Betrayal Trauma & the Just World Hypothesis with Amora Sun

In amidst completing an 2D animation certificate, Amora continues to shrink. This episode is about how to advance accountability-taking in the helping professions as well as how patients, clients, and regular people who don't attend therapy, might be able to recover from betrayal trauma.

The Just World Hypothesis is a cognitive bias where people need to believe that the world is an orderly, predictable, and just place, where people get what they deserve. Such a belief plays an important function in our lives since in order to plan our lives or achieve our goals we need to assume that our actions will have predictable consequences (Andre & Valesquez, 2015). 

This fallacy can pose challenges for people who have experienced significant betrayal and have had the bottom fall out in multiple ways due to others' dislike of believing that something so horrible could happen out of nowhere to their good friend. We explore internalized doubt for sexual abuse survivors, how to remain ethical and centered in a world where people who may present themselves one way publicly can offend in private with inscrutable calmness, and how to respond if someone tells you about their experiences.

Lastly, Amora attends to the growing need for more people to train in the serious sub-specialties of family violence and sexual abuse recovery using empirical models to apply care, such as the Duluth model, named after the town Duluth, Minnesota, which pioneered a highly effective modality for preventing, intervening, following up and maintaining low incidence of family violence in their community. Amora offers supervision to counsellors interested in gaining additional training to respond strategically and effectively to people requiring help with family violence matters who are at least 3 years post-graduted from a graduate program in psychology or clinical social work.

(Music credit: "You Will Be Okay" written by Sam Haft, featured in the animated series, "Helluva Boss.")

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