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- Abstract
- The Evolution of Trauma-Informed Care
- Trauma-Informed Care in the Domestic Violence Context
- Method
- Selection of Publications
- Qualitative Content Analysis
- Results
- Cluster 1: Promoting Emotional Safety
- The physical environment of the organization is designed to minimize triggers
- Staff adopt a nonjudgmental approach about DV in all interactions with survivors
- The program develops and communicates policies clearly and safely
- Cluster 2: Restoring Choice and Control
- Staff foreground survivors’ way of telling their story
- Staff provide opportunities for survivors to shape the focus of their work
- Survivors have opportunities to influence program services
- Cluster 3: Facilitating Connection
- Staff invest in relationships with survivors
- Staff create opportunities for survivors to connect with each other
- Staff support survivors’ parenting relationships
- Staff support relationships between survivors and their community
- Cluster 4: Supporting Coping
- Staff promote an approach to coping that explicitly addresses the effects of domestic violence
- Staff support survivors in strengthening and developing strategies for coping
- Staff support a holistic culture of healing
- Cluster 5: Responding to Identity and Context
- The physical space is inclusive and welcoming to people of all backgrounds
- Staff are affirming of and responsive to multiple identities
- The organization is designed to represent the diversity of its clients
- Cluster 6: Building Strengths
- Staff recognize and value strengths
- Staff provide opportunities for survivors to develop leadership skills
- Discussion
- TIP Principles in the DV Context
- Cluster 1: Establishing emotional safety
- Cluster 2: Restoring choice and control
- Cluster 3: Facilitating connection
- Cluster 4: Supporting coping
- Cluster 5: Responding to identity and context
- Cluster 6: Building strengths
- The Scope of Trauma-Informed Practice: Critical Differences and Tensions
- Trauma
- Cultural competence
- Power
- Limitations and Future Research Directions
- Conclusions
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Abstract
Three out of 10 women and 1 out of 10 men in the United States experience violence at the hands of an intimate partner—often with devastating costs. In response, hundreds of residential and community-based organizations have sprung up to support survivors. Over the last decade, many of these organizations have joined other human service systems in adopting trauma-informed care (TIC), an approach to working with survivors that responds directly to the effects of trauma. Although there have been various efforts to describe TIC in domestic violence (DV) programs, there is a need...