This framework is based on what the research on trauma intervention with children and particularly on trauma-informed care (TIC). However, based on personal understanding of trauma intervention in child population, the original TIC approach introduced by SAMHSA is modified.
I. Trauma and Children
While positive stressful experience contribute to children’s health since these mild stress events provides children opportunities to deal with obstacles by managing stress, control emotions and practice coping skills (Bloom, 2012), certain intensive traumatic events (i.e. physical abuse, school violence, and traumatic grief, etc.) happen in childhood could result in persistently negative impact on children, which might affect brain development and …show more content…
In the process of utilizing TIC, a safe and confidential environment should be ensured and the sense of safety should be aimed to promote. At the very beginning of the intervention, the practitioner should inform the client about the confidentiality, allow him or her to tell own preference about the place and setting requirements. This provides the client with opportunity to make decisions and take control, which can promote his or her physical and emotional comfort. Another way to promote the sense of safety is to utilize strength-based perspective. TIC requires the clinician to discover and take advantages of strengths, which is able to make the client realize that he or she is still functioning and useful (Hopper et al, 2010). Resources could be viewed a type of strength of the client. This is because stress happens when there is a real or potential loss in resources or being unable to gain sufficient resources as expected (Hobfoll, 1989; Hobfoll, 2002). It could be physical assets, such as a stable living environment with parents, personal characteristics, such as self-esteem, conditions that the client are concerned about such as being the top student in school, and energies such as knowledge, time and money that allow one to achieve other resources. For instance, the practitioner needs to examine relationship the client has with others, identifies which is risky or protective, and takes advantages of the protective one. If a child with family violence experience has close relationship with the peers in school, then peer support should be focused in the intervention plan (SAMHS, 2014). In fact, peer support is specifically significant and effective in designing and providing the treatment for children since it is easier to build trust, enhance collaboration and promote the recovery. Generally, the overall norm is to first maintain and utilize the current strengths and resources, and then make efforts to get additional
I. Trauma and Children
While positive stressful experience contribute to children’s health since these mild stress events provides children opportunities to deal with obstacles by managing stress, control emotions and practice coping skills (Bloom, 2012), certain intensive traumatic events (i.e. physical abuse, school violence, and traumatic grief, etc.) happen in childhood could result in persistently negative impact on children, which might affect brain development and …show more content…
In the process of utilizing TIC, a safe and confidential environment should be ensured and the sense of safety should be aimed to promote. At the very beginning of the intervention, the practitioner should inform the client about the confidentiality, allow him or her to tell own preference about the place and setting requirements. This provides the client with opportunity to make decisions and take control, which can promote his or her physical and emotional comfort. Another way to promote the sense of safety is to utilize strength-based perspective. TIC requires the clinician to discover and take advantages of strengths, which is able to make the client realize that he or she is still functioning and useful (Hopper et al, 2010). Resources could be viewed a type of strength of the client. This is because stress happens when there is a real or potential loss in resources or being unable to gain sufficient resources as expected (Hobfoll, 1989; Hobfoll, 2002). It could be physical assets, such as a stable living environment with parents, personal characteristics, such as self-esteem, conditions that the client are concerned about such as being the top student in school, and energies such as knowledge, time and money that allow one to achieve other resources. For instance, the practitioner needs to examine relationship the client has with others, identifies which is risky or protective, and takes advantages of the protective one. If a child with family violence experience has close relationship with the peers in school, then peer support should be focused in the intervention plan (SAMHS, 2014). In fact, peer support is specifically significant and effective in designing and providing the treatment for children since it is easier to build trust, enhance collaboration and promote the recovery. Generally, the overall norm is to first maintain and utilize the current strengths and resources, and then make efforts to get additional