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Healing Interventions
Healing Interventions
Interventions that are trauma-informed, and any support that is delivered to be done so in a way that appreciates the impact of trauma and minimises further harm.
Staff Practice Points
1. Sensitive routine inquiry of adversity and trauma forms the basis of our assessments and planning.
2. Our interventions are delivered in an explicit trauma-informed way, matched to needs and available long enough to make a difference.
3. Staff support service-users to create conditions where healing from trauma can begin e.g., housing, income, physical safety etc.
4. A range of specialist trauma therapies are available including for those with complex trauma and dissociation.
5. Any new interventions are evaluated for clinical outcomes, impact on functioning and service user experience.
6. Trauma interventions are offered proactively to prevent crises.
7. Any trauma interventions are delivered as part of a wider coherent plan across agencies.
User Practice Points
1. Sensitive questions about bad things in people’s lives from the basis of assessments.
2. Interventions are delivered in a way to suit my individual needs for long enough to make a difference.
3. Staff support me in creating a life where my recovery can begin.
4. A range of specialist trauma therapies are available if I needed them.
5. Interventions are evaluated properly and include me in this evaluation.
6. I have access to ‘interventions’ to prevent a crisis in my mental health.
7. Interventions addressing the bad things in my life are coordinated with the rest of my care.
Narratives
Transitioning to a trauma-informed forensic unit: Exploring staff perceptions of a shift in organisational culture
My experience so far has been doing focus groups with staff of the female forensic units at Roseberry Park in Middlesbrough that recently transitioned to a trauma informed care model. The purpose of the study is to explore staff
compassionate and transformational leadership, healing interventions
The impact trauma upon neurosequential development throughout childhood and influence of unresolved trauma upon adult functioning and mental health
The treatment lends itself to filial therapy, attachment and relational health, impaired neurosequential development through to cortical modulation and beyond throughout adulthood.
healing interventions
Understanding the context of self-harm for women in prison
A participatory action research approach was used to engage with both the women in prison and the staff to understand the context, function and possible alternative to self-harm.
healing interventions