For nearly 4 decades, trauma-informed care has been the focus of numerous scholarly studies in a variety of contextual settings. While the focus of most research in education has been on how school staff might implement trauma-informed practices, little research exists that supp…
The purpose of this improvement initiative was to increase educator capacity in identifying and addressing the many needs of children who have experienced trauma at an elementary school in Concord, North Carolina. The problem of practice examined the impact of trauma on school-a…
Thousands of parents make the decision to foster and/or adopt children who have suffered various forms of abuse and neglect. There are hundreds of thousands of children who are waiting to be adopted or to be placed in foster care (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2016). Many o…
This thesis proposes a trauma-informed approach to voice lessons in a private studio setting in order to advance the development of trauma-informed practice in vocal pedagogy. The primary method of research is review of recent literature regarding trauma-informed practices withi…
Over 2,100 individuals serving juvenile life without paroles (JLWOP) sentences in the U.S. became eligible for resentencing following the 2016 Montgomery v. Louisiana Supreme Court ruling. Michigan housed an estimated 370 juvenile lifers at that time, the second largest JLWOP co…
The current study focuses on the construction of a trauma-informed manualized training for law enforcement sexual assault response. The teaching material within this manual is gathered from an extensive literature review of advocacy for sexual assault survivors, other law enforc…