Bringing trauma-informed practice to domestic violence programs: A qualitative analysis of current approaches.

2015 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
pp. 586-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Wilson ◽  
Jenny E. Fauci ◽  
Lisa A. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Trauma Informed Practice

scholarly journals Five years after Carmody: practitioners’ views of changes, challenges and research in child protection

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (03) ◽  
pp. 146-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ines Zuchowski
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Trauma Informed Practice ◽  
Difficult Area

AbstractChild protection work is a complex and difficult area of practice, one that is closely scrutinised and criticised, and impacts on the lives of many children. In Australia, child protection systems are overloaded, and increasing numbers of children and families receive child protection interventions each year. This study explored the views of North Queensland practitioners who work in the child protection field, examining changes and challenges in this field of practice, and their suggestions for the future research that is needed in child protection. The study took place 5 years after the 2013 Queensland Carmody inquiry into child protection intervention, which recommended sweeping changes to the child protection system. Twenty-two practitioners participated in this study. Respondents reported an increase in the complexity of cases, a gap in legislation change/practice frameworks and practice, and the application of trauma-informed practice. They highlighted the intersection of child protection, domestic violence and family law and observed that women and children continue to be exposed to violence because of Family Law Court orders. Respondents identified a number of areas where research is needed.

Qualitative experiences of Australian mental health staff with students exposed to domestic violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 014303432199415
Author(s):  
Emily Berger ◽  
Lauren Meltzer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
School Mental Health ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Mental Health Staff ◽  
School Structures ◽  
Exposure To Domestic Violence ◽  
Health Promotion In Schools ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Trauma Informed Practice

The prevalence of domestic violence is concerning due to its debilitating impact on the psychological, social and academic functioning of children. This study explored the experiences, strengths and challenges of school mental health staff in relation to students exposed to domestic violence. Interviews with 10 school wellbeing staff working in Victoria, Australia, showed that these staff felt confronted and distressed, and were unsure of their role in managing the complexities associated with students’ exposure to domestic violence. Staff reported the need for educators, students and parents to be educated on domestic violence, and for improved school structures and policies that encourage staff consultation and self-care following students’ disclosures of domestic violence. The results of this study are discussed within the context of trauma-informed practice and multi-tiered mental health promotion in schools.

Analysis of Shelter Utilization by Victims of Domestic Violence Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis: Final Technical Report

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine C. George ◽  
Susan F. Grossman ◽  
Marta Lundy ◽  
Cesraea Rumpf ◽  
Sonya Crabtree-Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Technical Report

Safety, Collaboration, and Empowerment

Archivaria ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 38-73
Author(s):  
Kirsten Wright ◽  
Nicola Laurent
Keyword(s):  
Practice Theory ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Archival Practice ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Radical Empathy ◽  
The People ◽  
Individual Memory ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Trauma Informed Practice ◽  
Past Wrongs

In order to undertake liberatory memory work, engage effectively with communities and individuals, and centre people rather than records in their work, archival organizations must be aware of trauma and its effects. This article introduces the concept of trauma-informed practice to archives and other memory organizations. Trauma-informed practice is a strengths-based approach for organizations that acknowledges the pervasiveness of trauma and the risk and potential for people to be retraumatized through engagement with organizations such as archives and seeks to minimize triggers and negative interactions. It provides a framework of safety and offers a model of collaboration and empowerment that recognizes and centres the expertise of the individuals and communities documented within the records held in archives. Traumainformed practice also provides a way for archivists to practically implement many of the ideas discussed in the literature, including liberatory memory work, radical empathy, and participatory co-design. This article proposes several areas where a trauma-informed approach may be useful in archives and may lead to trauma-informed archival practice that provides better outcomes for all: users, staff, and memory organizations in general. Applying trauma-informed archival practice is multidimensional. It requires the comprehensive review of archival practice, theory, and processes and the consideration of the specific needs of individual memory organizations and the people who interact with them. Each organization should implement trauma-informed practice in the way that will achieve outcomes appropriate for its own context. These out comes can include recognizing and acknowledging past wrongs, ensuring safety for archives users and staff, empowering communities documented in archives, and using archives for justice and healing.

A Qualitative Analysis of How Physicians with Expertise in Domestic Violence Approach the Identification of Victims

1999 ◽  
Vol 131 (8) ◽  
pp. 578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Gerbert ◽  
Nona Caspers ◽  
Amy Bronstone ◽  
James Moe ◽  
Priscilla Abercrombie
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Analysis

scholarly journals The Limits of Resilience and the Need for Resistance: Articulating the Role of Music Therapy With Young People Within a Shifting Trauma Paradigm

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elly Scrine
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Trauma Informed Practice ◽  
A Site

A broad sociocultural perspective defines trauma as the result of an event, a series of events, or a set of circumstances that is experienced as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting impacts on an individual’s physical, social, emotional, or spiritual wellbeing. Contexts and practices that aim to be “trauma-informed” strive to attend to the complex impacts of trauma, integrating knowledge into policies and practices, and providing a sanctuary from harm. However, there is a body of critical and decolonial scholarship that challenges the ways in which “trauma-informed” practice prioritizes individualized interventions, reinscribes colonial power relations through its conceptualizations of safety, and obscures the role of systemic injustices. Within music therapy trauma scholarship, research has thus far pointed to the affordances of music in ameliorating symptoms of trauma, bypassing unavailable cognitive processes, and working from a strengths-based orientation. In critiquing the tendency of the dominant trauma paradigm to assign vulnerability and reinforce the individual’s responsibility to develop resilience through adversity, this conceptual analysis outlines potential alternatives within music therapy. Drawing on a case example from a research project with young people in school, I elucidate the ways in which music therapy can respond to power relations as they occur within and beyond “trauma-informed” spaces. I highlight two overarching potentials for music therapy within a shifting trauma paradigm: (1) as a site in which to reframe perceived risk by fostering young people’s resistance and building their political agency and (2) in challenging the assumption of “safe spaces” and instead moving toward practices of “structuring safety.”

scholarly journals Evaluación cualitativa de un programa de intervención psicológica con hombres violentos dentro de la pareja

2011 ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Santiago Boira Sarto ◽  
Yolanda López del Hoyo ◽  
Lucía Tomás Aragonés ◽  
Ana Rosa Gaspar
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Therapeutic Alliance ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Prison Sentence ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Assessment Strategies ◽  
The Impact

La tardía implantación en España de programas de intervención con hombres maltratadores enfatiza la necesidad de desarrollar investigaciones que maximicen la eficacia de los tratamientos. Hasta el momento, han sido escasos los estudios publicados que evalúen las variables relacionadas con la permanencia o el abandono del tratamiento y su eficacia, y todavía más escasos los que han estudiado este tema desde un punto de vista cualitativo. El objetivo del estudio es identificar aspectos clave en los programas de intervención que puedan mejorar la eficacia de los tratamientos para hombres condenados por un delito de violencia de género a los que se les ha suspendido o sustituido la ejecución de la pena de prisión por la realización del programa terapéutico. Para ello se ha analizado cualitativamente la información obtenida en dos grupos de discusión formados por los psicólogos que aplicaron el programa y distribuidos según el tipo de terapia, individual o grupal.Los resultados reflejan la conveniencia de considerar la especificidad de este contexto de intervención en el diseño de los programas y en la evaluación. Deberán mejorarse las estrategias que aumenten la motivación, la alianza terapéutica y la adherencia de los hombres al tratamiento. Además habrá que ampliar las estrategias de evaluación para que ofrezcan una información cualitativamente diferente y permitan una valoración global del impacto del tratamiento y el riesgo para la víctima.The late implementation in Spain of intervention programmes for male abusers stresses the need to carry out research that can maximise the effectiveness of such treatment. Up till now, very few studies have been published that assess the variables relating to the continuation or abandonment of the treatment and its efficiency, and there are even fewer studies that examine this subject from a qualitative standpoint. The object of the study is to identify key aspects in the intervention programmes that can enhance the efficiency of the treatment offered to men that have been convicted for a crime involving domestic violence, and who have had their prison sentence suspended or commuted to a programme entailing therapy. With this aim in mind, a qualitative analysis is conducted of the data obtained in two discussion groups formed by psychologists who applied the programme and who are distributed in accordance with the type of therapy �individual or group-oriented� they administered.The findings reflect the convenience of considering the specifics of this context of intervention in the design of such programmes, along with their assessment. Strategies should be improved to enhance motivation, and also to strengthen the therapeutic alliance and ensure that the men stick to the treatment. We will also have to broaden our assessment strategies so that they offer data that is qualitatively different and can enable an overall assessment to be made of the impact of the treatment and the risk to the victim.

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