Why Trauma-Informed?
““Trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.””
TRAUMA IS PERVASIVE.
A recent article in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis highlighted a National Center for PTSD statistic: Within the general public, 60 percent of men and 50 percent of women experience at least one traumatic event in their lifetimes.
IT’S MORE THAN WHAT YOU THINK IT IS.
SAMHSA identifies several types of trauma, including:
Natural or human-caused traumas (tornadoes, earthquakes, train derailment, terrorism)
Individual trauma (mugging, rape, physical attack, work-related physical injury)
Group trauma (first responders, military service members in the same unit)
Community and cultural trauma (school shootings, historic disenfranchisement)
Developmental/early childhood trauma
Political terror and war
