Trauma Informed Care: An Analysis of Narratives From Multiple Perspectives On Healing

This paper includes an extensive review of the literature starting with an exploration of 17 areas or therapeutic approaches to trauma healing. Following this, 11 interviews were conducted, and reviewed, with several people from around the globe who have had extensive experience working with trauma healing. Finally, the 17 areas of literature review and 11 interviews are integrated, analyzed, and discussed. This work was conducted in an attempt to find a partial solution and present supportive insights and practical implications for clinicians to help with a problem that many are faced with today —trauma healing. Seven practical themes are presented as outcomes of this work in support of the hypothesis. The hypothesis: There are common elements in a person’s healing journey from trauma that can set them forth towards positive transformation. These seven outcomes of the analysis are proposed as a set of criteria that can be used to build a therapeutic foundation from which a therapeutic plan can be formed. This researcher believes that building a strong therapeutic foundation through using these seven outcomes will increase the likelihood of positive outcome to the 17 therapies presented in the literature review. This is presented as a practical contribution in the Conclusions chapter. The outcomes that the reader will hopefully obtain from this research paper will be to: • Gain an understanding of prior art literature from the various fields regarding the approach to trauma healing. • Learn from narrative feedback from the clinicians and trauma experts. • Gain an opportunity to use the tools presented in the appendices to get started either on a self-healing journey, or for clinicians to work with helping people on their healing journey.

Author dc:creator

• Hughes, Calum

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Pulla, Siomonn

• College of interdisciplinary studies

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Identifier URI

https://doi.org/10.25316/ir-19739

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:null:10613/28114