Trauma Informed Approach Content Topic Results

In the past decade, it has become increasingly clear that addressing trauma requires a multi-agency, multi-pronged approach. Public education, prevention, early identification, and effective trauma assessment and treatment are all necessary to break the cycle of trauma and violence. Significant progress has been made in creating organizational cultures based on knowledge of trauma and its impact (trauma-informed approaches), strategies to prevent or reduce rates of violence and trauma, and effective treatment interventions (trauma-specific treatments).

This document provides guidelines for making shelters safe for transgender evacuees.

This webinar provides core information and statistics about who transgender people are, the types and magnitude of violence they encounter, and the key intersections between disability and traumatic experience.

This paper presents findings from several studies demonstrating that women who experience domestic violence are more at risk for mental health problems.

This literature review provides an analysis of nine trauma-based treatments specifically designed or modified for survivors of domestic violence, along with caveats and recommendations for research and practice going forward.

Hosted by the Psychology Webinar Group, this professional awareness session led by specialist Kevin O'Brien explores how trauma and sexual abuse uniquely impact child and adolescent development. Discover how early trauma disrupts healthy developmental milestones, distorts attachment patterns, and alters cognitive processing in young survivors.

This document provides the benefits of sharing your story to promote resilience.

Many women, regardless of race or ethnicity, choose to continue to live with partners who have been (or continue to be) abusive. Traditional domestic violence intervention approaches have emphasized women leaving abusive relationships, but the applicability and acceptability of this approach for women from culturally diverse backgrounds, including immigrant and Latina survivors of IPV, is not well understood.

These guidelines aim to provide evidence-based guidance to health-care providers on the appropriate responses to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women, including clinical interventions and emotional support. They also seek to raise awareness among health-care providers and policymakers of gender-based violence in order to improve health-sector response to the problem.

This document provides multiple activities and events to encourage young people to work through challenges related to violence that informed the development of a community mural.

This guide provides information to support sexual assault services programs in strengthening their organizational and individual responses to survivors of sexual violence through the use of a trauma-informed approach. It provides an overview of the core principles of trauma-informed care and guiding points and questions to help organizations build cultures grounded in the philosophy of trauma-informed service delivery.

This chapter describes the range of services an immigrant victim of sexual assault can access through different programs and services of the health care system.