This is the first of two slideshows from the workshop "From Maltreatment to Well-Being" 2007

15. From Maltreatment to Well-Being: Imaginative Applications from Trauma Intervention for People with Disabilities Often, maltreatment has been an ongoing fact of life for years or even decades for the child or adult, in a home environment where alcoholism, mental illness, drug abuse and other family problems may co‑exist

24. Symptoms of Acute Stress PHYSICAL EMOTIONAL MENTAL BEHAVIORAL Nausea Upset stomach Diarrhea Feeling uncoordinated Chest pains* Difficulty breathing* Rapid heart beat Muscle aches Headache Chills Profuse sweating Sleep disturbances Dizziness Anxiety Fear Grief Depression Sadness Feeling lost Feeling abandoned Feeling isolated Worry about others Wanting to hide Limiting contact with others Anger Irritability Startled Shocked Slowed thinking Difficulty making decisions Difficulty in problem-solving Confusion Disorientation, especially to time and place Difficulty calculating Difficulty naming common objects Seeing event over and over Distressing dreams Poor attention span Withdrawal Restlessness Emotional outbursts Increased alcohol use Change in speech Change in appetite Increased startle reflex

31. Aristotle: " ...let there be a law that no deformed child shall live... " Plato: " the best of each sex should be united with the best as often, and the inferior with the inferior, as seldom as possible...the offspring of the inferior, or of the better when they chance to be deformed, will be put away ..."

32. " ...those infants who cannot be put to board, the crippled and the infirm, will be raised in the hospitals " (Napoleonic decree) Martin Luther: " take this child to the Moldau River which flows near Dessau and drown him "

33. “ ...If it is poor health, bad sight, defective hearing, stammering, syphilis, anemia, fatigue, sitting up too late at nights, eating slate pencils, smoking cigars, drinking beer, wage-earning before the time, tuberculosis, rheumatism, heart disease, adenoids, enlarged tonsils, repeated infections, or any other removable cause, let that cause be removed so that the child may not lose his life, health and education, nor the State lose its time, its money, and its citizens. ” (Helen MacMurchy, ca. 1912 Ontario)

34. “ If I take one of these children, and compel him to run the gauntlet of half a dozen specialist examinations, label him with some opprobrious name, exaggerate his imperfections, and advertise him on the housetops as a menace to society, I not only unjustly stigmatize him for life and cause untold suffering to himself and his friends, but I also render all subsequent treatment doubly difficult ” (Dr. S. B. Sinclair, ca. 1920’s Ontario)

35. “ Early in 1939, a father from Leipzig Germany who...’loved’ his severely handicapped son, wrote a letter to ask Adolf Hitler asking if it would not be okay to end the boy’s life. Hitler dispatched his personal physician Karl Brandt to determine if the boy’s life was ‘worth living’. When Brandt reported back that it was not, Hitler authorized him to give the boy a merciful death… (Sobsey, 1995)

36. Brandt was authorized to permit physicians to kill other people with disabilities. Safeguards were put in place. Every case was reviewed by at least two physicians to certify that his or her life was not worth living and that he or she was incurable. No one knows the number of people who were killed in this program. Some estimates are as ‘low’ as 200,000, others as high as 400,000. Most suggest that the number was about 275,000.

37. “ The methods of killing varied, lethal injections and carbon monoxide were commonly used because they were painless. Before mass exterminations made carbon monoxide canisters practical, gassings were commonly conducted using the exhaust from trucks. Later custom build (sic) gas chambers were built for the “euthanasia” program. To prevent the victims from being alarmed, the gas chambers were disguised as shower rooms…”

38. “ Only much later were the personnel, equipment, and methods learned in the euthanasia program exported to the ethnic death camps. The holocaust blossomed from the ‘mercy killing’ of one severely handicapped child back in 1939.” (Dick Sobsey, 1995)

39. Germany’s Laws against which these Euthanasia programs were justified were based on US Law from the State of Virginia.

40. “ If we could start afresh, our organization of Mental Health Services would start at the community level. Up to the present, we have been working backward to bring the mental hospitals closer to the community and this is the course that, by force of circumstance, we will have to continue, though hopefully at an increased rate. ” Dr. Matthew Dymond, ca. 1960’s Ontario

49. From Maltreatment to Well-Being: Imaginative Applications from Trauma Intervention for People with Disabilities