TIC Principles
This principle involves establishing a physical and emotional environment where individuals feel secure and protected.
What is safety?
When an individual refuses to tell their trauma story, we should make them so we can help them.
False. Forcing someone to share their trauma story can be retraumatizing and is almost never helpful.
This approach asks the question: "What happened to you?" instead of "What's wrong with you".
What is Trauma Informed Care approach?
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What is Acentra Health?
Using essential oils like lavender, amber, or sandalwood helps us cope using this sense.
What is the sense of smell?
This principle involves being transparent, reliable, and consistent in interactions and decision-making.
What is trustworthiness?
Trauma is an event rather than our body's response to an event.
False. Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible, distressing or disturbing event.
According to the National Council for Behavioral Health, this is the percentage of American adults who have experienced a traumatic event at least once in their lifetime.
Name the TIC principle at work: Sgt. Scapardine communicates all necessary and pertinent information to PIOC Jones regarding their property send outs, laying out their options and consequences.
What is Choice?
Listening to music that matches your mood or soothing sounds helps us cope using this sense.
This principle recognizes the importance of providing individuals with opportunities to have control over their care and can involve offering various options and empowering individuals to participate in the decision-making process.
What is choice?
Experiencing trauma impacts an individual's worldview and belief system.
True. Those negatively impacted by trauma often view the world as unsafe or unpredictable.
This is the type of approach at the foundation of Trauma Informed Care.
What is strength-based approach?
Name the TIC principle at work: Uniform and supervisory staff complete all rounds, ensuring everyone is accounted for and physically stable.
What is safety?
Looking at photos of loved ones, mental imagery, and creating a vision board helps us cope using this sense.
What is the sense of sight?
This principle involves working with individuals and their support networks to develop and implement care plans. It recognizes the importance of shared decision-making and mutual respect.
What is collaboration?
Common symptoms of trauma include: hypervigilance, emotional numbing, flashbacks, sweating, anxiety/depression, sleep/eating disturbances and difficulty concentrating.
True. Symptoms of trauma can often be experienced physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Being seen as a label, being isolated, and practices without cultural considerations can be considered as this.
What is Retraumatizing?
Name the TIC Principle at work: In multi-disciplinary meeting, staff discusses concerns with PIOC Smith in order to get perspectives from psychological services, health services, social services, and security and come up with a comprehensive approach for concerns related to PIOC Smith.
What is collaboration?
Using a fuzzy blanket, basking in the warmth of the sun, and taking a hot or cold shower help us cope using this sense.
What is the sense of touch?
This principle focuses on recognizing and building the strengths and resilience of individuals. It involves supporting individuals to take control of their lives, make choices, and develop their own coping mechanisms.
What is empowerment?
Experiencing trauma has no impact on our physical health.
False. Research has shown that experiencing trauma, especially before the age of 18, is linked to negative physical health outcomes like: heart disease, diabetes, stroke, cancer, chronic pain, and autoimmune disorders.
This is a common, and necessary, justice practice that may trigger symptoms of trauma in an individual.
What are: pat searches, strip searches, cuffing, isolation, etc.
Name the TIC principle at work: PIOC Green identifies as transgender and has indicated they prefer he/they pronouns. Staff refers to PIOC according to preferred pronouns.
What is empowerment?
The 5 senses, imagery, coloring mandalas, and doing crosswords are all examples of this category of coping.
What is mindfulness?