Clinical social work has yet to address the trauma that prisoners experience from solitary confinement. This paper examines the relationship between trauma and solitary confinement from a social work perspective. The conservation of resources (COR) theory and structural racism provide frameworks from which clinical social workers can evaluate and intervene in the traumatic effects of solitary confinement for prisoners. A review of the literature suggests that few concrete interventions exist for clinical social workers to provide evidence-based treatments to prisoners traumatized by the experience of solitary confinement. The effectiveness of nature imagery, Clinical Alternative to Punitive Segregation (CAPS), and the Sanctuary Model for treating the trauma of solitary confinement are reviewed and evaluated based on their alignment with the COR theory of PTSD development, as well as their ability to address structural racism. This paper concludes with implications for both practice and policy and suggestions for future research to ensure that clinical social workers are prepared to advocate for clinical and policy measures that both alleviate the suffering of this vulnerable population and lay the groundwork for the abolition of solitary confinement all together.

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评估和干预单独监禁的创伤：社会工作的视角

临床社会工作尚未解决囚犯因单独监禁而遭受的创伤。本文从社会工作的角度探讨了创伤与单独监禁之间的关系。资源保护 (COR) 理论和结构性种族主义提供了框架，临床社会工作者可以从中评估和干预囚犯单独监禁的创伤性影响。对文献的回顾表明，临床社会工作者几乎没有为因单独监禁而受到创伤的囚犯提供循证治疗的具体干预措施。自然意象的有效性，惩罚性隔离的临床替代方案 (CAPS)，和用于治疗单独监禁创伤的避难所模型根据其与 PTSD 发展的 COR 理论的一致性以及它们解决结构性种族主义的能力进行审查和评估。本文总结了对实践和政策的影响以及对未来研究的建议，以确保临床社会工作者准备倡导临床和政策措施，既减轻这一弱势群体的痛苦，又为废除单独监禁奠定基础。一起。