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How can we help people move from post-traumatic stress to post-traumatic growth? Insights from work with the Youth Justice System
No full textAims
This presentation examines the phenomenon of post-traumatic growth, what is known about the factors that increase its likelihood and ways of enabling post-traumatic growth in others and perhaps ourselves.
Background
A significant number of individuals who experience trauma events not only survive their experiences but are also able to process what has occurred in ways that lead to beneficial changes in their lives. These beneficial changes suggest an ability to come to terms with the trauma itself and to find meaning in their experiences from which they can grow.
Method(s)
The presentation draws on data from the researchers’ own work with post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth over many years in different contexts. The presentation also draws on our current work with colleagues in the Youth Justice system which supports front line workers in understanding the role of trauma in youth offending and how to enable post-traumatic growth in youth offenders.
Findings
This presentation synthesizes current knowledge concerning the nature of post-traumatic growth and how to enable it. In reviewing the findings of the researchers’ own work as well as the trauma literature, there is evidence to suggest that post-traumatic growth is a realizable outcome for many. Next steps in this line of work are considered in furthering our collective understanding of what it takes for individuals to move from surviving to thriving
Behind / Underneath/ Interlacing: Damisch and Krauss Apropos the In(-)Visbility of the Theoretical Object
No full textThis presentation will explore some commonalities between Hubert Damisch and the North American art critic Rosalind Krauss. Damisch, in his engagements with Jackson Pollock, Jean Dubuffet, and François Rouan, explored how these artworks, their status as “theoretical objects” aligned with cognizing their material depth, their layering of paint and canvas to generate complex epistemological effects, as coextensive with how surface marks that depth, indirectly demonstrating painting’s “underneath.”
Krauss, in her 1993 book The Optical Unconscious, diagrams the surface of the archetypal modernist painting as the self-purported manifestation of its immediacy. And yet, in unexpected ways, her understanding of Pollock parallels Damisch’s inasmuch as she, too, perceives an “underneath” or “behind” that also complicates the sheer surfaceness of the modernist canvas.
Damisch goes without mention in The Optical Unconscious, but this presentation will contend that his understanding of modernism’s materiality crucially inflects her own revisionary account. Yet Krauss’ appropriation of structuralism and Jacques Lacan’s L-Schema ultimately operates to chart the exhaustion of painting, its finitude, thereby rendering its “underneath” as a “beyond” explorable only by other mediums. My presentation, then, will seek to adjust Krauss’ argument by revisiting it via Damisch’s thoughts, and taking this “beyond” back into, and as interlaced with, the surface of painting
Reading M. R. James, visually
No full textMany ghost stories contravene the adage “seeing is believing” by imagining the revenant through other affects disclosing a malign presence—the chill in the air, arm hairs suddenly standing erect, the almost sixth sense that there is something else there. But emerging from the ever-more sophisticated optical technologies of the nineteenth century developed in support of empiricist worldviews, and perhaps even through his directorship of the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge, M. R. James’ writings evince a fascination with the visual.
Taking manifold forms, that fascination appears as images (“The Mezzotint”), the usage of vision-aiding instruments (binoculars in “A View from a Hill”), and a repeated engagement with the marginalia of ecclesial details in books and architecture. James, on occasion, seems enmeshed within the pictorial representations of John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough as if he was mapping a distinctly English literary version of the landscape that differs from the literary impressionism of a Joseph Conrad.
There is an easily missed darkness underpinning notions of the picturesque that thus becomes visible in James’ writings, almost as if there was no need for him to turn towards the genre of the gothic as such. Such darkness exists in a manner that coincides with the visual recording of the phantasmagorical in the late nineteenth century. This talk will therefore speculate on the distinct visualities operative in James’ ghost stories
Frontiers of practice: trauma-informed self care for coaching psychologists
No full textPurpose: Trauma informed practice has become widespread across a number of fields. However, for practitioners working with trauma there is clear evidence of negative impacts. Self-care has become central to the provision of effective trauma informed practice from engagement with impacted clients. This paper will explore ways to ensure self-care for coaching psychologists working in this field pf practice.
Background: The presenters have between them worked in a number of different areas of trauma informed practice and in particular recently in the youth justice system supporting practitioners. Published Trauma Informed Practice Guidelines have looked at the importance of a whole systems approach which includes care for staff not just clients. Research in the field demonstrates the importance of this approach.
Methods: Following a detailed literature review and analysis of experiences of practitioners in different fields we have identified a number of valued self-care practices. These will be briefly introduced.
Key Points: The key argument is the focus on the critical importance of self-care in a fully integrated trauma informed practice setting.
Conclusions: The key policy implication is for services and practitioners themselves to ensure that self-care forms part of any trauma informed service provision
Managerial belonging: the positive side of hybrid work.
No full textThis article explores the impact hybrid work has on managerial belonging. Whilst there is growing interest on the impact of hybrid work, less is know on how this shift to distance working has on managers. This article explores the impact hybrid work has on managerial belonging. The study asks: Who is supporting the manager
