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Understanding Sexual Trauma: Integrating Trauma-Informed Care

Learn about sexual trauma, its impact, prevalence, and trauma-informed practices to assist survivors. Gain insights into symptoms, statistics, and ways to support survivors effectively.

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Understanding Sexual Trauma: Integrating Trauma-Informed Care

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  1. Sexual Trauma: Integrating Trauma Informed Care

  2. About the Speaker Mr. Charlie Morris, MSW, LGSW, JSOCC Founder & Director of Bayside Behavioral Health Center, LLC

  3. Learning Objectives • After completing this workshop, participants will be able to: • Identify and define various terms and behavior associated with sexual trauma • Overview of past and current research regarding youth who have experienced sexual trauma and articulate how these statistics impact participant’s professional duties • Articulate and incorporate ways to assist and encourage trauma informed practices in their professional duties

  4. What is Trauma? (Marcenich, 2009) • A traumatic event is one in which a person experiences: • Actual or threatened death • Serious Injury • Threat to the physical integrity of self or another • Prolonged exposure • Interpersonal violence

  5. Ability to Cope • Affects the “Whole Self” • Physical Emotional • Intellectual • Spiritual

  6. Trauma can be: Personal/Private Public • Sexual Assault • Sexual Abuse • Domestic/interpersonal violence • Natural disasters • War • Community Violence

  7. Defining Sexual Abuse Physical Psychological • Molestation • Rape • Sodomy • Harassment • Stalking • Trafficking • Exhibitionism • Voyeurism

  8. Its considered Abusive when…. Consent Equality Coercion

  9. Prevalence • Child abuse report made every 10 seconds (Child help, 2013) • Trauma is more prevalent in children with culturally diverse backgrounds. (Marcenich, 2009) • Children who experience CA/N: • 59% more likely to be arrested • 30% more likely to commit a violent crime

  10. Statistics • Only 3 out of every 10 rapes are reported (CDC, 2013) • 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys are sexually assaulted before the age of 18 (ACEs Study) • Highly common for youth to be exposed to more than one traumatic event in lifetime (ACEs Study)

  11. ACEs Study Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Research study of 17,000 participants Collaboration between Kaiser Permanente & CDC Trauma/Traumatic events more prevalent the previously recognized

  12. ACEs Conceptual Framework

  13. ACEs Found • 2 out of 3 have at least one ACE • 11% had 5 or more ACEs • If 4 or more Aces were present: • 7x’s to abuse alcohol • 10x’s to abuse street drugs • 12x’s to attempt suicide • 6x to be sexually assaulted • 4x to suffer from a chronic depression

  14. Survivor Statistics • 59% of females in prison • 95% of teenage prostitutes • 60% of teen mothers • 43% of adolescent runaways • 53% reported substance abusers

  15. Impact of Trauma (Hopper, 2009) Survival Response Prolonged exposure • Fight • Flight • Freeze • ANS to no longer function properly • Emotional/Physical response to stress • Emotional Numbing/Psychological Avoidance • Diminish capacity to trust others

  16. Possible Symptoms • Preschoolers • Thumb sucking • Bedwetting • Clinging to parents • Sleep disturbances • Change in appetite • Fear of dark • Regression in Behaviors • Withdraw from friends/routines

  17. Possible Symptoms • Elementary-School Children • Irritability • Aggressiveness • clinginess • Nightmares • School avoidance • Poor concentration • Withdrawal from activities & friends

  18. Possible Symptoms • Adolescents • Sleeping disturbance • Eating Disturbance • Agitation • Poor concentration • Increase in conflict • Physical complaints • Delinquent behavior

  19. Protective Factors • Can greatly reduce/eliminate trauma symptoms • Presence of caring/protective caregiver • Support and care from adults • Professional support • Peer support • Coping Skills

  20. Trauma Informed Care Avoid Re-victimization Understand Problem behaviors Maximize choices for survivor Seek cultural competent

  21. Ways Schools can help (NASP, 2015) • Report suspected abuse • Individual modifications • Assignments • Tutoring • Time with Mental health professional • Engage caregiver • Learn and assist with soothing skills

  22. Questions??

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