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Trauma-Informed Care
Primer
Trauma-informed therapy and care takes into account the impacts of trauma in all aspects of a patient's care. The trauma survivor's safety, choice, and control is the priority. The treatment culture should be one of non-violence, learning, and collaboration.
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Key Principles
- Trauma awareness
- Understanding and exploring the impact of criticism, experiences of abandonment, lack of adult support, and a curisoty about the role of early development trauma on interpersonal deficits and mood/axniety
- Emphasis of safety and trustworthiness
- Need for predictability, consistency, crisis planning, and discussions about trust
- Opportunity for choice, collaboration and connection
- Model open communication, discussions about power differences, and negotiating breaches (e.g. - late appointments)
- Strengths-based and skill building
- Viewing all behaviours and interactions as adaptations, and possible survival resources, and building on these
Ways to Support Trauma Patients
- Grounding techniques
- Window of Tolerance Model
- Trigger Scale
- Parallel Lives