Trauma-Informed Care
Client-Centered Approach
Compare & Contrast
100

In this view, trauma is defined by this rather than by the event itself.

What is the individual's experience/perception of the event?

100

Clients and their families are seen as this during therapeutic intervention.

What are active collaborators?
100

This approach sees the clinician as a protector of safety.

What is trauma informed care?

200

Trauma often overwhelms a person's ability to do this.

What is cope? 

200

These people are seen as the experts of their lived experiences.

What are clients and their families?

200

This approach involves active listening and respect for preferences in treatment. 

What is client-centered care? 

300

Trauma-informed care reframes behaviors such as noncompliance, resistance, or poor motivation as these rather than deficits.

What are adaptive survival responses?

300

In practice, client-centered care involves asking clients and their families this.

What are their priorities/values?

300
This approach can be limited in more strict/rigid systems. 

What is client-centered care?

400

These five principles guide trauma-informed care: safety, transparency and trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, and this.

What is empowerment? 

400

In client-centered care, this person generally does not have control in treatment. 

What is the clinician?

400

This approach is much less structured, and requires the clinician to be flexible. 

What is trauma-informed care?

500

This core principle emphasizes creating an environment where clients feel physically and emotionally secure before expecting participation in therapy.

What is safety?

500

Client-centered care aims to reduce the risk of this. 

What is re-traumatization. 

500

This approach requires predictability from the clinician.

What is trauma-informed care?