Trauma Informed Practice
An event that occurs to or is witnessed by one person.
What is Individual Trauma?
Compassion Fatique, Vicarious/Secondary Trauma, Personal Vulnerability, Grief and loss at work, Staff being victimized at work, Systems Trauma, Burnout
What are types of Staff Trauma?
Providing affirmations that are short, specific and sincere.
What is Praise?
You choose to address the individual's mood - not to address the behavior.
What is Selective Focus?
One Hand Grasp Release: Where the individual's fingers and thumb meet.
What is the Gate?
Events that occur between people who know each other and share a relationship, such as spouses, parents and children, other family members, etc.
What is Interpersonal Trauma?
PTG
What is Post Traumatic Growth?
Reflecting back what the other person has said (both the words and the accompanying feeling.
What is Active Listening?
Allowing individuals to voluntarily be by themselves, with comfort/sensory items identified in their ICWRP, to self-regulate.
What is Calming Time?
Two Hand Grasp Release: The wrist should be in this position.
What is Thumb Side Up?
Intentional, targeted oppression of specific populations. This trauma is likely to be passed down and experienced intergenerationally.
What is Historical Trauma?
Any time an individual can learn from you.
What is a Teachable Moment?
What is Undivided Attention?
Telling an individual, with sincerity: "you've done it before, you can do this now, and I'm here to help."
What is Reassurance?
The concept of protecting the neck and spine and keeping one's hair and scalp safer.
What is Stabilization?
Negative, disparaging, or hurtful messages (words, tone, looks, actions, etc.) conveyed to individuals because of their status in a historically marginalized group.
What are Microagressions?
What are Therapeutic Relationships?
We can always Validate.
What are feelings and experiences?
Making brief comments/questions in order to direct the conversation to a less upsetting topic.
What is Distraction?
Initial Protection is chin down and shoulders up.
What is "Turtling"?
Event, Experience, Effect.
What are the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) "Three E's"?
M.I.S.
What is Moving, Interacting, and Scanning?
The concept that two opposing ideas are not necessarily in conflict?
What is the Dialectical Approach?
"So, let's play out what you just said. What do you think might happen if...?
What is Exploring Outcomes?
Rather than pull away from a bite we should...
What is push the area being bitten into the individual's mouth with the intent to seal the mouth so the individual will have to open their mouth to take a breath?