Trauma Resolution
Youth who have experienced significant substance
abuse frequently experience significant trauma. For many youth,
this trauma is experienced as compromised values and severe
losses of self and family. For others, this abuse is
experienced as brutal episodes of sexual and physical abuse
while under the influence. for others, it is the tragedy of
ritualistic abuse and gang affiliations. All of this abuse
results in traumatic suffering and true loss.
All of this abuse results in traumatic
suffering. And true reclamation of self requires resolving this
pain and loss. Shoreline provides services for discovering and
recovering from the traumas which result from substance abuse
and mistreatment. But youth are not the only victims of trauma
from their abuse of chemicals. Any parent of a chemically
dependent child knows the agony and loss of a countless number
of sleepless nights and forgotten dreams.
The family can only truly recover as they
reconcile the trauma they have experienced together. Youth and
their families work together under direct supervision of
clinical staff to resolve these losses using principles
developed through guided written therapy and embodied in a
proven program of trauma resolution.
