Trauma-aware parishes can: demonstrate sensitivity to trauma’s impact on its members and their loved ones; help parishioners recognize their experience of, and responses to, trauma; and provide restorative spiritual and professional resources in a variety of ways.
Summary
Catholic Charities USA’s Whole Hearted is a parish-based trauma-awareness resource that integrates spirituality and religious practices with behavioral health.
The Facilitator Guide walks the leader through their role of establishing and maintaining a safe, trustworthy place that holds participants’ thoughts, feelings, comments and experiences in a respectful and authentic way. Parishes and organizations can offer Whole Hearted as a day of reflection or four weekly sessions.
Whole Hearted is meant to provide basic and helpful trauma awareness. It is not a substitute for clinical or professional therapy.
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Whole Hearted Series
The Whole Hearted series integrates spirituality and religious practices with behavioral health. It informs participants of trauma’s impact and how one might begin to move forward, both mentally and spiritually.
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