Family Systems & Caregiver Support in Disability Trauma Flashcards
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How should a CDT practitioner support a caregiver who is experiencing secondary traumatic stress from witnessing their family member's trauma responses?
Answer: Validate the caregiver's experience, provide psychoeducation about STS, and connect them with their own support services
Caregivers exposed to their family member's trauma symptoms need acknowledgment, education, and their own supports to maintain their caregiving capacity without developing chronic STS.
What is the role of psychoeducation when working with families of individuals with disability-related trauma?
Answer: Teaching families about trauma responses, disability, and how to provide supportive, non-traumatizing care at home
Psychoeducation empowers family members to understand trauma and disability in ways that improve their responses and reduce behaviors that may unintentionally retraumatize.
Which family-centered approach recognizes strengths and resilience in families supporting individuals with disabilities?
Answer: Strengths-based family practice
Strengths-based family practice identifies and builds on existing family capacities, fostering resilience rather than reinforcing deficit narratives.
What is 'respite care' and why is it a critical support in CDT-informed family systems work?
Answer: Temporary relief care that allows family caregivers to rest, restore, and prevent caregiver burnout
Respite care reduces caregiver burden, prevents burnout and abuse risk, and supports sustained quality caregiving for individuals with disabilities.
How might sibling relationships be affected when one child in a family has a disability and trauma history?
Answer: Siblings may experience jealousy, parentification, neglect of their own needs, or their own trauma symptoms from witnessing their sibling's distress
Siblings in families with disability often carry unacknowledged burdens, and CDT practitioners should assess and address sibling needs within a family systems framework.
What does 'family resilience' mean in the context of disability and trauma, as described by Froma Walsh?
Answer: The capacity of a family system to withstand and rebound from adversity through shared beliefs, organizational flexibility, and communication
Walsh's family resilience framework highlights three key domains — belief systems, organizational patterns, and communication processes — that enable families to navigate disability and trauma together.