TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE IN MENTAL HEALTH 3overwhelming experiences. With trauma-informed care, longstanding trauma can be treated and its adverse effects intercepted. This system helps to coordinate and integrate recovery-oriented services with other elements of mental-health care when delivering to trauma survivors. A better understanding of trauma dynamics that are prevalent in consumers helps the providers of mental health care to design systems that accommodate the vulnerabilities of trauma survivors (Huckashorn and Lebel 2013).Reducing re-traumatizationAdditionally, trauma-informed care strives to do no harm by avoiding re-victimizing or re-traumatizing consumers in mental-health. Instead, survivors are taken as unique people who haveundergone very difficult situations and managed them to their level best. Trauma-informed care acknowledges that receiving mental health care can be traumatic to consumers. Undergoing involuntary hospital admissions, being scheduled, coercion, force, restraint practices and seclusion, mistreatment by staff can all constitute primary trauma while receiving or accessing mental health services (Isobel and Edwards 2017). Integrating a trauma-informed care approach to mental health services helps in reducing such cases of re-traumatization and re-victimization of consumers. It fosters power sharing and collaboration between the staff and consumers and this gives trauma survivors some sense of control (Wilson, Hutchinson and Hurley 2017). This approach helps to ensure that mental health services are not only designed to eradicate symptomsof emotional, sexual or physical abuse, but encourages staff to be sensitive and do no further harm to consumers. It is a model characterized by safety and it emphasizes on skill acquisition and strength-building rather than the exclusive management of symptoms (LeBel and Kelly 2014).

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