What is Trauma-Informed Care?
Trauma-Informed Care was rolled out in the late 1990s in an effort to ensure providers of care take the effects of trauma experienced by their patients into account when diagnosing and treating them. This effort happened because scientists and doctors were realizing the impact of trauma, especially of multiple traumas on a person. Neuroimaging and other scientific research was uncovering how repetitive trauma can cause your brain, nervous system and body to malfunction or get stuck in a state of reactivity and inflammation. Trauma-Informed Care was supposed to change the often hierarchical dynamic in clinical service delivery to more of a partnered approach. Abuse steals the voice and freedom of the abused and leaves them feeling like an observer in their own life with no way to impact or lessen the horror they experience. Trauma-Informed Care was meant to give patient's their voice back and come along side them in diagnosing their challenges and creating a treatment plan. Wh