Trauma-informed care

The recent popularization of pop-culture movements and legislation aimed at reducing the numbers of sex trafficking victims worldwide has brought to highlighted the needs of survivors. Trauma-informed care has been cited as an effective practice to be utilized when interacting w…

There is a need to provide help to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who have experienced a history of abuse and trauma within their lives. In response to the need for a program to assist individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and…

The problem is the lack of research to determine if PTSD could be a variable that inhibits forensic populations from succeeding in the community reintegration process (Abracen et al., 2016; Kingston et al., 2017; Roy et al., 2016). The current study was designed to investigate t…

In 2010, the role of public health called to action research priorities to include causal pathways for mental illness and chronic disease within vulnerable populations of race, culture, and language. The field of mental health and health psychology has described trauma as being …

Purpose. This study examined the outcomes and effects that trauma-informed care (TIC) training had on the attitudes and knowledge of frontline parks and recreation staff who worked in urban after-school programs with children who may have histories of trauma.

Purpose. The purpose of this QI project was to implement a Migrant Well-Child Health Toolkit at Casa Alitas Welcome Center (CAWC) that serves as a guideline for volunteer medical professionals in conducting comprehensive well-child examinations on migrant children upon arrival t…

As trauma can have long lasting, negative impacts on an individual’s ability to have secure connection to others, empathic attunement can function as a restorative opportunity between trauma survivor and therapist in psychotherapy. Literature has indicated trainees can be vulner…

There is growing interest in trauma-informed nursing methods to better respond to the needs of patients with histories of adverse childhood experiences and other traumatic events. Recent advances in the understanding of how trauma can negatively affect long-term health outcomes …

Adoption, in and of itself, is only plausible due to the presence or history of trauma. Every event prior to adoption, during the time of adoption, and following adoption is characterized by, at minimum, implicit trauma and, possibly, explicit trauma. Adoption is inherently and …