Trauma represents a loss of connection with the self and can affect
ability the to engage in comfortable long-term intimacy. Unresolved
trauma often times is the reason why people self-medicate. It is a
shutting down of affect, dissociation from the heat of a painful or
terrifying moment, a repression of unbearable feelings. Relational
trauma happens a little bit at a time. Feeling unseen,
misunderstood, neglected or rejected by the people we want most to
be loved by is, over time, a traumatizing experience. Our need to
be seen is core to valuing ourselves, to experiencing us as vital
people, important to those close to us and with the potential to
find a meaningful place in the world. Sociometrics offers layers of
healing, many small incremental moments of healing that
cumulatively help to peel back the layers of the onion revealing
ever deepening and widening aspects of both the self and the self
in relation to others. Sociometrics is a therapeutic role-playing
practice built upon the foundation of Psychodrama and Sociometry,
the pioneering group therapy concepts developed by fin-de-siecle
Viennese psychiatrist Jacob Levy Moreno. Psychodrama and Sociometry
have been organically embraced in the addictions field as a method
of treating this kind of relational trauma. Role-play in a
therapeutic environment allows a full range of mind-body emotions
and physical motions to be part of the treatment process. Words,
rather than being used in some hapless attempt to describe an
experience one can barely remember, can come bursting forward into
the here and now towards the right person at the right place at the
right time. But the open-ended nature of each can make it difficult
to do with safety and containment. Sociometrics solve that problem
by creating an experiential process that is both healing and
educational. This practice also incorporate the most up-to-date
research on trauma, grief and related issues such as depression,
anxiety, somatic issues and PTSD. Sociometrics is designed to fit
easily into the existing programming of an addiction treatment
canter or group therapy. Because they bring trauma issues forward
through the stricture of the Floor Check (a series of guided
emotional prompts), they remove the necessity for a lecture only
approach to healing. Each time a "symptom" is explored for example,
there is time for sharing how that symptom might manifest for each
client and to hear how that symptom might manifest for others. This
creates many "teachable and healable" moments across the room as
symptoms come alive through each individual. As clients share they
normalize problems and regulate their string emotions through
sharing and feeling "held" by others engaged in a similar process.
Resilience is natural built as they stand in the center of their
own story. Emotional literacy and relational skills are
strengthened and feelings are translated into words and
communicated to others.
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