Reflection On Tina's Story

Tina’s story is not a story that you just read and then forget. It follows you, and makes you wonder about children who suffer from traumatic experiences. The sexual abuse that Tina had to endure is heartbreaking, and the many issues she is struggling with as a result of the abuse is even more heartbreaking. Dr. Perry describes his helplessness or incompetence how he describes it, perfectly. All the schooling he received couldn’t prepare him for Tina’s case, because most clients stories and symptoms do not fit a catalog of disorders that one can use as a checklist to make a safe diagnosis. I think his second supervisor made a great point when he asked Dr.Perry to tell him about Tina and not her symptoms, like where she lives, or what her
Perry for the first time and automatically assumes that he wanted sex from her, because of the way she was introduced to men from a very young age. In some ways, I felt like the traumatic imprints on her mind wouldn’t ever be able to be erased or her neurological pathways wouldn’t be able to fully be restructured. I had hope reading Tina’s process, and was saddened by the news that she had acted out at school. I felt many emotions while reading her story and was rooting for her to overcome her difficult life journey that had started so early in life. Dr. Perry makes a great point at the end of the story, he states that he was able to help her learn to resist impulses, and show her a different behavior of an adult male, and that sexual behavior wasn’t always appropriate, but he couldn’t’ replace the template that was forged in the tissue of her young brain due to the repetitive abuse. He realizes that he needs more research on the brain and how traumatic stress impacts the neurological pathways to be able to help clients like Tina more successfully (Perry & Salavitz, 2006,
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