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Original Articles

Risking Connection

Helping Agencies Embrace Relational Work with Trauma Survivors

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Pages 65-82 | Received 01 Jun 2004, Accepted 01 Jul 2005, Published online: 15 Oct 2008
 

Abstract

Risking Connection, a mental health training curriculum, empowers clinicians, counselors and other direct-service providers to respond to the complex needs of trauma survivors within the framework of growth-promoting relationships. The program enhances success by teaching providers to notice and use their own reactions to working with traumatized individuals and to attend to their own self-care, with a focus on empowerment, collaboration, hope, and optimism. Building on construc-tivist self-development theory (CSDT), Risking Connection teaches the philosophy of relational therapy in the context of accessible, experiential learning, enabling its ready transfer into practice. This paper will discuss how, by modeling the model, collaborative relationships have nurtured the development, application, and follow-up of Risking Connection.

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