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Trauma Informed Practice

Join the Johnson County Bench Bar Conference on April 3, 2019, with Kay McCarthy to explore trauma-informed legal practice. Learn the impact of trauma on case outcomes, challenges to representation, and strategies for building a supportive client relationship. Understand the significance of adverse childhood experiences and how to address burnout and vicarious trauma. Equip yourself with tools to navigate interactions with clients sensitively and effectively in this insightful event.

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Trauma Informed Practice

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  1. Trauma Informed Practice Johnson County Bench Bar Conference April 3, 2019 Kay McCarthy

  2. What we will cover

  3. Our Parent’s Response to Trauma • Here's a dime kid...go call someone who cares. • Stop crying before I give you something to cry about! • You're not made of sugar, you won't melt. • You'll live. • You brought this on yourself. • I suppose you think you are special, Lady Jane. • Get up, you’re not hurt • Rub some dirt on it

  4. What is Trauma Informed Practice?

  5. What’s Wrong With You?

  6. What is Trauma • Event: An event, series of events, or set of circumstances • Experienced: By an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and • Effect: That have lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual well-being

  7. Why does it matter to me as the attorney?

  8. Impact of Trauma on Case Outcomes

  9. What Can We Do? Understand trauma and the impacts of it Do not cause more trauma Prepare initially and throughout case

  10. Plan Early • Physical Space • Body Language • Explain in Advance • Offer Breaks • Self Soothing • Note Taking • Court Tours • Other Support • Emotional Needs • Safety Planning

  11. Challenges to Representation • Avoid Harsh Interactions • Difficulty Listening (Both sides) • What Happened to You • Reacting to their Aggression

  12. Watch your interactions for: Avoid Model Kindness Respect Patience Reassurance Acceptance • Humiliating • Harsh • Impersonal • Disrespectful • Critical • Demanding • Judgmental

  13. Difficulty Listening and Following Story Use Active Listening

  14. TELL ME YOUR STORYWHAT HAPPENED?

  15. Monitor your reaction to their aggression or hostility

  16. KNOW YOUR PERSONAL BIASES • Personal Baggage • Race • Ethnicity • Religion • Economics • Children

  17. ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES • Abuse-physical, emotional, social • Neglect-physical or emotional • Mental illness • Violence • Incarceration • Substance abuse • Divorce

  18. Frequency of Child Trauma • 2/3 of children reported at least 1 traumatic event by age 16 • There are 9.1 victims of child abuse and neglect per 1,000 children • Children receiving hospital treatment for assault injuries fills 9 stadiums annually • 1 in 4 high school students have been in a physical fight • 1 in 6 high school students have experienced cyberbullying

  19. Impact of ACEs

  20. Establish a good client relationship

  21. Determine What Has Occurred

  22. Determine What Is Needed

  23. Develop a professional network

  24. Impact on You and Your Staff Burnout Frustration and Anger Vicarious Trauma

  25. What Can You Do? • Regular staff meetings • Take suggestions • Use new ideas • Show gratitude • Therapy • Professional associations • Resiliency groups • Turn off the phone

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