community based trauma healing and reentry john a. shuford mba, eds, fachca nasw delaware chapter...
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Community Based Trauma Healing
and Reentry
John A. Shuford MBA, EdS, FACHCANASW Delaware Chapter
Executive Director
People of Color Conference; Southern DelawareMarch 23, 2012
James Gilligan, MD, “Preventing Violence”
1. Shame is a necessary but insufficient condition
Three Conditions for Violent Criminal Behavior:
1. Shame is a necessary but insufficient condition
Three Conditions for Violent Criminal Behavior:
2. A lack of empathy
1. Shame is a necessary but insufficient condition
Three Conditions for Violent Criminal Behavior:
2. A lack of empathy
3. Lack of awareness of alternative behaviors
1. Shame
Three Conditions of Unhealed Trauma Especially complex trauma:
2. A lack of empathy; withdraw from self & others
3. Lack of awareness of alternative behaviors; often rigid and protective – survival
The Impact of Trauma
The ACES Study
Kaiser Permanente Study funded by the Center for Disease Control
What do you think is the #1 predictor of criminal behavior?
Tonier Cane
The Prevalence of Unhealed Trauma
What can we do about it?
1. We can treat the cause and not the symptoms
What can we do about it?
1. We can treat the cause and not the symptoms
What can we do about it?
2. We can stop re-traumatizing and shaming inmates
1. We can treat the cause and not the symptoms
What can we do about it?
2. We can stop re-traumatizing and shaming inmates by training staff in Trauma Informed Care
3. We can provide Cognitive Emotional Restructuring for inmates
Respect and Caring
Cognitive Emotional Restructuring
Respect and Caring
creates
Safety
Cognitive Emotional Restructuring
Respect and Caring
creates
Safetybuilds
Trust
Cognitive Emotional Restructuring
Respect and Caring
creates
Safetybuilds
Trustencourages
Openness
Cognitive Emotional Restructuring
Respect and Caring
creates
Safetybuilds
Trustencourages
Opennessleads to
Awareness
Cognitive Emotional Restructuring
Respect and Caring
creates
Safetybuilds
Trustencourages
Opennessleads to
Awarenesswhich is
Transformational
Cognitive Emotional Restructuring
Stats
Recidivism Reduced 46%
Inmate Write-ups Reduced 60%
Violent Attitudes Reduced to Same Level as Community
Comparison Group
Trait Anger Reduced a Large Amount
These results were long lasting.
Cognitive Emotional Restructuring
Participant Comments:Attitude: “With AVP I began to grow from a person filled with hate, anger, and despair, into a person who believes he too is responsible for the protection, preservation
and enrichment of humanity."
Safety: “That we are all the same beneath all that life has given us to experience. That no matter what persona or mask we wear, we can be reached, loved, and healed. Only a group of this nature can provide us with the safe environment to remove this mask.”
Empathy: “I went into the workshop as a pessimist and I came out a changed person. I was alive, I was actually alive. I liked what I saw in myself. It was a real high and I’ve been doing it for two years and I love that feeling; and to see other people awakened in the workshops, to see their lives change.”
Alternatives: "I had been in every group in the institution and they were all generic. They gave the same information. There were very few solutions offered. When you are given the information without the solution, you are still lost. AVP gave me some concrete solutions."
Cognitive Emotional Restructuring