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Running head: CARE STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
Plan Development for Trauma-Informed Care
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CARE STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
Examining the condition of Alexa, it is evident that she is a victim of child neglect,
and her family members are unable to fulfill the basic needs of the child, which has resulted
in causing physical as well as psychological harm to Alexa (Johnson & Fisher, 2018).
Following are the two goals determined for the child:
i) Ensuring nutrition: Nutrition deprivation can lead to significant complications and
needs to be prevented.
ii) Building a sense of emotional and physical safety: this is crucial for ensuring
improvement in the child’s psychosocial growth and enable her to express
satisfaction with life (Slack et al., 2017).
To achieve the first goal determined for the positive health of Alexa, frequent
monitoring of the nutritional state and developmental status of the child is required.
Adequacy of relationship is required to increase the sense of security and help her to grow
and learn.
In context to the second goal, a strategy concerned with family and home-
environment assessment is required. Advocacy, assistance, and proper guidance
provisions for the parents needs to be ensured to help them understand Alexa’s
progression and needs (Barlow et al., 2016). Administration of actions that removes the
child from a trigger or unsafe situation will help Alexa to express emotional and physical
safety.
Strategies to Build Responsive Relationship with Alexa:
1. To build a therapeutic relationship with Alexa, consistent support, and being
available to the child needs to be ensured, which will increase her feeling of safety
and trust.
2. Improving parenting skills and building parental confidence.
3. Home maintenance assistance to ensure home as a safe place for Alexa.

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References
Johnson, R., & Fisher, H. L. (2018). Assessment of the psychometric properties of the
Graded Care Profile version 2 (GCP2) tool for measuring child neglect. Child &
Family Social Work, 23(3), 485-493.
Slack, K. S., Font, S., Maguire-Jack, K., & Berger, L. M. (2017). Predicting child protective
services (CPS) involvement among low-income US families with young children
receiving nutritional assistance. International journal of environmental research and
public health, 14(10), 1197.
Barlow, J., Horwath, J., Woodman, J., Turnell, A., Kennedy, H., Gorin, S., ... & Brandon, M.
(2016). Tackling child neglect: Research, policy and evidence-based practice. Jessica
Kingsley Publishers.