Issues that Impact on the Clinical Process |
Mental Health | Transference/Counter-transference |
Both | Secondary victimization |
Mental Health | Integration of TRAUMA into treatment |
Health Care | Effect of managed care on mental health service to victims |
Mental Health | Involving significant others: WHEN and HOW to involve significant others |
Mental Health | Showing affect; being involved (see Thinking Outside the Office) |
Both | Ritual Abuse |
Both & court cases | Memory |
Mental Health | Safety as critical |
Mental Health | Medication and Trauma |
Both | Gender issues |
Mental Health | Understanding the person in her/his context instead of simply considering symptoms |
Mental Health | Commitment to client/Consistency |
Both | Drug and Alcohol (discounting victim user; victim using to cope) |
Both | Vulnerable Populations: distinguish between vulnerability and blame (i.e., lesbians, gays, elderly, disabled institutionalized persons) |
Both | Discounting victims with previous Mental Health history |
Mental Health | Expert witness work |
Both | Difference in support and therapy groups |
Both | Mental health and Victim Services as consultants and collaborators |
Both | Establishing and maintaining joint efforts (networking, task forces, etc.). Put it in someone's job description |
Both | Caring for yourself and each other (self advocacy) |
Both | Competition for increasingly limited resources |
Both | Gaps in service |
Victim Services | Defensiveness of Victim Services Providers |
Victim Services | Credentials |
Victim Services | Struggle between grass roots and professional |
Victim Services | Self image |
Victim Services | Knowing limits |
Victim Services | Assessing Mental Health and Advocacy |
List created by the Advisory Panel, May 95