160 Ruggiero, Kenneth 83 Schaer, Maire 96 Skeryte-Kazlauskiene, Monika Sezibera, Vincent 128, 129 Ruglass, Lesia 151 Schauer, Maggie 27, 50, 71 167 Sguigna, Tristan 164 Ruiz, Dalia 161 Schechter, Daniel 56 Skopp, Nancy 89 Shake, Mathew 128 Runtz, Marsha 99, 118, 130 Scheeringa, Michael 28, 56, Slade, Tim 136 Shalev, Arieh 63, 88, 90, Runyon, Melissa 103 78, 92 Sleijpen, Marieke 137 106 Russo, Joan 78, 83, 122, Scheiderer, Emily 117 Slone, Laurie 119, 148 Shapiro, Bruce 48 156 Schick, Matthis 86, 161 Smagur, Kathryn 154 Shapiro, Francine 34, 55 Ruzek, Josef 73, 83, 129, Schlenger, William 106 Smearman, Erica 77 Sharma, Shankari 123, 124 161 Schmahl, Christian 97 Smid, Geert 113 Shea, Amanda 120, 157 Ryabchenko, Karen 74 Schmid, Nuria 82 Smith, Alicia 72, 77 Shea, M. Tracie 104 Rynearson, Ted 52 Schmitt, Laurent 164 Smith, Amanda 131, 161 Shear, M. Katherine 136 Schmitz, Joy 124, 162 Smith, Andrew 70, 90, 133 Sheerin, Christina 96, 131 Schnurr, Paula 57, 68, 87, Smith, Annemarie 168 Shepherd, Amy 161 126, 141, 149 Smith, Brian 62, 74, 93, Sheridan, Margaret 82, 102, Schnyder, Ulrich 34, 55, 86, 120, 124 111 161 Smith, Carly 54 Shevlin, Mark 112 Schorr, Yonit 162 Smith, Cherryl 167 Final Program 180 And a special thank you to the residents of Potrero Terrace and Annex for their ongoing commitment to their community. Community development is a continuous process of identifying community needs and developing the assets to meet those needs (Green and Haines, 2007). It is well recognized that community development of public housing sites requires extensive community building, which is the active participation of residents in the process of strengthening community networks, programs and institutions (Naparstek, Dooley & Smith, 1997). This widely supported community building approach seeks to acknowledge and tap into community assets and to prioritize community member voices and engagement. However, there is a growing understanding that trauma experienced by many low-income and public housing communi ties present a challenging context for these community building efforts. Low-income and public housing residents may experience cumulative trauma resulting from daily stressors of violence and concentrated poverty, as well as historic and structural conditions of racism and disenfranchisement (Collins, et al. While there is no singular defnition of community building, most emphasize resident-driven, asset-based approaches tailored to neighborhood scale and conditions (Kingsley, McNeely & Gibson, 1999). It is now widely accepted that community building efforts in low-income and public housing neighborhoods seek to counteract the deterioration of social structures and weakened formal and informal institutions that support the life of a community (Wilson, 1987). Engage residents in planning Engage residents in planning and Lack of stability, reliability and and vision setting. Leverage community capacity to Leverage community capacity to Disempowerment and lack of a sense of solve collective problems solve collective problems community ownership. This also results in internal fighting between community stakeholders over small amounts of money. High level of personal needs Residents face daily stresses in their lives that make it hard for them to focus beyond their immediate needs. Collaborate with systems and Collaborate with systems and Depth and breadth of community needs organizations to improve social and organizations to improve social and Due to historical disinvestment in the community, community outcomes. Partner with the needs of the community are extensive and the community building efforts, city agen community stakeholders to fund the ability of community based organizations to meet cies, local foundations and other insti implementation of a program that meets those needs is limited by resources and capacity. Moreover, trauma manifests at the family and community level by altering social networks and reducing community capacity to collectively identify and address its prob lems and plan for its future. Isolating behavior and an inability to empathize with others are common reactions (Cook, Blaustein, Spinazzola and Van Der Kolk, 2005). Chronic trauma deteriorates coping mechanisms and damages healthy and trusting relationships (Collins, et. In communities with high rates of violence, many residents will not open their doors for strangers doing community building outreach, or attend community building events with other residents. Their reasoning is often real or perceived safety concerns, or an apprehension to interact with neighbors because of negative relationships or past drama (Wolin, et al. Furthermore, the traumatic history of continual re-development and social resource cuts in distressed communities has created mistrust in government and service providers that could potentially play a central role in community building efforts. Instead, many residents view plans for revitalization or proposed programs and services with skepticism. Residents are more inclined to expect to lose their housing after the renovations, rather than believe that they will be able to move back into a renovated housing unit. A person who experiences trauma may feel the world is unstable and unreliable (Cook, et. Barriers to sustaining resident participation include trauma symptoms such as disturbances of attention, memory, cognition, 07 impaired problem-solving, and behaviors that can impair rationale decision making ability (Lerner & Kennedy, 2000). As experienced in Potrero motivating residents to show up consistently and actively participate in ongoing activities is problematic, and traditional outreach tactics prove ineffective. The experience of historical and chronic trauma, caused by concentrated poverty and systemic segregation, can result in disempowerment and decreased social capital and economic resources (Wilson, 1987). Disempowered communities experience limitations on their ability to access capital and resources through existing structures and networks, and lack control over their social and political environment (Wallerstein & Bernstein, 1994). As a result, a trauma affected, disempowered community may experience a loss of the sense of self sovereignty, and instead develop a spectrum of reactions to outside groups, from obedience to aggression (Wesley-Esquimaux & Smolewski, 2004). At Potrero, and in many other public housing developments, as is often the case in public housing developments, residents have had negative relationships and experiences with housing management or public agencies; they may harbor resentment or feel remiss to personally invest in their public housing community. The community response to inequitable, traumatizing relationships becomes a barrier to stakeholder collaboration for community building. Many public housing residents have faced persistent barriers to personal and economic growth. If they are also dealing with trauma, they may experience depression and related hopelessness as symptoms (Scher & Resick, 2005). On a practical level, new research shows that the everyday concerns of surviving in poverty create such a mental burden that there is little cognitive capacity available to plan and excel in other aspects of life (Mani, Mullainathan, Shafr & Zhao, 2013). Individuals and families with overwhelming life experiences may have trouble visioning the future, which inhibits them from taking action towards positive change and a better future (Bloom, 2007). In Potrero, as in many communities, maintaining resident engagement and investment in a long-term change process is an ongoing challenge. Many public housing residents deal with the instability and isolation of poverty in their daily lives. Their ability to schedule or be punctual is compromised by the obligation to meet daily needs for themselves and their families. Many adults in impoverished neighborhoods such as Potrero lack professional skills and the opportunities to acquire them, due to low educational attainment, poor overall health, substance abuse history or the variety of other access barriers related to poverty and institutionalized racism. Substance use issues are common in in Potrero and other trauma affected communities, further complicating issues of participation and engagement in activities. In addition, wariness of service settings and outsider professionals, as well as cultural and logistical barriers can deter families from accessing services and supports (de Arellano, Ko, Danielson & Sprague, 2008). Residents affected by trauma require a breadth and depth of resource and time intensive services to facilitate their participation in community building efforts. The impacts of sustained trauma and persistent stress on a community result in challenges to traditional community building strategies. Trauma informed intervention models do not aim to treat trauma directly, but welcome community members, acknowledge their special needs, and have the capacity to identify trauma and its relation to other issues in their lives. Programs and services without a trauma informed approach may fail to engage community members, to sustain their participation or to provide them with positive outcomes. The principles are not specifc procedures but instead a set of values that infuence all of the work. It is also important to acknowledge that traumatized communities face ongoing insecurities around the sustainability of programs, services and institutional relationships. Inclusiveness is core to community development in trauma affected neighborhoods, where generations have been marginal ized from development processes and excluded from reaping the benefts. Community empowerment theory explains the importance of equitable participation and accountability among stakeholders to build community 1 1 perception of ownership over change (Freire, 1970; Maton, 2008). The process of empowerment begins at any stage of readiness to ensure community members feel control over the change that they are experiencing. It prioritizes working towards distinct community building outcomes, such as increased social cohesion, resilience and collective vision of change. First, stake holders should express acceptance of the experiences and circumstances of individuals, no matter if they may pose a challenge to community building activities. Due to the nature of traumatic experience and symptoms, individuals may engage in seemingly unhealthy or destructive behaviors. However, this does not preclude them from having leadership qualities and being able to contribute to their communities over time. Next, it may take multiple touches, or interactions to recruit an individual to participate in an activity, engage with the overall community building process and eventually offer positive contributions to community change. Frequent touches must be intentional and authentic, to build credible relationships. Social cohesiveness is a resilience factor that can both protect residents from the impact of trauma, as well as contribute to the prevention of future triggers. Activities at the interpersonal relational level can be valuable simply by creating opportunities for personal sharing and mutual support that become positive shared memories, in addition to any other tangible outcomes. Another objective of trauma informed community building activities is that they model healthy behaviors, and develop family and community norms that perpetuate healthy behaviors. The sharing of positive norms and the awareness built by modeling them to the community, can support collective infuence and engagement in the community building process. Peer-to-peer strategies involve community residents working to address community issues by serving as a source of information, bridge to services, advocate for community needs, facilitator of community action and organizer of community building activities. In many trauma affected communities there is a collective memory of public programs and services that were ineffective or ended without delivering on promised benefts. Opportunities are provided for residents to play a role in decision-making, set the agenda, and reap the benefts of their collective actions. All stakeholders receive regular and dependable communications about past and upcoming community building activities and events, so that an inclusiveness sense of awareness is built around the process. Activities are designed to cultivate community leadership through support and skill building, to encourage a sense of ownership and to ensure that sustainability is a criterion for implementation and involvement in community efforts. It also builds the capacity of service pro viders to build partnerships for long-term investments in community change and effective service delivery, within a trauma informed service system. By encouraging community feedback, alongside frequent and transparent com munication of the purpose and intention of all activities to all stakeholders, in clusive systems are developed that advance long-term community vision and develop a community wide strategy to reach goals. Furthermore, using a trauma informed approach to community building paves the way for the effective delivery of individual, family and community services, as well as providing the foundation for a healthy, sustainable and thriving neighborhood. Supporting the development and implementation of trauma informed services is an essential role for community building work and critical to the overall success of housing transformation efforts. Increasing the stages of readiness in public housing and trauma affected communities requires developers to prioritize community building as a frst and essential step in their redevelopment efforts. These resources would be well spent as they are critical to ensure the effectiveness of all investments in programs and services and to meet the long-term vision of a thriving and revitalized community. Family instability and the problem behaviors of children from economically disadvantaged families. Defning community capacity: A framework and implications from a comprehensive community initiative. Understanding the impact of trauma and urban poverty on family systems: Risks, resilience, and interventions. 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The fndings of such research are crucial to efectively address the needs of adult survivors of child abuse, and to formulation of efective guidelines which can assist in this regard. Towards a paradigm shift the signifcance of the new research in challenging previous understandings cannot be overstated. To this extent, it is possible to speak of nothing less than a paradigm shift: the feld of mental health is in a tremendously exciting period of growth and conceptual reorganization. Independent fndings from a variety of scientifc endeavours are converging in an interdisciplinary view of the mind and mental well-being. Increasingly sophisticated understanding of brain plasticity, and of the vital role of early care-giving relationships in this regard, is leading to realisation of the formative power of social experience in 99 Daniel J. Early onset trauma pertains especially and particularly to trauma experienced in childhood. It can now be shown that social and environmental factors impact brain development and functioning; ie the very formation of the self. This includes updated understanding of the legacy of child abuse, and revised guidelines for service-provision to survivors of it. The extent to which emotional and psychological experience can now be physiologically correlated with neurological functioning represents enormous opportunities for revised practice across a range of disciplines and services. Yet it needs to be reiterated that while novel in its utilisation of technological advances unavailable to previous eras, contemporary neuroscientifc research also bears out key insights of early work on trauma. This is not only because it gives depth and dimension to previous understandings of trauma and its many efects. In providing the objective correlates of adverse experience, current neuroscientifc fndings pave the way for enhanced treatments of the negative efects, and even for their interception and pre-emption. This is even to the extent of psychotherapeutic principles now being seen not only as compatible with neuroscientifc principles, but as convergent with them. This is also to underline the diverse legacy of Freud, which, as discussed in chapter 1, is more ambivalent with respect to the objective reality of child abuse. The following summary of key research fndings makes this point clearly: Endogenous opioids, which relieve pain in fght-or-fight situations, can have a profound efect on reality testing and memory processing when released in response to a variety of emotional situations unrelated to danger. Higher opioid levels result not only in analgesia, but also in emotional blunting and difculties with reality testing. More likely, they are also involved with dissociative reactions, and the experience of depersonalization and derealisation, both of which provide an experience of distance from the traumatised body (Shilony & Grossman, 1993). Opioids are also related to self-harm in adults abused as children (van der Kolk, 1994). Dominant in the early years of life, the right brain hemisphere is also linked to pre-verbal experience. Right-brain functioning is critical in ways that extend well beyond initial understandings of it, and which can 119 Cozolino, the Neuroscience of Psychotherapy, p. The process by which this takes place is explicated in detail by Allan Schore; see, for example, Afect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self (New York: Norton, 2003). For example, it is now seen as important not only to the ability to recognise the emotional states of others (empathy) but to the crucial capacity to regulate the self. If they are repetitive, fxed or rigid, there is no way to process the negative emotion that the trauma creates, and the efects become cumulative (Kahn, 1963). Ideally, small and even large-T traumatizing experiences are processed in the parent-child dyad. The negative efects on infants of parental attunement defcits are also borne out by studies of maternal depression; see Cozolino, the Neuroscience of Psychotherapy, p. Porges, the Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation (New York: Norton, 2011), pp. It also suggests the potential for interception of patterns of relating which are less than optimal; a possibility which is now spawning a wide range of interest, publications and parenting programs. The process by which early relational trauma takes place in the context of early care giving is now an area into which we have considerably more insight. In light of the increasingly understood centrality of the right-hemisphere of the brain to social connectedness, self-regulatory capacity and development pe se, parental attunement to the emotional needs of the infant is no less vital than is attentiveness to physical needs. Siegel and Mary Hartzell, Parenting from the Inside Out (New York: Penguin, 2004). Defcient care-giving relationships require recruitment of support and comfort from other sources, whether within and/or outside the self. Current neuroscientifc research is also leading to more sophisticated understanding of the workings of memory. This relates not only to how we remember, but to the diferent types of memory involved. Because early experience occurs when the right-brain hemisphere is dominant, it is remembered implicitly rather than consciously (ie in contrast to conscious memory which is linked to subsequent development of the left-brain hemisphere). If insecure early attachment of various kinds can generate the above trajectory, the efects of early onset trauma in the context of child abuse are particularly stark. These efects are particularly incapacitating with early onset (childhood) trauma, due to the vulnerability of the developing brain. The research leaves little doubt about the severity of the legacy of complex trauma in general and of child abuse in particular. Fortunately and correspondingly, the implications for intercession and addressing of such legacies, as well as for prior interception of their transmission, are no less dramatic. As Fosha also elaborates, `when even defensive eforts are overwhelmed by the disruptive emotions resulting from unreliable caregiving, we are in the realm of disorganized attachment (Main, 1995, 1999). Such experience is unconscious, stored in implicit (rather than explicit, conscious) memory, and is unwittingly activated by subsequent life experiences.

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Physical Emotional or Spiritual Interpersonal Behavioural Cognitive Unexplained depression loss of meaning, frequent conflict substance use chronic pain or or faith in relationships Anxiety difficulty numbness loss of lack of trust enjoying time Anger stress-related connection to: with family/ management difficulty conditions. With a greater understanding of the many barriers some people face, she now works with these individuals to help figure out what is getting in the way of making appointments and how to make it easier/reduce barriers. Practitioners need to know as much as possible about the individual they are supporting. Unfortunately, the behaviours and responses of those with trauma experiences are often misunderstood and labelled in stigmatizing and deficit-based ways. The practitioner may not know the whole story; however, working in this way helps you uncover many layers and complexities and may require adaptation of the approach accordingly. Sandra Bloom and colleagues have documented how organizations are vulnerable to the impact of trauma and chronic stress, and how important it is for whole organizational cultures to shift, towards democratic, non-violent (safe), emotionally intelligent ways of working in order for trauma-informed practice to thrive [38]. As such, key to preparing for trauma-informed practice is engaging all staff in discussion and action on becoming trauma informed. Appendix 2 provides a checklist to kickstart organizational level discussions and action toward becoming trauma-informed. This is visibly apparent with more marginalized and traumatized populations who struggle to make an initial connection and subsequently may not return trauma or follow-up. Often these individuals and families are skill Building informed and engaging members of communities who have faced systemic practice empowerment principles forms of discrimination, and/or are living in a social context that has been shaped by historical inequities [56]. Although engagement is an ongoing process, woven throughout all interactions, it is foundational and merits distinction as an essential component of trauma-informed practice. These principles are relevant whether someone is voluntarily seeking support or has been mandated or compelled by an external source. It is also important to consider age, developmental, and cultural factors as part of effective and respectful engagement. Principles in Practice Safety & Trustworthiness Depending on the type of trauma experienced, individuals may feel unsafe in new environments and have difficulty trusting others and their intentions. People come to services with a whole host of life experiences that shape how they feel, what they think, and how they respond to interacting with practitioners and services. Recognizing this is powerful, both for the practitioner and for the individual accessing services. Instead they may be influenced by what has come before, or perhaps expectations of what is to come. For the individual accessing services, it gives permission to have reactions without feeling like they are disrespecting a system or an individual practitioner. Some of the individuals accessing services may even be currently living in unsafe circumstances such as violent relationships [58]. There are a number of ways practitioners make physical and emotional safety and trustworthiness explicit: 1. For example, individuals from cultures that have experienced intergenerational oppression or refugees distrusting of governmental organizations. Wherever possible, support the individual to make contact by phone, online, or in person. It is neither safe nor possible for either party to have a helpful conversation if the individual is intoxicated. Ask for trauma details only when it is necessary for trauma-specific interventions. For example, offer support to parents, keeping in mind legal responsibility to report child welfare concerns and make referrals as needed. Often, Aboriginal clients will not interact well with health systems, procedures or personnel, fearful that their traumatic experiences of neglect, disrespect and racism will re-occur. In summary, this gives the practitioner the actions: to reassure, to build trust, to acknowledge past trauma, to not blame the person, and be prepared to hear and to help them when the opportunity occurs. As professionals, we explained that if we needed to make the call, we would invite them to be in the room with us, to be able to hear our end of the conversation, if they wanted. Right to Complain For more information go to: camh ca/en/hospital/visiting camh/ rights and policies/Documents/billofclientrights pdf Collaboration & Choice Experiences of trauma often leave individuals feeling powerless, with little choice or control over what has happened to them (interpersonal violence, natural disaster, etc. It is imperative in trauma-informed practice that every effort is made to empower individuals (when working with children and youth, strategies for empowerment should be consistent with developmental stage). Offering choice, whenever possible, gives control and responsibility back to individuals. Choice can relate to all aspects of service, for example: how they will be contacted; who will be involved in their care; and what the priorities and goals of treatment will be [57]. Having a sense of personal control in interactions with practitioners who have more power is crucial to engagement and establishing and maintaining safety [53]. Inquiring about others who may be helpful to include in some aspect of their care (a support person, another professional, etc. This is especially important when speaking through an interpreter or with someone who has cognitive challenges [53]. The clinician pointed out that counselling was a voluntary service and it was up to him to decide if he wanted to take this opportunity to work on some of the issues that may have contributed to him being on probation and try to avoid it happening again in the future. What trauma is important in the process of skill Building informed and engaging screening and/or engagement is to practice empowerment principles notice signs of trauma, and to help potential treatment participants to manage these. At the same time, there is consensus in the literature making the links Asking about around the importance of asking with trauma traumafi There are varying perspectives on how much information should be gathered at intake, how information should be gathered, and when/if questions should be asked at all. On the one hand, there are concerns that if service providers ask too much, too soon, too directly, people may feel unsafe and may not engage with services. Some would even argue that past trauma should not be asked about directly at all, especially if the resources are not available to respond. On the other hand, if practitioners do not notice and discuss trauma symptoms, individuals may go untreated or not receive appropriate care. Another consideration is that, for some, violence/trauma may have become normalized and they may not identify their experiences as traumatic, and this could potentially be missed as a contributing factor to their current health. Some programs may gather such details as when the trauma occurred and how the experience is impacting current functioning [56]. Alternatively, a more informal approach may be taken in some settings, one that minimizes the amount of information gathered and recognizes the importance of establishing safety, adequate support, and coping to manage trauma disclosures [56]. It may be helpful for practitioners to know that overall, the evidence indicates that when discussion about violence and trauma is takes place in a trauma-informed way, this does not lead to traumatic stress responses [36, 63]. It is important to approach any questions about trauma from an age developmental and culturally sensitive perspective. When working with children and youth, it is important to know if there is unreported abuse and if they are currently safe from harm. In addition to creating space for discussion of past experiences of violence/trauma, practitioners also need to be aware of the potential current safety concerns and not make assumptions that the violence is only historical (see safety planning resources in Appendix 4: Asking about trauma and responding to disclosure). Guidelines Although there will be variation in screening/assessment practices, the following guidelines assist practitioners in these important and sensitive conversations [27, 53, 58, 64]: 1. Remember that screening/assessment is also about engagement and relationship building. Keep the conversation safe, contained, and connected to present functioning and health. Practitioners do not need to know the details of the trauma experience to provide trauma-informed care. For example, remind the client that they can choose whether or not they answer questions, when they need to take a break, etc. Provide a rationale for asking questions about trauma and normalize the process by explaining or otherwise indicating that trauma reactions are normal, expected, and part of our survival mechanism. Pay attention to signs of a trauma response (see Possible Signs of a Trauma Response table below). If a trauma response occurs, pause the conversation, help the individual to connect to the present moment, and provide supportive containment and grounding (see Section 4. Having familiarity and ease with the screening and assessment tools and processes helps ensure that the relationship will not be compromised. Avoid creating a power dynamic by limiting the number of questions asked in a row. Use clinical judgment in terms of when not to ask, for example, when someone is in crisis, when there is a high level of emotion (such as anger), when someone is in the acute stages of substance withdrawal/intoxication or psychosis, or when basic immediate needs and current safety are paramount.

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Sensory median nerve is 1024 successive evoked action duration varied from affected more than the stimuli. These tests are moderate to high cost, but are recommended for evaluation of select patients suspected of having occult fractures of the hamate or mass lesions. Initial Care Ulnar neuropathy at the wrist that is not related to trauma, such as from the use of wheelchair, crutches, or other equipment may benefit initially from non-invasive therapies and activity adjustments including elimination or mitigation of significant pressure points. Of the 1 articles considered for inclusion, 0 randomized trials and 1 systematic study met the inclusion criteria. Activity modification to avoid focal mechanical compression and the use of the hypothenar area as a hammer are thought to be important and are recommended. If the mechanism involves tendon sheaths and related structures, then these medications would be predicted to be ineffective for ulnar neuropathy at the wrist. However, if through another mechanism of action directly involving the nerve sheath, then these injections could be effective. These treatments are not invasive to low invasive, have few adverse effects and are low to moderate cost. Evidence for the Use of Glucocorticosteroids There are no quality studies incorporated into this analysis. Physical Methods/Rehabilitation Recommendation: Physical Methods/Rehabilitation for Acute, Subacute, or Chronic Ulnar Neuropathy at the Wrist There is no recommendation for or against the use of physical methods/rehabilitation. Evidence for the Use of Physical Methods/Rehabilitation There are no quality studies incorporated into this analysis. Of the 0 articles considered for inclusion, 0 randomized trials and 0 systematic studies met the inclusion criteria. Many patients with chronic findings and functional deficits and post-operative patients require some appointments to at minimum help institute a home exercise program. Surgery Space occupying lesions with significant motor or sensory deficits generally have been reported in the literature as requiring surgical decompression (or needle aspiration of ganglia) with excellent results and rapid recovery of deficits. In addition to lesion type, consideration may be influenced by the presence of diabetes mellitus. Although there are not quality studies, there may be a stronger indication for decompression of peripheral nerve entrapment syndromes in diabetic patients. In a case series of diabetics with peripheral neuropathy, decompression surgery improved sensory function in 88% of upper extremities and 69% of lower extremities compared with 32% of patients that were treated non operatively. It is recommended for select patients who failed trials of other non-operative treatments or if space occupying lesions are present. Evidence for the Use of Electrodiagnostic Studies There are no quality studies incorporated into this analysis. Of the 3 articles considered for inclusion 2 diagnostic studies met the inclusion criteria. Initial Care Overall, the literature suggests patients most often appear to respond to non-operative treatments including no treatment; avoidance of exposures thought to be contributing (if present); avoidance of wearing a watch, tight jewelry or shirt sleeves on the affected side; corticosteroid injection;(1126) and temporary thumb spica splinting. Evidence for the Use of Splints There are no quality studies incorporated into this analysis. Follow-up Visits Follow-up visits are generally required every 2 to 4 weeks to evaluate efficacy of interventions until resolution of the condition. If the mechanism involves tendon sheaths and related structures, then these medications would be predicted to be ineffective for distal radial neuropathies. These treatments are not invasive to low invasive, have few adverse effects, and are low to moderate cost. Of the 3 articles considered for inclusion, 0 randomized trials and 3 systematic studies met the inclusion criteria. Physical Methods/Rehabilitation Recommendation: Physical Methods (Iontophoresis, Self-application of Ice or Heat, Manipulation and Mobilization, Massage, Friction Massage, or Acupuncture) for Acute, Subacute, or Chronic Radial Neuropathy at the Wrist There is no recommendation for or against the use of physical methods for treatment of acute, subacute, or chronic radial neuropathy at the wrist including iontophoresis, self-application of ice or heat, manipulation and mobilization, massage, friction massage, or acupuncture. There are reports of benefits from massage, but no quality studies, thus there is no recommendation for massage. Many patients with chronic findings, functional deficits and post-operative patients require some appointments to at minimum help institute a home exercise program. Evidence for the Use of Exercise There are no quality studies incorporated into this analysis. Surgery Recommendation: Surgical Release for Subacute or Chronic Radial Nerve Compression Neuropathy Surgical release is recommended for subacute or chronic cases of radial nerve compression neuropathy that persist despite other interventions. There are no quality studies evaluating the efficacy of surgical intervention for distal radial neuropathies. Of the 4 articles considered for inclusion, 0 randomized trials and 2 systematic studies met the inclusion criteria. Non-Specific Hand, Wrist, and Forearm Pain Diagnostic Criteria Non-specific pain is not a discrete diagnosis, per se, but the absence of a discrete diagnosis. Recommendation: Rheumatological Studies for Arthralgias Rheumatological studies are recommended for evaluation of patients with persistent unexplained arthralgias or tenosynovitis. Recommendation: Arthrocentesis for Joint Effusions Arthrocentesis (joint aspiration) of inexplicable joint effusions, particularly for evaluation of infections and crystalline arthropathies is recommended. Arthrocentesis is also helpful for securing important diagnoses, such as septic arthritis and crystalline arthropathies. Evidence for the Use of Rheumatological Studies and Joint Aspiration There are no quality studies incorporated into this analysis. However, electrodiagnostic studies may assist in diagnosing and treating the condition and thus are recommended. Evidence for the Use of Electrodiagnostic Studies There is 1 low-quality study in Appendix 2. Of the 11358 articles considered for inclusion, 1 randomized trials and 1 systematic studies met the inclusion criteria. X-rays may assist in diagnosing and treating the condition and thus are recommended. Evidence for the Use of X-rays There is 1 moderate-quality study incorporated into this analysis. Of the 1 articles considered for inclusion, 0 randomized trials and 0 systematic studies met the inclusion criteria. This intervention is not invasive, has low adverse effects, and for short periods is low to moderate cost, thus it is recommended. Evidence for the Use of Relative Rest There are no quality studies incorporated into this analysis. Splinting may at times be helpful, but enforces debility, thus there is no recommendation for or against its use. These interventions are not invasive, have low adverse effects, and are low cost, and thus are recommended. Evidence for the Use of Ice/Heat There are no quality studies incorporated into this analysis. Follow-up Visits Patients may require 1 to 3 appointments depending on the severity or the pain and need for workplace limitations. They are not invasive, have few adverse effects in employed populations, and are low cost. Of the 3 articles considered for inclusion, 2 randomized trials and 1 systematic studies met the inclusion criteria. Physical Methods Recommendation: Physical or Occupational Therapy for Acute, Subacute, or Chronic Non-specific Hand, Wrist, or Forearm Pain There is no recommendation for or against the use of physical or occupational therapy for treatment of acute, subacute, or chronic non-specific hand, wrist, or forearm pain. These treatments are not invasive, have few adverse effects, but are moderate to high cost depending on number of treatments. Trials of these modalities may be helpful in cases that do not resolve with initial treatment methods outlined above. Evidence for the Use of Physical or Occupational Therapy There are no quality studies incorporated into this analysis. One moderate quality study of mostly chronic patients found no differences between two types of exercise programs, but had no control group. Of the 1 articles considered for inclusion, 1 randomized trials and 0 systematic studies met the inclusion criteria. Scaphoid Fracture Diagnostic Criteria A clinical impression is made upon history of appropriate injury mechanism, physical examination findings of substantial tenderness particularly over the scaphoid tubercle. Findings of snuffbox tenderness, positive axial compression of thumb test, and effusion in the wrist (possibly echymosis) should be sought. Fracture is not always confirmed on initial standard wrist x-rays, although those fractures identified later are by definition non-displaced and have good clinical outcomes with subsequent non-operative treatment. Recommendation: Follow-up X-rays for Scaphoid Fractures Follow-up x-rays in 2 weeks are recommended for evaluation of potential scaphoid fractures,(1131) particularly for patients with a high clinical suspicion of fracture, but negative initial x-rays.

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