Introduction
The concept of ‘trauma’ in the recent world has been widely used in the sector of mental health and wellbeing of the people. The people of Australia have been generally facing this issue. The position of mental health and the delivery of the human service system has been poor in terms of state in Australia. There have been coexisting difficulties faced by the medical care units in analysing the concepts of trauma and its associated relation with the mental health status of the people living in Australia. The main causes can be attributed to the lack of adequate knowledge and the focus on the health related policies that will be reflected by the gap in the level of awareness around the specific trauma related approaches with the practices in promoting the mental wellbeing of people (Hull,et.al 2017).
The response to the trauma among the people and its severe after effects requires adequate knowhow and the analysis of the cause of trauma, along with the proper education of workforce and their capacity. Trauma and its relation with mental wellbeing can be linked to the utilization of the support service providers in the health care units with the clear evaluation of the impacts of trauma on any individual’s life. It will result in the several transformational outcomes taking place in particular organizations, amidst the different programs and the related services that are all based on the understanding of the vulnerabilities that the individuals face after getting triggered by the traumatic incidents in their life (Khanlari,et.al 2017).
Discussion
In this presentation I would like to invariably argue with the fact that the concept of TICP (Trauma Informed Care and Practice) can be utilized in the support system providers in shifting from a caretaker to the role of the collaborator in providing service for mental wellbeing of the people in Australia. The utilization and application of TICP is very important owing to the poor service systems of mental health in Australian context. It must be said that in this scenario, the different transformational outcomes will start in the organizations along with the different programs and related services that are based on the critical understanding of the severe effects of trauma on the mental wellbeing of the individuals. In my perspective, I strongly feel that we cannot call any individual as ‘completely safe’ unless and until he is safe both from physical and emotional abuse from the surroundings (Smullen, 2016).
Evolution
Now, let’s talk in brief regarding the evolution of the concept of link between trauma and mental health status. It was in the year 2007, that the Australian Standing Committee on the Affairs of the Community had conducted a brief inquiry in the mental health status of the people living in Australia. The forum discussions presented in this context established the crucial need for developing the service related culture of the delivery mechanisms that embraced the TICP approach. This basically referred to the fact that TICP has formed the most integral part of the principles related to the trauma informed care units and their integration with the service delivery systems working throughout the region of Australia (Hall, 2017).
Approaches in dealing with Trauma in mental recovery of the individuals
In my presentation I would like to highlight that the trauma informed care unit includes the factors of safety, freedom of choice and the collaborative strategies for enhancing the process of empowerment. The framework of the TICP will recognize the impact of the differentials of the power in the different settings of the service delivered to the people maximisation of the self-determination approach if the individuals that will provide the support system for motivating the individuals for taking the adequate responsibility for their own recovery rate. This principal also involves the informed services of the non-traumatic effects that are often experienced in the abusive relationships caused after effects of the several past effects of traumatic events in lives of the individuals. This often results in the most traumatic events in the acute settings of the lives of the individuals. The approach of the TICP refers to the shift in the particular paradigm in the context of the service delivery culture that ultimately forms the most integral part of the recovery practice of the individuals affected by trauma (Fennell,et.al 2016).
The second approach of the application of trauma in the metal wellbeing of the individuals refers to the appropriate approach of treatment of the people suffering from the mental health problems. It acknowledges the articulation of the analysis of the individuals of the challenges that are present in the process of the recovery of the people from the trauma that has affected them for a long period of time.
I would like to summarise the key principles and the attributes in dealing with trauma among the suffering individuals:
- To integrate the specific philosophical approaches in the field of the quality health care along with the proper guidance in the assessment in their several critical interventions approach.
- The principles are all based the current evidence of the literature.
- The application of the philosophical based approach is mainly led by the consumers and the survivors of the trauma or the after effects of such traumatic events in the past.
- To analyse whether the philosophical approach is safe in respect of the culture of the individuals along with their inclusive nature.
- To understand the nature of trauma and its associated impact for recognizing the severe challenges faced by the individuals in relation of their adaptive responses to their past traumatic experiences.
- The principle also includes the promotion of the safety standards by establishing the safe physical and the emotional environment that the individual is surrounded by and that affects the basic needs structure of these individuals.
- To ensure the level of cultural competence in understanding and analysing the different perceptions and the response mechanism to the traumatic events to aid in the process of recovery in maintain the level of diversity for providing the different opportunities to the different consumers to help them regain their sense of control and thereby build the level of competencies for strengthening the sense of autonomy in the process.
- The foundation principle in the TCIP approach includes the sharing system of power and the governance system for understanding the effects of trauma in the lives of the different individuals.
- It must be considered that positive and the healing relationships can aid in the recovery of the mental trauma with the restoration process along with the pathways in the neutral system (Atkinso,et,al 2019).
Evidences
I would like to bring it to your notice that in the year 2007, the Australian University has initiated the study of more than 20,000 old Australians and the results stated that over 13% of the surveyed people have been sexually or physically abused in their childhood phase. However the figures do not highlight the number of people who have been the subject of mental or the emotional abuse or have been the victims of domestic violence.
According to the recent figures and statistics, it states that the breakdown of the substantiated abuse in childhood in Australia highlight over 23% of the abuse are physical abuse, 29 % people have reported mental or the emotional abuse effects. These statistics suggest that in Australia one out of three patients are suffering from the emotional and the mental concerns have an underlying cause of trauma either primary or secondary childhood phase. The level of emotional abuse along with the chronic neglect of the impacts of violence. Extensive studies have revealed that almost 90% of the public health crisis are due to the multiple abuse effects of sexual abuse and the trauma related to this abuse (Sands,et.al 2016).
Trauma as the most important Predictor of Mental Health status in Individuals
Research in this field has highlighted that the most important predictor of mental health in individuals that reflects the history of the causes of the trauma in the individuals owing to its effects. In most of the individuals trauma has been the most severe psychological health concerns. Trauma can be referred to as the most universal form of experience that determines the status of the public mental health along with the level of abuse of the consumers that address the most essential aspect of recovery rate among the people suffering from trauma (Bovopoulos,et.al 2016).
Cultural and Gender Based Dimensions of effect of trauma on the individuals
Majority of people who are victims of the mental and the emotional abuse are mainly women. So we can refer this to as the gender based abuses among the people of Australia. This also leads to growing recognition level of the different complex needs of women in respect to their coexistent form of mental disorders. These affected women have not received the required service from the communities where they reside. The several trauma informed services have also revealed the different aspects of the non-judgemental level of acceptance that are also pervasive among the lives of the men. In this context a significant account must be considered regarding the impact of the male socialization levels and their recovery from trauma.
The cultural dimensions include the proper level of understanding of the Trans generational sort of transmission levels that forms the integral part of the aboriginal and the native people residing in Australia. It includes the trauma informed care and the other practice services that will be rendered along with the high risks of re traumatization efforts of the native people of the Aboriginal origin and the people of the Torres Strait with acute symptoms of mental health disorders.
The community services have also faced several difficulties in the engaging the bilingual workers in providing the culturally appropriate services for the critical understanding of the childhood abuse systems and the effects of the sexual abuse with a specific cultural context. The several trauma informed services must also involve the integration measures of the cultural knowledge aspects to minimize the level of trauma faced by the individuals (Kitchener & Jorm, 2017).
Conclusion
Finally, I would like to conclude by stating that most of the survivors of the childhood abuse have exhibited the difficulties or the gap in the recovery of their mental health disorders and have reflected a high tendency towards chronic depression and mental and emotional trauma. Several Australians have adopted the extreme levels of strategies in combatting the difficulties. Unfortunately with the lack of proper service, the coping strategies have often increased the risk factors among the individuals in Australia.
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