Smith, Penn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7522-4461 and Charura, Divine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3509-9392 (2024) Working through relational trauma: An exploration of narratives of lived experiences of trauma and recovery. In: Boden-Stuart, Zoë and Larkin, Michael, (eds.) Relationships and Mental: Health Relational Experience in Distress and Recovery. Springer

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Abstract

This chapter offers a critical exploration of the importance of encountering therapeutic and reparative relationships when working through psychological trauma. We draw from two key research studies conducted with 15 service users from a United Kingdom (UK) mental health rehabilitation and recovery service and 12 asylum-seekers and refugees based in the UK. This chapter is informed by relational-centred, existential-phenomenological theoretical perspectives which assert that all humans have built-in propensity to grow to their full potential when specific conditions are met. However, personal problems and trauma may arise in and through relationships, thereby interrupting connection with self and others. Relationships and experiences which offer the right conditions for transformation enable growth and change in one’s felt sense of self and being in the world.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
School/Department:	School of Education, Language and Psychology
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/7511

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