Trauma-Informed Practice

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Approach to social work that recognizes and addresses the impact of traumatic experiences on individuals and families.

Trauma: The understanding of what trauma is, the different types of trauma, and how it affects individuals and their behaviors.
Resilience: The ability to overcome adversity and bounce back after experiencing trauma.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Traumatic events experienced during childhood that have lasting effects on mental and physical health in adulthood.
Trauma-Informed Care (TIC): An approach to care that recognizes the impact of trauma on individuals and seeks to create a safe and healing environment that promotes recovery.
Attachment Theory: The foundation of healthy relationships and the impact of early attachment experiences on later relationships.
Emotional Regulation: Techniques and strategies to manage and regulate emotions, especially in response to traumatic experiences.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): A goal-oriented approach to psychotherapy that aims to change negative thought patterns and behaviors.
Mindfulness: A practice of being present in the moment and focusing on one's thoughts and feelings.
Neurobiology of Trauma: The impact of trauma on the brain and how it affects behavior and emotional regulation.
Advocacy: The support of individuals who have experienced trauma and the promotion of policies and practices that prioritize their healing and well-being.
Self-Care: The importance of caring for oneself as a provider or caregiver to prevent burnout and vicarious trauma.
Cultural Competence: Recognizing and respecting the diversity of individuals and how trauma may impact different cultures differently.
Collaborative Practice: Working with families and other professionals to provide comprehensive and effective care for individuals who have experienced trauma.
Trauma Narrative: Encouraging individuals to process and make sense of their traumatic experiences through the creation of a narrative.
Trauma-Sensitive Schools: Creating a safe and supportive learning environment for students who have experienced trauma.
Trauma-Sensitive Organizations: Promoting trauma-informed practices within organizations to create a safe and supportive workplace.
Trauma-Sensitive Justice: Implementing trauma-informed practices within the justice system to promote healing and reduce recidivism.
Trauma-Sensitive Policy: Promoting policies and legislation that prioritize individuals who have experienced trauma and their healing.
Trauma-Specific Interventions: Specific evidence-based interventions that address trauma and its effects on individuals.
Family-Centered Practice: Focusing on the family as a unit and working collaboratively with them to promote healing and recovery from trauma.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT): A structured therapy model aimed at helping children, adolescents, and their families overcome the negative effects of trauma. It involves a structured therapy approach that aims at managing and reducing trauma symptoms, improving coping and problem-solving skills.
Seeking Safety: A model developed for people dealing with both trauma and addiction. It helps individuals learn healthy coping mechanisms and boundaries as well as strategies for managing both trauma symptoms and addiction.
Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP): A model that focuses on the relationship between parents and children who are experiencing the effects of traumatic stress. CPP helps to heal the emotional trauma that may have occurred in the relationship and helps parents learn more effective ways to interact with their children.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): A structured therapy model that incorporates eye movements to help clients process traumatic memories to develop more adaptive responses to memories with less emotional distress.
Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) Model: A model developed for children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma. It combines clinical interventions, skill-building activities and family and community support in order to build resiliency.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): An evidence-based approach that focuses on developing skills for managing intense emotions, interpersonal conflict, and distress related to trauma.
Somatic Experiencing: A body-centered approach to trauma that aims to help individuals restore their natural ability to regulate their nervous system.
"Trauma- and violence-informed care (TVIC) describes a framework for working with and relating to people who have experienced negative consequences after exposure to dangerous experiences."
"There is no one single TVIC framework, or model, and some go by slightly different names, including Trauma Informed Care (TIC)."
"TVIC frameworks can be applied in many contexts including medicine, mental health, law, education, architecture, addiction, gender, culture, and interpersonal relationships."
"Most TVIC principles emphasize the need to understand the scope of what constitutes danger and how resulting trauma impacts human health, thoughts, feelings, behaviors, communications, and relationships."
"Exposure to life-altering danger necessitates a need for careful and healthy attention to creating safety within healing relationships."
"Client-centered and capacity-building approaches are emphasized."
"Most frameworks incorporate a biopsychosocial perspective, attending to the integrated effects on biology (body and brain), psychology (mind), and sociology (relationship)."
"A basic view of trauma-informed care (TIC) involves developing a holistic appreciation of the potential effects of trauma with the goal of expanding the care-provider's empathy while creating a feeling of safety."
"A trauma-informed approach asks not 'What is wrong with you?' but rather 'What happened to you?'"
"A more expansive view includes developing an understanding of danger-response."
"In this view, danger is understood to be broad, include relationship dangers, and can be subjectively experienced."
"Danger exposure is understood to impact someone's past and present adaptive responses and information processing patterns." Unfortunately, there aren't further quotes from the paragraph that directly answer the remaining questions as they require further explanation or interpretation.