Within this conversation, Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn, an expert in resilience and trauma care joins us. We discuss post traumatic growth, and the 6 stages of meta-rehabilitation that Dr. Joyce has discovered from her many conversations with trauma survivors. She highlights commonalities found among trauma survivors, and the program she’s developed based on people’s lived experience of finding meaning after trauma.
Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn
Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn received her BSN from University of San Francisco, her FNP from University of California, Davis, and her MSN from California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). She completed her Doctor of Education at St. Mary’s College publishing: Transforming Life Crises, Stories of Metahabilitation After Catastrophic Life Events. A professor at CSUS her research involves trauma informed care with an emphasis on posttraumatic growth (PTG). Her system of recovery: MetaHabilitation©, promotes PTG and is applied in multiple recovery and rehabilitation programs. Publications include her book, Turning Tragedy Into Triumph. Metahabilitation; A Contemporary Model of Rehabilitation, and most recently, Anatomy Of A Survivor, Building Resilience, Grit and Growth After Trauma. Post-doctoral research involved secondary traumatization syndrome (STS) noting their PTG capability.
Key Words: trauma, secondary trauma, vicarious trauma, post traumatic growth, emotional trauma, methab, strengths-based approaches
