Thought process centralized in being objectively attuned, respectful, and loving
Based on every immediate environment's needs and the vacume of tranquility in each culture and belief system, reasoning and dept of truma could be vareid. Therefore, you could evaluate the strong points and weakpoints of the patients regarding the variable of time (past, present & future pressures) first; in each age-group, their flexibility of acceptance to learn about themselves and others would be an essential help for a progressive outcome. In addition, their former social status, and historical background could be the other effective variables to push them over the edge, differently.
Thank you, Faranack Nader Benz! I appreciate your response. I do have a question regarding: 'Vacume of tranquility'? I have not heard this expression before. What does this mean? Moreover, how does this fit in the capacity of spirituality?
My question to you is, what is the point of the communication? These are people. Talk to them like they are people.
Keep in mind that PTSD tells you there was previous trauma, and a spiritual approach might be tricky. Depending on the trauma, any former beliefs may be gone, and a resident anger replacing it. Or flat out disbelief, or antipathy.
Trauma is an equalizer: it shows no bias. Rich, poor, female, male. It respects no labels or divisions we humans acknowledge, and is often inflicted one human to another.
Effective recovery from PTSD can enable a new spiritual dimension which may be entirely different than the former.
My clients are sometimes very traumatized, from childhood, sometimes infancy. They don't like having PTSD, and being able to affirm them is critical. For me, that's easy. I have PTSD. Spirituality has never been considered in my assessments, or treatment. It usually doesn't come up as a subject until they are into the phase of post traumatic growth.
The hallmarks of posttraumatic growth (PTG) are:
i) sense of a stronger self,
ii) renewed relationships with important others, and
iii) existential or spiritual awakening.
If the shock is big enough to undo the assumptions of the pre-trauma life, a commitment to live in the post-trauma life will see these hallmarks emerge. With PTG spirituality emerges even if it was absent before. I know of one approach for resolving PTSD that is spiritually and culturally-neutral. Go to: http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/ViewIntervention.aspx?id=245
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