NINE A’S : The Legacy of Trauma

1. Attachment

2. Affect

3. Anger

4. Authority

5. Awareness

6. Addiction

7. Automatic repetition

8. Avoidance

9. Alienation

Disrupted attachment

• Inability to trust

• Inability to connect

• Unmodulated affect

• Unstable moods

• Emotional numbness

• Self-medication for distress

• Empathic failures

Unmanageable anger

• Hostility and violence directed at self and others

• Chronic hyperarousal

• Multiple addictions

• Substances

• Behaviors

Diminished awareness

• Dissociative states, disconnection

• Flashbacks, nightmares, behavioral reenactments

• Secrecy from others and oneself

Avoidance

• People

• Places

• Things

• Thoughts

• Feelings

 Abusive authority

• Bullying, domination

• Submission, obedience

• Automatic repetition

• Traumatic reenactment

• Stagnation

Alienation from self and others

• Sense of foreshortened future

• Rejection of established social order

• Cynicism, pessimism, meaninglessness

• Suicidality, homicidality, preoccupation with death

• Failure to invest in children, family, community

 Exposure to trauma affects:

• The Body

• The Mind

  • Emotional management

  • Memory

  • Sense of self

  • Trust in others

  • Sense of Community

• The Soul

  • Sense of life purpose, of life meaning, of wholeness

  • Relationship to God

• The Next Generations

   

	Mental Models
	Facts About PTSD, 2000
	Sanctuary Model of Organizational Change
	Components of the Sanctuary Model
	Description of the Sanctuary Model
	Social Legacy of Trauma
	Trauma Theory
	Seven Commitments

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