Family-based therapy as a model countering traumas following homelessness

Countering homelessness through lifespan skills

Saint Charles Lwanga America Center (SCLAC) is here to contribute to healthy living. 

Come with two human treasures, humility and readiness to be part of our activities. You will be part of our community and during our managed stay sit-in/physical meeting sessions we shall guide you in setting up conversations that inspire dynamism and revitalization. 

You have agency, autonomy, self-determination aspirations and productivity potential. What you tell yourself is known as internal dialogue or self-talk. Self-talk is highly likely related to your own productivity.  This is in turn improves your cognitive performance and self-regulation which altogether enhance your self-determination aspirations. 

You will be guided and allowed to be part of the self-improvement sessions whose outcomes are self-efficacy and resilience. We use evidence-based models infused with themes covered during planned roundtable conversations. We call our sessions Therapy Mini-Workshops (TMWs). We embed our integrated approaches as in the picture. 

Evidence-informed and science-based approaches to enshrine decision-support mechanisms countering homelessness

There are several ways to counter homelessness. 

In our case we use the interface approaches that center lifespan goals. We rely on the facilitated and mentor-led Family-based therapy sessions where we identify themes aligned to your functioning and performance goals [[1]]. 

We turn your own goals derived from previous in-take sessions [[2]] into cues for self-talk. The language, style, tone, directives and dedication influence satisfaction, self-efficacy, and optimize performance. 

Some examples of cognitive performance include the power of identifying decisions that promote better life outcomes like efforts to regain eligibility for housing and self-direction enhancing commitment to keep one’s house. Examples of self-regulation include leveraging the best options by fielding questions that paint a better vision of your self-determination paths (the question-behavior effect). 

The guided sessions establish good faith and exploration of progress from self-improvement sessions to self-efficacy and resilience. We plan to have four Therapy Mini-Workshops (TMWs) per participant. After the sessions you will be able to take on tasks necessary for regaining employment, housing, nutrition and health support which are part of recovery and final restitution.

 


[1] Kim, J., Kwon, J. H., Kim, J., Kim, E. J., Kim, H. E., Kyeong, S., & Kim, J. J. (2021). The effects of positive or negative self-talk on the alteration of brain functional connectivity by performing cognitive tasks. Scientific reports, 11(1), 14873. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94328-9.

 

[2] Cabral, L. L., da Silva, C. K., Delisle-Rodriguez, D., Lima-Silva, A. E., Galanis, E., Bertollo, M., … Pereira, G. (2024). Motivational self-talk mitigates the harmful impact of mental fatigue on endurance performance. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 36(2), 257–275. https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2023.2208643. 

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