Analyzing Trauma-Informed Care: Person-Centered, Strength & Recovery

This essay defines trauma-informed care as a framework that acknowledges and responds to the effects of trauma on both providers and consumers, emphasizing psychological, physical, and emotional safety. It elaborates on three core concepts: person-centered care, which prioritizes the trauma victim's perspective and treatment goals; strength-based care, which identifies and utilizes the patient's resilience and resources; and recovery-focused care, which relies on the nurse's expertise and hope to support the patient's return to normalcy. The essay provides examples for each concept, illustrating how these approaches can be applied in practice to enhance trauma care and support the patient's healing journey. The essay also contains references to support the arguments presented.

Concepts of Trauma-Informed Care
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Trauma Informed Care
Involves the set of framework and structure to identify and respond to
trauma effects to both the provider and the consumer.
•It highlights the psychological, physical and emotional safety to help
bring back the consent and sense of control.
•Trauma has different impacts on various people.
•Traumatic events are normally found in various forms.

Concepts of Trauma-Informed Care
• Person-centred,
• strength-based
• recovery-focused

Personal Centered Concept
• The treatment goals of the trauma victim are based on their words
and concentrate on the whole person
• This concept has no specific technique.
• It instills all the components of an organizational operation.
• The person is viewed as the control locus in a trauma care support.
• The choice of the individual is valued.
• The patient’s value, rights, preferences, and needs are highly
respected.

Example
• After an eating disorder, the victim explains how he feels and what
he needs to be done after which, the expertise takes action of
treatment.

strength based Concept,
• This concept detects the patient’s resilience ability when exposed to
various adversities and creates resources available to boost their
resilience.
• It recognizes and acts on the historical trauma among other issues
like biases, and stereotyping.
• Everyone has unique and essential resources to help them in the
achievement of their goals.
• Human beings have distinctive capacities for healing and health.
• Healing happens within the patient’s environment and personal
relationships.

Example
A person who has been undergoing slavery and humiliation the patient
is brought into a tranquil environment and given the freedom.

Recovery based Concept.
• The process includes expert skills from the nurse such as hope and
their perspectives on the service user.
• The nurse starts with hoping that the condition can be reinstated
back to normal.
• The patient’s recovery is then built on their talents, resources,
inherent values and strengths.
• It may include self-care, family support and the support from the
patient’s peers

Example
• A family member may volunteer to champion the victim’s path of
recovery. After undergoing depression a family member spends her
time with the victim, playing his best games and adventures. Where
the patient is undertaking medications the champion guilds him out.

References
• Alasmee, N., Cross, W., & McCauley, K. (2014). Australian College of
Mental Health Nurses 40th International Mental Health Nursing
Conference–Honouring the Past, Shaping the Future. International
Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 23(1), 1-45.
• Scott, A. L., Doughty, C., & Kahi, H. (2012). Peer Support Practice in
Aotearoa New Zealand