What is needed for Trauma Informed Mental Health Services in Australia? Perspectives of clinicians and managers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Isobel ◽  
Allyson Wilson ◽  
Katherine Gill ◽  
Kathleen Schelling ◽  
Deborah Howe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Trauma Informed

Educators' Secondary Traumatic Stress, Children's Trauma, and the Need for Trauma Literacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAL A. LAWSON ◽  
JAMES C. CARINGI ◽  
RUTH GOTTFRIED ◽  
BRIAN E. BRIDE ◽  
STEPHEN P. HYDON
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Early Identification ◽  
Secondary Traumatic Stress ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Trauma Informed

In this essay, authors Lawson, Caringi, Gottfried, Bride, and Hydon introduce the concept of trauma literacy, connecting it to students' trauma and educators' secondary traumatic stress (STS). Interactions with traumatized students is one cause of STS; others derive from other traumatic encounters in schools and communities. Undesirable effects of STS start with professional disengagement and declining performance, include spill-over effects into educators' personal lives, and, ultimately, may cause them to leave the profession. The authors contend that alongside trauma-informed pedagogies and mental health services for students, mechanisms are needed for STS prevention, early identification, and rapid response. To benefit from and advance this dual framework, educators need a trauma-informed literacy that enables self-care, facilitates and safeguards interactions with trauma-impacted students and colleagues, and paves the way for expanded school improvement models.

Is trauma informed care possible in the current public mental health system?

2021 ◽  
pp. 103985622110286
Author(s):  
Dr Sophie Isobel
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health System ◽  
Mental Health System ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Public Mental Health System ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Trauma Informed Care ◽  
Trauma Informed

Objectives: As mental health services move towards implementing ‘Trauma-informed care’, there is a need to consider the challenges posed within services and systems. This paper raises some of the challenges associated with integrating TIC into the current public mental health system. . Conclusion: The lack of clarity about expectations of trauma-informed approaches causes difficulties for its integration into services, but the wider political context of mental health services is also of relevance. Transparent and ongoing debate is required about approaches to mental health care, to ensure the system meets the needs of those who require it, while questioning what other purposes it may be serving at social and political levels.

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