Rachel Archambault, MA CCC-SLP is an SLP Program Specialist for Broward County Public Schools. After a traumatic event happened at her workplace on 2/14/18, she looked for ways to help work with students (and herself) after trauma. She found trauma-informed care and has been presenting nationally to SLPs and other providers on how TIC can be used in their setting. She runs the
PTSDSLP.com web site and Instagram account, @
PTSD.SLP which discusses TIC from a speech lens.
- Pillars of trauma-informed care
- 3–12 pillars of Trauma, but here are the six.
- Safety
- Trustworthiness & Transparency
- Peer Support
- Collaboration & Mutuality
- Empowerment Voice & Choice
- Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues
- Aftermath of Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- Transparency - There’s no rulebook for this. We have a rulebook and it is what other people have experienced.
- Camera crews were around 24/7.
- 3600 students at the school.
- Anything was under a microscope.
- Kept things quiet, but it made them
- Celebrity visiting, but made it scary
- Some people were offered transparency
- Control in a situation
- Three E’s Definition of Trauma [[What Happened to You]]: three E’s” definition of trauma: “that a trauma has three key aspects—the event, the experience, and the effects. The complexities of these three interrelated components are what should be considered in clinical work and studied in research”
- Loaded school with school resource officers.
- What would make a big group of people able to cope better.
- Connection - Forming a connection with someone who has experienced trauma is a way to help them overcome it.
- Fishing in the Olds and Russian Rivers
- How do we form connections with students?
- Therapeutic speaking - active listening
- Let them determine the connection and relationship
- It’s not personl
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Episode 19
