Trauma-Informed Care In Mental Health Report

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University Of Melbourne

Added on 2020-02-19

Trauma-Informed Care In Mental Health Report

University Of Melbourne

Added on 2020-02-19

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TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE IN MENTAL HEALTH 2TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE IN MENTAL HEALTHIntroductionTrauma- informed care is essential in effective mental health nursing. Trauma informed care involves the recognizing, understanding, and reacting to trauma. The model of care emphasizes on the emotional, physical, and psychological safety of the patients and the nurses. Further, trauma informed care identifies the physical and emotional issues, disorders, and conditions related to trauma. In this case, nurses who apply this model recognize the many complexities of the effects of trauma and formulate strategies on how to handle them. Having this in mind, the essay will discuss on how trauma informed care guides the provision of mental health nursing.How trauma-informed care helps guide and inform the provision of mental care in Australia at a policy level and for consumers.Understanding TraumaTrauma-informed care has been adopted as an approach to help guide mental health practice in Australia both at a policy and consumer level. First, this approach provides an understanding of trauma to mental care providers and this is important in promoting mental recovery. Internationalevidence has revealed that a trauma-informed care approach provides awareness to mental healthabout the complexity of childhood, adolescent and adult trauma (Muskett 2014). A wealth of research findings shows that the implications of complex trauma are not only embedded at infancy but throughout an entire life cycle. Trauma-informed care recognizes that trauma is a result of several vulnerabilities and it affects multiple aspects of a victim’s life over a lifespan (Classenand Clark 2017).A mental health care facility with a trauma-informed care system is competent enough to recognize and attend to consumers who are traumatically affected by any

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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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