Tina Amanda
Women Lawyers in Rivers state have been encouraged to know their status as legal caregivers before dealing with people who are traumatised.
Management Consultant, Amaebi Okara, who stated this while delivering a lecture in a two-day Trauma Healing Workshop, organised by International Federation of Women Lawyers FIDA, said the society is increasingly getting traumatised.
According to him, situations such as fear, hopelessness and sorrow has led many people into a traumatic state, stressing that caregivers in these areas must deal with theirs first, before proferring solution.
“Our society is increasingly getting traumatised because people do not know what it is; people are struggling with it themselves and struggling with it for others. First of all, we must make people understand what trauma is, what the signs are, how to know when somebody is going through a traumatised situation, see it in ourselves and deal with it and also help our neighbours so our society will become less traumatic.”
Okara stressed further that trauma has contributed to so many people committing suicide, due to improper ways their cases or situation had been handled.
Some of the beneficiaries told our reporter Tina Amanda, that the training is timely, as it will help them to be better caregivers while dealing with cases of traumatised persons.
They noted that most legal issues and cases are being treated at the surface level without dealing with the root cause, adding that the training has given them the understanding on how to help a traumatised person get total healing from the inside.
They said the training has made them know that caregivers can also be traumatised as they are not superhuman, stressing that it’s crucial to take care of oneself while trying to help others.
