Trauma Informed Care
Healing and recovery
Many of the people we support and work with have experienced often repeated traumatic events that may include repeated placements, hospital admissions and abuse. The more complex a person’s needs are, the more likely they are to experience over medication and high levels of restraint and seclusion.
We are particularly aware of the high risk of burn out and compassion fatigue in care teams and families and endorse life long learning and reflection through inclusive debriefing, training and supervision.
We are committed to acknowledging abuse in an open and shameless way and recognise that understanding a person’s past can help healing and recovery using relational approaches.
Relational approaches
- Are by default rights respecting and involve more than learning about rights, they involve making rights real in everyday practice.
- Include a range of different approaches which can be used for different purposes in different situations, all of which complement each other including PBS, such as being proactive in supporting needs – wellbeing, social and emotional, and learning.
Trauma informed practice
Trauma informed practice recognises different types of trauma and acknowledges that trauma is common.
It also recognises the signs of trauma and responses include:
- Being someone that can be trusted.
- Offering choices and control in situations when someone feels unsafe.
- Showing compassion and not judgement.
- Working with others to provide holistic help and support.
- Focussing on strengths and not deficits.
- Seeks to actively resist re-traumatisation.
