Psychology

Psychology

1. Collateral Damage, Trauma Treatment, and Caregivers' Self-Care
Collateral damage can occur from the stress of caring for traumatized persons. Any
medical practitioner needs to understand the importance of trauma-informed care, which
adequately elevates organizations to building processes and systems which focus on patients and
staff care through the redefinition of the systems and methods of an organization. The principles
to be upheld are trustworthiness and transparency, safety, collaboration and mutuality, voice and
choice, peer support, cultural issues, and empowerment (Ruglass & Kendall-Tackett 2014). The
places of work bring together many people, hence the high possibility of dealing with someone
who may have faced or could be facing trauma. Medical professionals risk falling into traumatic
stress from knowledge of traumatizing events, resulting from wanting to offer to a suffering or
traumatized person. Trauma-informed care provides the medical experts and nurses a sense of
empathy in realizing how trauma has affected the lives of their patients and their well-being.
Trauma-informed care is helpful to the professionals because they can note their trauma and
respond to it; hence will open the insight to working with their patients who deal with trauma. In
addition to other advantages, the continuous implementation of trauma-informed care will help
avoid collateral damage, which has a risk of causing trauma to professionals.
2. Use of Telemedicine In addressing Mental Caregivers Compassion Fatigue
Compassion fatigue comprises of two aspects, namely burnout and secondary traumatic
stress. Burnout refers to cynicism and emotional exhaustion syndrome, which affects people's
work of some type (Purkey, Patel, & Phillips, 2018). An increased sense of emotional exhaustion
characterizes it. Secondary traumatic stress is usually the natural result of emotions and
behaviors from knowledge of a traumatizing event derived from helping a traumatized or

suffering person. A self-care technique to solving compaction fatigue is by having resilience,
creating positive relations with other crisis counselors, self-rest, meditation, and relaxation,
staying in continuous contact with loved ones and friends, and informing self about events and
crisis counselors. Telemedicine is prevalent in the COVID-19 pandemic because it helps combat
the disease by enforcing the recommended measures. In minimizing contact, medical
practitioners, especially mental healthcare professionals, lack physical connection with loved
ones, friends, and other helpful individuals who are valuable for their therapeutic healing. The
use of telemedicine is therefore detrimental to addressing burnout and secondary traumatic stress
for its lack of a face-to-face meeting with crisis counselors, which impedes the symptoms of
secondary traumatic stress such as avoidance and numbing, having images of a patient's
traumatic material, increased arousal, and somatic complaints.
3. Benefits and Challenges of Cultural Competence
Cultural humanity is a practice of self-replication and self-finding to build trustworthy
and honest relationships (Yeager & Bauer-Wu, 2013). It aids researchers in eradicating health
inequalities, which is a present escalating problem. The workplaces are becoming increasingly
multicultural and diverse hence the need for health professionals to be aware of cultural
differences and their effect on health. Artistic research helps to increase cultural competence and
thus improve practice. Cultural humility in nursing allows the professionals to advance in a
holistic approach and perspective in clinical practice.
Cultural competence may at times contribute to stereotyping. For instance, by the way,
researchers describe people using terms like immoral, criminal, abusive, uneducated to refer to a
poor person. Health providers mostly tend to emulate the stereotypic nature. Eventually, they
view patients with socioeconomic challenges with a negative perspective. They have the

perception that such kinds of people may be less adherent, not accept an active lifestyle, or have
lower intelligence.

References

Ruglass, L., & Kendall-Tackett, K. (2014). Psychology of trauma 101. Springer Publishing
Company. ISBN: 9780826196682
Yeager, K. A., & Bauer-Wu, S. (2013). Cultural humility: Essential foundation for clinical
researchers. Applied Nursing Research, 26(4), 251-256.
Purkey, E., Patel, R., & Phillips, S. P. (2018). Trauma-informed care: better care for everyone.
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