Conversations with young people in rural and remote places: transforming the emerging self (ANZAP 16th Annual Conference "Trauma and the Transformational Conversation").
This paper describes the laying of a foundation for transformation of the inner world and the emergence of "self" in young people using the Conversational Model. The author works with young people in a technical college in a remote part of Victoria Australia. Some of the clients have experienced extreme trauma as children and live in an ongoing state of traumatic stress. The young clients are deep thinkers and intelligent, yet trapped by dysfunctional family settings. Their situations are compounded by the remote and rural location of their community. The conversational process promotes the gradual transformation of their inner world and the emergence of a healthier "self."
Bannerman
Anne Morris
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population; D012649:Self Concept; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities; D014739:Victoria