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Presenter Constance M. Romer-Quirin M.S. Psychologist - Owner, Lives In Motion LLC P.O. Box 47, Villanova, Pa. 19085 Intensive Systems Therapy (IST): Trauma Informed Text Trauma Trauma can be thought of as a real or perceived threat to one’s survival. A trauma reaction can be thought of as a person’s response to the memory of a trauma.
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Presenter Constance M. Romer-Quirin M.S. Psychologist - Owner, Lives In Motion LLC

P.O. Box 47, Villanova, Pa. 19085

Intensive Systems Therapy (IST): Trauma Informed

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Trauma

• Trauma can be thought of as a real or perceived threat to one’s survival.

• A trauma reaction can be thought of as a person’s response to the memory of a trauma.

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Trauma Reaction

• The memory of the trauma is activated by something in a current experience.

• The person interprets and reacts to the current experience as if it is threatening survival in the moment.

• The strength of the interpretation and reaction depends on the saliency of the event.

Saliency

• The level to which something in the environment can catch and retain one’s attention.

• Affects what is remembered. • Affects what is perceived to be true. • Affects response to events in the

current environment.

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Trauma Memory

• 9/11, Single, highly salient event. • Stored in detail. • Threat to various survival needs. • Distorted memory, perception, fact in a

percentage of the US population.

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Intensive SystemsTherapy

• Cognitive Behavior Therapy model. • Focused on thinking determining

actions. • Identifies thinking associated with

trauma reactions. • Helps shift thinking from memory to

the present environment.

IST Helps Thinking

• Trauma thoughts predisposes people to pay attention (increase saliency) to parts of the environment associated with memory rather than the present. Their reactions are usually a poor fit with the environment.

• IST helps people think/ perceive in the present moment. The response is a better fit with the environment.

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IST Strategy for Trauma

• Provide an alternate thought/ perception/ narrative for the current environment that is true and salient.

• Engage the primary social group in a regular and reliable conversation about the alternate thought/perception/narrative.

• Point out survival resources or absence of survival threats.

Focus on the Social World

• Not belonging is one of the great survival threats.

• Exclusion / loss of primary social group. • Powerlessness / lack of skill for joining

or maintaining membership in the group.

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Resources necessary for Survival

IST creates social connection

• Draws attention to social resources in the present.

• Shows the individual how to belong (aka social grooming) to a group.

• Empowers the individual to initiate social engagement that fits the setting.

• Sustains a consistent alternate experience in a positive narrative.

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IST promotes structuring adaptive, deliberate thinking about self and one’s relation to the people in the environment to promote a good fit between the individual and the social

environment, whatever it might be.

Salient Belonging

IST Tools

• Weekly IST Group Sessions generally one hour a week

• Daily Activity Scheduling generally five minutes a day

• Daily Co-management generally five minutes a day

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Group Protocol

A Completed IST Group Session

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Check In• Mood identification • Active listening • Turn taking

(seriation) • Reciprocal social

interaction • Positive regard

(affective learning)

Issues

• Labeling • Neutral language

(emotional regulation)

• Turn taking • Shared power

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Prioritization

• Logical analysis • Advice seeking • Positive

reappraisal • Turn taking

Problem Solving• Fact checking • “I” Statements • Logical analysis (Guided

Discovery) • Advice seeking • Positive reappraisal • Mutual reciprocal social

interactions • Positive regard • A sense of belonging and

relatedness to mankind (reducing the perception of danger in social interactions).

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Perception of Danger and Avoidance Coping“you don’t care about me”....I’m out of here

IST relationship and logic skills

• “I” Statement - used to give people information that they may not want to hear in a manner that does not trigger volatility

• Fact Checking - description of facts related to issues rather than judgmental statements

• Guided Discovery - logical choice making towards conclusions

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“I” Statement

• Therapeutic language • Used to communicate information that

could be perceived as a threat to survival.

• Two parts: FACT/FEELING and WHAT WOULD MAKE THINGS BETTER.

• Increases the saliency of the available resources in the moment.

Example

• “Mom called” • “She said that she is not coming to pick

you up for the weekend.” • “I am sad about that.” • “It would make me feel better to go out

for an ice cream sundae. Can we go out to Friendly’s and then come back and unpack?”

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Example

• “Heddy (favorite staff) is taking time off”.

• “She is moving.” • “She needs time to pack her things.” • “She will be back by Halloween.” • “We all will miss her.” • “It would feel good to plan a party for

when she comes back.”

Summary

• Trauma reactions are the consequence of trauma memories distorting perception of the present.

• Trauma memories can distort the perception of the social world.

• A concrete, valid narrative about the present offers an alternate perception that is a better fit for the environment.

• A better fit validates belonging.

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Thank you for listeningConstance M. Romer-Quirin M.S.

P.O. Box 47, Villanova, Pa. 19085 tel. 215-489-8640 fax 215-489-8642