SOCW 6060: Social Work Theory and Practice Week 10 Discussion
Existential Questions and Post-Traumatic Growth
In 1 sentence, identify an existential question with which you have grappled
in relation to a client who has been traumatized.
o Reflect on your fieldwork or perhaps identify an existential question
that might arise in working with the client in the case study you have
selected throughout the course.
In 3 to 4 brief sentences, describe where there is potential for growth for the client as a result of the trauma.
In 3 to 4 brief sentences, explain where there is potential for growth for you, the social worker, as a result of listening to the client’s stories and bearing witness to their trauma.
Describe any challenges you may experience between the meaning you hold
based on your personal beliefs and working within the client’s potentially
different belief framework.
Provide a suggestion for how a social worker could help clients to understand
and make meaning of the trauma within the client’s values and belief
framework.
I am currently working with a client who was violently raped over the summer and left with physical damage and a permanent STI. She has suffered with CPTSD since the incident (Turner, 2017). The youth has been making poor decisions since the incident stemming from trauma responses which has landed her in significant legal troubles. The youth is struggling with Passive Suicidal Ideations and thinks she would have been better of killed during her
Existential Questions and Post-Traumatic Growth
In 1 sentence, identify an existential question with which you have grappled
in relation to a client who has been traumatized.
o Reflect on your fieldwork or perhaps identify an existential question
that might arise in working with the client in the case study you have
selected throughout the course.
In 3 to 4 brief sentences, describe where there is potential for growth for the client as a result of the trauma.
In 3 to 4 brief sentences, explain where there is potential for growth for you, the social worker, as a result of listening to the client’s stories and bearing witness to their trauma.
Describe any challenges you may experience between the meaning you hold
based on your personal beliefs and working within the client’s potentially
different belief framework.
Provide a suggestion for how a social worker could help clients to understand
and make meaning of the trauma within the client’s values and belief
framework.
I am currently working with a client who was violently raped over the summer and left with physical damage and a permanent STI. She has suffered with CPTSD since the incident (Turner, 2017). The youth has been making poor decisions since the incident stemming from trauma responses which has landed her in significant legal troubles. The youth is struggling with Passive Suicidal Ideations and thinks she would have been better of killed during her
