Rebecca Smith, 28, endured a series of sexual assaults between ages 17 and 21. When she became pregnant for the first time at age 23, she told her OBGYN about her traumatic past. The reaction ...
Andrea Fiorillo, European Psychiatric Association (EPA), discusses the growing mental health crisis among young people in ...
Burnout is a growing crisis in health care: More than 50% of health care professionals report symptoms of it. Addressing the trauma they face at work can help. Halting burnout straddles the tension ...
“My daughter is so petrified; she’s terrified of needles. I don’t know where it came from.”—parent of an 11-year-old girl with cancer in Afraid of the Doctor: Every Parent’s Guide to Preventing and ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently updated the Rules of Participation to require that long-term care facilities provide trauma-informed care to residents. Failure by LTC staff to ...
Individuals can learn how to apply trauma-informed principles to benefit employees across their organization, thanks to a new micro-credential program from the University at Buffalo School of Social ...
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Design is more powerful than we often realize. Trauma-informed design is the intentional creation of spaces that help people feel safer and more in control, especially if they've experienced adversity ...
These are some of the most extreme examples of how trauma can affect the workplace. Workers may also experience trauma due to other kinds of issues at work, such as bias, harassment, and bullying. And ...
Trauma is the result of experiencing severe stress or violence committed against a person. It can disrupt the state of the psyche and lead to borderline or clinical conditions including neuroses and ...