Resisting retraumatisation
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How can we ensure that our services, policies and procedures are set up to avoid harm? Dr. Karen Treisman looks at the steps that we can take to help our organisations to become trauma-informed organisations.
How can we ensure that our services, policies and procedures are set up to avoid harm? Dr. Karen Treisman from Safe Hands, Thinking Minds looks at the steps we can take to help our organisations become trauma reducing instead of trauma inducing.
Talking points
This video looks at:
- Resisting retraumatising.
- Moving from being trauma-informed to being trauma-responsive.
- What it means to be trauma-informed across a whole system.
- What trauma-informed physical spaces might look like.
(Length: 7 minutes)
Reflective questions
Here are reflective questions to stimulate conversation and support practice.
- Can you identify points in your policies and procedures that might re-traumatise people? What can you do to change these?
- How might your organisation review the physical environment using a trauma-informed lens?
Further related resources are available below.
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Organisational context | Relationships and effective direct work | Shaping and influencing the practice system | Creating a context for excellent practice | Designing a system to support effective practice | Person-centred practice | Direct work with individuals and families | Organisational context | Values and ethics | Influencing and governing practice excellence within the organisation and community
CQC - Caring | Safe | Responsive
PCF - Values and ethics | Intervention and skills | Contexts and organisations
RCOT - Understanding relationship | Service users | Develop intervention
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