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Envisioning a better victim response
Published in Rachel E. Lovell, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape, 2023
Margaret J. McGuire, Danielle B. Sabo, Joanna Klingenstein
In the context of a reformed response to sexual assault, in this chapter we explore how victim services could better serve survivors. What themes exist among survivors' demands for change in the system and what services are research-supported? Lessons from the past indicate that the future of victim services must prioritize empowering, trauma-informed, intersectional and culturally responsive, and accessible services for all survivors of sexual violence. Recognizing that trauma impacts all aspects of a survivor's life, trauma-informed care means intentionally structuring both interpersonal interactions and organizational responses to promote healing and avoid causing further harm or distress (Palmieri & Valentine, 2021).
The development of an assessment which provides a practical application of the concept of the dark side of occupation for practitioners and students
Published in Rebecca Twinley, Illuminating the Dark Side of Occupation, 2020
Trauma-informed care helps practitioners understand the impact trauma may have on an individual, recognise the signs and symptoms of trauma, and incorporate trauma-informed practices to prevent re-traumatisation (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), 2014). Trauma-informed care is practised at the programme, organisation, or system level. There are six key principles of trauma-informed care: safety, trustworthiness and transparency, peer support, collaboration and mutuality, empowerment, and cultural and gender issues (see Table 14.2).
Pre-conceptual and antenatal care
Published in Helen Baston, Midwifery, 2020
Midwives have a valuable role to play in breaking the cycle, so that babies of mothers who have experienced adversity do not then fall victim to neglect or emotional and physical trauma. Asking ‘What has happened to you?’ rather than ‘What is wrong with you?’ can elicit information that can help midwives understand the mother’s perspective and where she can be referred to for help. Trauma-informed care is a model that is now forming and developing in the UK for practitioners across many social and healthcare sectors and NHS Education Scotland is leading the way providing valuable models and educational resources.
The landscape of trauma informed care in community-based HIV service organizations in the United States south
Published in AIDS Care, 2023
Samira Ali, Megan Stanton, Katie McCormick, Susan Reif
Organizations are at the forefront of providing physical and behavioral health services for PLWH. Organizational approaches, practices, and structures are important drivers of the type and quality of care. Trauma informed care, a SAMHSA evidence-based practice, is one such promising intervention to respond to the impact of trauma for both the service user and provider (SAMHSA, n.d.). Differing from individual level interventions, trauma informed care is an organizational level intervention that focuses on all aspects of service delivery, systems, and structures, such as screening clients for trauma and addressing trauma in their policies and procedures documents. While TIC intervention research is limited in the context of HIV prevention and treatment, recent research indicates the importance of implementing TIC approaches to enhance staff and service users’ well-being (Kalokhe et al., 2020).
Interventions for addressing trauma among people with HIV: a narrative review
Published in AIDS Care, 2022
Hilary Goldhammer, Linda G. Marc, Nicole S. Chavis, Demetrios Psihopaidas, Massah Massaquoi, Sean Cahill, Erin Nortrup, Carol Dawson Rose, Janet Meyers, Kenneth H. Mayer, Stacy M. Cohen, Alex S. Keuroghlian
Our search yielded five articles on two intervention studies of trauma-informed care for populations with HIV (Cuca et al., 2019; Dawson-Rose et al., 2019; Kalokhe et al., 2020; Piper et al., 2021; Sales et al., 2019). Trauma-informed care is an organization-wide, client-centered approach that acknowledges and responds to trauma and its effects on health (Machtinger et al., 2015). An ideal trauma-informed practice: develops trauma-informed principles and values that guide all practice; creates a safe environment to prevent re-traumatization; trains all staff on trauma and its effects on clients and themselves; promotes self-care for staff; screens all patients for trauma and common behavioral health comorbidities; and offers onsite or community-based treatment options (Machtinger et al., 2015; Piper et al., 2021).
What are We Forgetting? Sexuality, Sex, and Embodiment in Abortion Research
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2021
Katrina Kimport, Krystale E. Littlejohn
Attending to the interplay between abortion and sexuality that highlighting sexual embodiment compels can direct researchers to new questions, for example, following the lead of other researchers in related areas. Increasing awareness of the prevalence of sexual assault and intimate partner violence in patient populations has led to scholarly and clinical interest in trauma-informed care practices. Trauma-informed care is an evidence-based approach that recognizes the prevalence of trauma in patients’ (and healthcare professionals’) lives and seeks practices of care provision that avoid re-traumatization and promote healing and recovery. In the realm of obstetrics, midwifery, and gynecology, scholarship has researched the integration of trauma-informed care in prenatal care and childbirth as well as in gynecologic care unrelated to pregnancy (Reeves, 2015). Trauma-informed abortion care has not received the same attention in the literature. Such questions are difficult to engage under a framework that conceptualizes abortion and sexuality as fully separable. Sensitivity to how the body links abortion, sexuality, and power enables research questions about how sexual experiences, including non-consensual experiences, prior to an abortion may matter for how the abortion is experienced, as well as questions about how and what aspects of the delivery of abortion care may matter for subsequent sexual experiences.