Working with a Male rape victim in the custodial setting

Please describe a relationship, service intervention, program implementation, policy, or other that you initiated or know about that would be considered trauma-informed:

Invited to help a victim who was gang raped whilst in Prison.

 

What was the outcome?  

Opportunity to reflect on the ethics of working with Trauma in a victimising system. Raises key themes around physical and psychological safety. The setting provides both challenges to the traumatised and to the therapist.

 

What supported the positive outcome? (systemic supports? Organizational supports? Interpersonal supports?):

The prisons system provides complex challenges to support networks as well growing an insight into the re victimising process on the custodial setting.

 

In what way has your example changed you, your practice or your goals:

The important of working ethically and to develop the capacity to grow hope.

 

Tell us more about what motivated you to bring this example to discuss:

Primarily to give voice to trauma victims in the custodial setting.

 

Whose needs are met in the example that you outline:

Victims needs and organisational deficits and challenges.

 

Was there any one person or factor that was central to the success of your example and why:

Not really. But flags up the challenges to work with trauma in a complex multi layered system with different agendas.

 

 

What can you or others do to spread this good practice to colleagues and services:

Conferences, publications. workshops to pool best practice. Raise awareness of the challenges of working with trauma in the custodial setting.