Definitions
Principles
Self-Care
Responses
100

This is characterized by welcoming patients and ensuring that they feel respected and supported. 

Creating a safe and supportive

Social-Emotional Environment

100

Trauma-informed approaches to care prioritize understanding the root causes of individuals' struggles by shifting the focus from symptoms to experiences. 

Incorrect Approach: "What's wrong with you?"

What is the correct approach?

"What happened to you?"

100

This self-care strategy incorporates activities like walking, jogging, yoga, or dancing into our regular routine to help reduce stress, boost mood, and increase overall well-being. 

Engage in physical activity

100

This compassionate response to trauma survivors helps maintain a safe and respectful environment through support and service delivery.

Being consistent

200

Keeping parking lots, common areas, bathrooms, entrances, and exits well-lit is an example of...

Creating a safe 

Physical Environment

200

This core principle utilizes individuals' strengths and provides individuals with information about treatment so they can make informed decisions based on their preferences.

Empowerment, Voice, & Choice

200

This self-care strategy relies on help from a therapist or a counselor who specializes in working with trauma-exposed individuals.

Seek professional support

200

This compassionate response to trauma survivors helps understand and validate survivors' feelings of uncertainty and fear about addressing their trauma.

Showing empathy

300

The emotional and psychological distress experienced by individuals as a result of indirect exposure to traumatic events through their work or personal relationships with trauma survivors.

Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS)

300

This core principle establishes clear expectations regarding proposed treatment, service providers, and delivery of care.

Trustworthiness

300

This self-care strategy dedicates time to things like reading, painting, or playing music.

Engage in hobbies and activities

300

This compassionate response to trauma survivors helps survivors see difficult emotions as manageable hurdles rather than insurmountable obstacles.

Normalizing challenges

400

Exposure to abuse, neglect, discrimination, violence, and other unfavorable events during childhood.

Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE)

400

This core principle provides opportunities for individuals to connect with others who have similar experiences, reducing feelings of isolation and fostering a sense of community.

Peer Support

400

This self-care strategy establishes clear boundaries between work and personal life to prevent burnout and maintain emotional balance.

Set Boundaries

400

This compassionate response to trauma survivors helps connect survivors with others at various stages of recovery to provide encouragement and solidarity.

Offering peer support

500

An individual's experience of an event, series of events, or set of circumstances perceived as physically or emotionally harmful, life-threatening, or distressing.

Trauma

500

Safety is one of the six core principles of trauma-informed care. These are the two types of safety

Physical and social-emotional

500

This self-care strategy utilizes techniques such as meditation, deep breathing exercises, or progressive muscle relaxation to manage stress and promote resilience.

Practice mindfulness

500

This compassionate response to trauma survivors helps encourage belief in the possibility of recovery over time and emphasize that discomfort is a normal part of the process.

Fostering hope

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