Child Welfare Caseworker and Trainer Perspectives on Initial Implementation of a Trauma-Informed Practice Approach

Author(s):  
Stacy Dunkerley ◽  
Becci A. Akin ◽  
Jody Brook ◽  
Kim Bruns
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerel M. Ezell ◽  
Margaret Richardson ◽  
Samira Salari ◽  
James A. Henry

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Taylor ◽  
Claire Battis ◽  
Sarah Carnochan ◽  
Colleen Henry ◽  
Margaret Balk ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (02) ◽  
pp. 81-83
Author(s):  
Cindy Hui Mei Ng-Tay ◽  
Joyce Teo ◽  
Yi Ying Ng

AbstractIn view of the rise in child abuse in Singapore, our Family Service Centre developed a child welfare practice model to guide and anchor our practitioners in trauma-informed approaches. This practice model was developed over two years through literature reviews and qualitative interviews with practitioners. Three aspects of the practice model were found to be key in ensuring practitioners were trauma-informed in their practices, these being: the principles and values related to trauma-informed practice; reflection by practitioners on their attachment history and self; and the assessment of caregivers’ characteristics. Despite this practice model being largely beneficial for practitioners in our agency, implementation in the local context gives rise to certain challenges due to differences in beliefs about disciplining children.


2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen A. Moore ◽  
Tegan Lesperance ◽  
Colleen Clark

2021 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 105296
Author(s):  
Saijun Zhang ◽  
Austin Conner ◽  
Younghee Lim ◽  
Tess Lefmann

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (S2) ◽  
pp. 36-36
Author(s):  
Lyndra Bills ◽  
Amy Herschell ◽  
Shari Hutchison

Archivaria ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 38-73
Author(s):  
Kirsten Wright ◽  
Nicola Laurent

In order to undertake liberatory memory work, engage effectively with communities and individuals, and centre people rather than records in their work, archival organizations must be aware of trauma and its effects. This article introduces the concept of trauma-informed practice to archives and other memory organizations. Trauma-informed practice is a strengths-based approach for organizations that acknowledges the pervasiveness of trauma and the risk and potential for people to be retraumatized through engagement with organizations such as archives and seeks to minimize triggers and negative interactions. It provides a framework of safety and offers a model of collaboration and empowerment that recognizes and centres the expertise of the individuals and communities documented within the records held in archives. Traumainformed practice also provides a way for archivists to practically implement many of the ideas discussed in the literature, including liberatory memory work, radical empathy, and participatory co-design. This article proposes several areas where a trauma-informed approach may be useful in archives and may lead to trauma-informed archival practice that provides better outcomes for all: users, staff, and memory organizations in general. Applying trauma-informed archival practice is multidimensional. It requires the comprehensive review of archival practice, theory, and processes and the consideration of the specific needs of individual memory organizations and the people who interact with them. Each organization should implement trauma-informed practice in the way that will achieve outcomes appropriate for its own context. These out comes can include recognizing and acknowledging past wrongs, ensuring safety for archives users and staff, empowering communities documented in archives, and using archives for justice and healing.


Author(s):  
Adrienne Whitt-Woosley ◽  
Jessica Eslinger ◽  
Ginny Sprang

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