Trauma-Informed Care
Learn compassionate approaches for supporting people with trauma histories.
Length of Session: Full Day (6 hours)
Facilitator training available upon request.
Theoretical Framework for Understanding Trauma
- Defining trauma and its systemic impacts.
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
- Introduction to trauma-informed approaches.
- Fight, flight, freeze, faint, and fawn responses.
- How triggers work.
- The window of tolerance model.
Principles of Trauma-Informed Care
- Specific examples of practice that perpetuate or exacerbate trauma responses.
- Recognizing and responding compassionately to trauma responses.
- Practically applying the principles of trauma-informed care in helping professions.
- Preventing burnout and compassion fatigue.
Trauma-Informed Organizarions
- How organizational contexts can perpetuate trauma.
- Characteristics of a trauma-informed/trauma-aware organization.
- Organizational examples in which participants recommend trauma-informed changes.
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