by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Jan 15, 2023 | Blog
Using The Salutogenic Approach Neurodiversity is complicated and often misunderstood. Oftentimes, people with neurodiversities are wrongly labeled or stigmatized—sometimes even by those who are close to them. There’s a better way to interact with these...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Dec 31, 2022 | Blog
How The Drive For Organizational Efficiency Destroys Trauma-Informed Care I sat in a meeting of leaders from a variety of nonprofits that provide services to the mental health community. The meeting progressed, and as it did so a stunning feeling of...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Nov 16, 2022 | Blog
Home is the foundation of a healthy life, including mental health… …and no other instrumentality (therapy or social services) can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions. Many professionals in the mental health field provide services for youth...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Nov 11, 2022 | Blog
AND CHALLENGES CHANGE US It is true we grow from meeting the challenge and many live for the adventure that accompanies change, but there are those who are quickly overwhelmed when their expectations are met with surprise. Even those who like to be astonished...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Oct 14, 2022 | Blog
A New Approach to Helping Others In the early 1970s, cognitive psychologist George Kelly developed the idea of expectancy, which posits that WE TEND TO GET MORE OF WHAT WE FOCUS ON. This theory has important implications for those of us in the helping...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Oct 7, 2022 | Blog
From Adversity to Asset-Based Thinking THE FIELD OF COUNSELING IS SHIFTING. For too long, the focus has been on what is wrong with the client. This deficit-based thinking has served to pathologize clients and label them as damaged goods. However, a new movement...
by krista.bennett@aztrauma.org | Sep 7, 2022 | Blog
When working with clients who have experienced trauma, it is important to keep in mind that the goal should be increasing capacity and transformation, not simply recovery. The medical model of recovery assumes that people can go back to the way things were before, but...
