Introduce your brand

Sample Trauma Screening Tools

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences Scale (ACES)

  • Brief Trauma Questionnaire (BTQ)

  • Childhood Attachment and Relational
    Trauma Screen (CARTS)

  • Short Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Rating
    Interview (SPRINT)

  • Life Events Checklist for DSM-5 (LEC-5)


Trauma-Informed

Training Topics

  • The basics of trauma-informed care

  • Crisis prevention, de-escalation, and intervention

  • Abuse, neglect, and exploitation prevention

  • Cultural competency
    Professional ethics
    Motivational interviewing
    Trauma-informed supervision
    Evidence-based practices for trauma

  • Employee wellness practices and self-care

Trauma informed organizations:

  • Create an environment that is safe for staff to share personal and work-related stressors
    Offer support through supervision

  • Offer EAP or other professional services

  • Train to increase confidence and competence in job performance

  • Educate to increase awareness about the impact of stress on work outcomes

  • Develop meaningful stress management strategies

Vicarious Trauma

  • Exposure to traumatic experiences of others

  • Factors that interfere with the ability to fulfill responsibility to assist traumatized individuals can contribute to vicarious trauma

Secondary Traumatic Stress

  • Physical, emotional stress responses to working with highly traumatized patients.

  • Affects cognitive, emotional, behavioral, physical, spiritual and social functioning

  • Presents more quickly than burnout, but is also responsive to solutions

Compassion Fatigue

  • Physical, emotional, and spiritual exhaustion

  • Accompanied by acute emotional pain

  • May result from a lack of balance between empathy and objectivity when providing care

Moral Injury

  • Violation in the values of the healthcare provider not just ethical sensibilities

  • Ability to put patients first is impeded resulting in feeling that moral needs are not aligned.

  • Providers feel like the sacrifices they made for their role may not be worth it

he COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing stressors and introduced new challenges that significantly impacted individuals' mental health and well-being worldwide. Trauma-informed care became increasingly important in the wake of the pandemic for several reasons:

  1. Increased rates of trauma: The pandemic itself, with its associated disruptions such as illness, loss of loved ones, economic hardships, social isolation, and uncertainty, has led to increased rates of trauma among individuals and communities.

  2. Heightened mental health needs: The pandemic exacerbated existing mental health conditions and triggered new ones for many individuals. Trauma-informed care is crucial in addressing the complex needs of those experiencing heightened anxiety, depression, PTSD, and other mental health challenges.

  3. Prolonged stress and burnout: Healthcare workers, essential workers, caregivers, and other frontline workers have experienced prolonged stress, burnout, and trauma due to the demands of their roles during the pandemic. Trauma-informed care is essential in supporting these individuals and addressing their unique needs.

  4. Disparities and inequities: The pandemic has disproportionately affected marginalized and vulnerable populations, exacerbating existing health and social disparities. Trauma-informed care is critical in addressing these disparities and providing culturally responsive support to individuals and communities most affected.

  5. Disruption of support systems: The pandemic disrupted social support systems and access to traditional mental health services for many individuals. Trauma-informed care emphasizes creating supportive environments and alternative forms of support to address these gaps.

  6. Collective trauma: The global nature of the pandemic has led to a sense of collective trauma, with individuals and communities experiencing shared grief, loss, and upheaval. Trauma-informed care acknowledges and addresses this collective trauma while promoting resilience and healing.

  7. Long-term effects: The effects of the pandemic on mental health and well-being are expected to persist long after the immediate crisis has passed. Trauma-informed care is essential in providing ongoing support and addressing the long-term impacts of trauma.

Reading resources:

Reading:

Dr Perry

What Happened to You

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

Gabor Mate

-The myth of normal 

-in The Realm of The Hungry Ghosts


Self awareness:

My brain some days feels like a sponge that’s full, and it’s starting to leak

BAP content

Never a lecture

People are experts in their own lives

Respect autonomy

People have the right to change or not to change


Elizabeth’s quote

Gabor mate quote:

Viktor Frankie quote:

Conversations around trauma”

Training about the pathway of trauma, recovery, resilience, hope, and healing 


TIC training

Objective: Trauma Informed Care training focusing on the teaching the impact of trauma on the brain and body, brain care - self care, neuroscience and epigenetics, and practicing skills to facilitate recovery, resilience, hope, and healing.

There are evidence based skill we all can learn such as soft belly breathing, writing, movement, imagery, etc …. to help us manage stress and trauma to help us build hope and resilience 


Services:

Trauma trainings

Trauma Informed Care

ACEs

Mind Body Medicine Skills

Brief Action Planning-Motivational Interviewing

Deescalation: Crisis Prevention Intervention

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

— James Baldwin