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Traumatology

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Trauma

Trauma has occurred when:
1) An event has severely impaired the way you usually cope,
2) There is an element of ‘fatalness’, or
3) There is an irrevocable conclusion.

Divorce, hijacking, armed robbery, motor accident, abuse, addictions, violence, life stress retrenchment . . .

Trauma causes your natural coping mechanisms to fail. Instead of saying that there is something wrong with you, we take the view that something has happened and that we need to help you to better cope with what you have gone through. Symptoms are eliminated or reduced markedly to the point that they are no longer overwhelming or invasive.

Traumatology

Traumatology is a health and social science which is concerned with all the aspects of emotional trauma and crisis on the individual and society.It is thus a far reaching, complex, but also 'young' science. Despite this, it has an already existing solid foundation of knowledge to underpin it. It is, however, still evolving and there is comprehensive scope for further research and development.

Traumatology brings together the inputs and draws on a host of related sciences, such as: psychology, sociology, psychognosis, theology, nutrition and others. Notwithstanding the broad base on which it stands, it is specific to its content and purpose. The study of traumatology at its various levels, prepares and enables the practitioner (again at various levels of practice) to provide supportive and curative interventions to sufferers of trauma.

It is a 'new' and emerging profession which offers unlimited scope for development and growth as well as exciting and rewarding career and employment opportunities.