Definitions
This is characterized by welcoming patients and ensuring that they feel respected and supported.
Creating a safe and supportive
Social-Emotional Environment
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?"
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
This compassionate response to trauma survivors helps maintain a safe and respectful environment through support and service delivery.
Being consistent
Keeping parking lots, common areas, bathrooms, entrances, and exits well-lit is an example of...
Creating a safe
Physical Environment
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
This self-care strategy relies on help from a therapist or a counselor who specializes in working with trauma-exposed individuals.
Seek professional support
This compassionate response to trauma survivors helps understand and validate survivors' feelings of uncertainty and fear about addressing their trauma.
Showing empathy
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)
This core principle establishes clear expectations regarding proposed treatment, service providers, and delivery of care.
Trustworthiness
This self-care strategy dedicates time to things like reading, painting, or playing music.
Engage in hobbies and activities
This compassionate response to trauma survivors helps survivors see difficult emotions as manageable hurdles rather than insurmountable obstacles.
Normalizing challenges
Exposure to abuse, neglect, discrimination, violence, and other unfavorable events during childhood.
Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE)
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
This self-care strategy establishes clear boundaries between work and personal life to prevent burnout and maintain emotional balance.
Set Boundaries
This compassionate response to trauma survivors helps connect survivors with others at various stages of recovery to provide encouragement and solidarity.
Offering peer support
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
Safety is one of the six core principles of trauma-informed care. These are the two types of safety
Physical and social-emotional
This self-care strategy utilizes techniques such as meditation, deep breathing exercises, or progressive muscle relaxation to manage stress and promote resilience.
Practice mindfulness
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