Becoming Trauma Informed

Description

Most people accessing mental health and addiction services have experienced trauma. For those working in community services, treatment agencies and hospitals, providing "trauma-informed care" requires an understanding of the effects of trauma, and of how to create programs, spaces and policies that place priority on trauma survivors' safety, choice and control.  Becoming Trauma Informed describes trauma-informed practice at the individual, organizational and systemic levels. This multi-authored collection brings together the voices of those who have integrated trauma-informed principles into various mental health and addiction treatment and social service environments, and of the diverse groups with which they work.   Becoming Trauma Informed is an important resource for those who are working, or who are planning to work as addiction and mental health practitioners and program and system planners. Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction PART 1: WHAT IS “TRAUMA INFORMED” IN THEORY AND PRACTICE? Introduction SECTION 1: THEORY 1 A Developmental Understanding of Complex Trauma • Lori Haskell 2 Traumatic Learning • Linde Zingaro 3 Using a Feminist- and Trauma-Informed Approach in Therapy with Women • Brenda Toner and Donna Akman 4 Anti-oppression Psychotherapy as Trauma-Informed Practice • Roberta K. Timothy SECTION 2: PRACTICE 5 Collaborative Change Conversations: Integrating Trauma-Informed Care and Motivational Interviewing with Women • Cristine Urquhart and Frances Jasiura 6 Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis: A Trauma-Informed Praxis • Maria Haarmans 7 Trauma-Informed Body-Centred Interventions • Steven Hughes and Paul Hyman PART 2: TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTICE FOR DIVERSE CLIENT GROUPS AND IN SPECIFIC SETTINGS Introduction SECTION 1: DIVERSE GROUPS 8 Working in a Trauma-Informed Way with Clients Who Have a Developmental Disability • Anna M. Palucka and Yona Lunsky 9 Trauma-Informed Care for Refugees • Branka Agic 10 The Evolution of Trauma-Informed Practice at the Jean Tweed Centre • Julia Bloomenfeld and Tammy Rasmussen 11 Show Not Tell . . . Trauma-Informed Creative Engagement with Youth Who Have FASD • Mary Harber 12 Girls’ Groups and Trauma-Informed Intersectional Practice • Natalie Clark 13 Acknowledging and Embracing “the Boy inside the Man”: Trauma-Informed Work with Men • Roger Fallot and Richard Bebout 14 An Intergenerational Trauma-Informed Approach to Care for Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples • Peter Menzies SECTION 2: DIVERSE SETTINGS 15 Considering Trauma in Outpatient Substance Use Treatment Planning for Youth • Gloria Chaim, Susan Rosenkranz and Joanna Henderson 16 Using a Trauma-Informed Approach to Guide the Journey of Restraint Prevention • Athina Perivolaris and Ann Pottinger 17 Trauma-Informed Work with Families • Sabrina Baker 18 Trauma-Informed Care on a Women’s Inpatient Psychiatric Unit • Donna Akman and Cheryl Rolin-Gilman 19 Trauma-Informed Primary Care with Immigrant, Refugee and Non-status Women Living with HIV/AIDS • Mercedes Umaña PART 3: CHANGING THE SYSTEM THROUGH EDUCATION AND INNOVATION Introduction SECTION 1: EDUCATION 20 Building Community Capacity for Trauma-Informed Practice • Barbara K. Peck and Stephanie R. Capyk 21 Curricula to Support Trauma-Informed Practice with Women • Stephanie Covington 22 Responding to Women’s Self-Harm: A 10-Year Reflection on the Need for Trauma-Informed Care • Colleen Anne Dell 23 A Mother’s Loss: The Unacknowledged Grief of Child Apprehension for Women Who Use Substances • Tammy MacKenzie and Amy Druker SECTION 2: INNOVATION 24 Collaboration between Child Welfare and Substance Use Services • Diane Smylie and Carolyn Ussher 25 What Do Client Rights Have to Do with Trauma-Informed Care? • Jennifer Chambers 26 Integrated Screening, Assessment and Training as Critical Components of Trauma-Informed Care • Vivian B. Brown 27 Breaking Out of the Mould: Creating Trauma-Informed Antiviolence Services and Housing for Women and Their Children • Lynda Dechief with Janice Abbott 28 Integrating Treatment of Tobacco with Other Substances in a Trauma-Informed Way • Nancy Poole and Judy Lyon 29 Responding to the Women: YWCA Toronto Moves Its Practice to a Trauma-Informed Approach • Lorraine Greaves in conversation with Jennie McKnight, Ruth Crammond and Heather McGregor Conclusion About the Editors About the Authors