Trauma informed practice Flashcards
(23 cards)
What has trauma informed practice become?
- it has become a federal, state and local priority for health services across Australia
what is individual trauma?
- an event, series of events that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and has lasting effects on individuals mental, physical, social, emotional well being
What is interpersonal trauma?
- adverse childhood events, child maltreatment, domestic and sexual violence.
what is collective trauma?
- cultural, historical, social, political and structural traumas that impact individuals and communities across generations
what does it mean to be trauma focused?
- services that are directly focused on treating and addressing the impacts of trauma.
- programs and therapy models designed specifically to address, target, intervene with symptoms resulting from trauma
What is Trauma-informed practice?
- applying the knowledge and lens of trauma along with its guiding values
What does it mean to be trauma informed?
- recognising the possibility that someone may have experienced trauma, adversity or stress
- encourages a broader perspective, acknowledging how stress, distress, dissociation intersect with trauma
Why do we use a universal approach?
- it is preventative, proactive , compassionate and healing
what is the rationale for trauma informed relating to the universal approach?
- systematic issues like discrimination in healthcare have left lasting scars, creating mistrust
- we want to create safe spaces and places which are trauma reducing
what is the notion of the universal approach?
- “every interaction is an intervention”
- “people need to be therapists to do therapy however, people do not need to be therapists to be therapeutic”
What are the 5 Rs of trauma informed care?
- Realise (how widespread trauma is recognise impact on individuals etc)
- Recognise (behaviours and responses may be linked to past)
- Respond (apply trauma informed principles)
- Resist retraumatision (avoid causing further stress)
- Replenish (emphasis on restoring balance)
What are the guiding values?
- safety, trust, collaboration, choice, empowerment, culture
- take a holistic approach, importance of restorative and reciprocal practices
what are coping questions?
- allow us to acknowledge challenges that people are experiencing while highlighting their resilience
what is double listening (White, 2004)?
- a way to hear both the problem story someone is telling and the alternative (untold) story that might exist beneath the surface
- attentive to said explicitly and what is implicitly present
what is the risk of invalidation?
- how well-meaning comments can shut down conversations
what can the risk of invalidation lead to?
- judgement and fear on engagement
- less likely to trust those they are interacting with
what are macroaggressions?
- systematic and institutional forms of discrimination that impact entire cultural groups
what are microaggressions?
- brief and commonplace daily verbal or behavioural indignities.
- intentional or unintentional
- hostile, derogatory or negative sights that have harmful psychological impact on the target person or group
How do microaggressions reinforce inequality?
- frame dominant culture as normal while marginalising others
- express subtle disapproval or discomfort toward marginalised groups
what are microassults?
- intentional discriminatory acts, both verbal and non verbal
what are microinsults?
- subtle but offensive comments or actions that demean a persons racial identity
what are microinvalidations?
- comments or behaviours that dismiss the thoughts, feelings, or lived experiences of marginalised individuals
how are microaggressions linked with wellbeing?
- they can trigger psychological and physiological stress response.
