Book chapter
Trauma-organised systems and parallel process
Managing Trauma in the Workplace, pp 159-173
2011
Abstract
This chapter takes a seemingly obvious but fundamentally radical
position that organisations – including human service organisation –
are, like individuals, living systems (Senge et al., 2004). Being alive,
they are vulnerable to stress, particularly chronic and repetitive
stress. Chronic stress stealthily robs an organisation of basic interpersonal safety and trust and thereby robs an organisation of health.
Organisations, like individuals, can be traumatized, and the result of
traumatic experience can be as devastating for organisations as it is
for individuals. As a result, many human service delivery networks
are functioning as ‘trauma-organised systems’ (Bentovim, 1992).
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- Title
- Trauma-organised systems and parallel process
- Creators
- Sandra L Bloom - Health Management and Policy
- Contributors
- Noreen Tehrani (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Managing Trauma in the Workplace, pp 159-173
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Other Identifier
- 991019174890104721