Sweeney, AC; Filson, B; Kennedy, A; Collinson, L; Gillard, S
(2018)
A paradigm shift: relationships in trauma-informed mental health services.
BJPsych Advances, 24 (5).
pp. 319-333.
ISSN 2056-4678
https://doi.org/10.1192/bja.2018.29
SGUL Authors: Gillard, Steven George Sweeney, Angela Claire
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Abstract
Trauma-informed approaches emerged partly in response to research demonstrating that trauma is widespread across society, that it is highly correlated with mental health and that this is a costly public health issue. The fundamental shift in providing support using a trauma-informed approach is to move from thinking ‘What is wrong with you?’ to considering ‘What happened to you?’. This article, authored by trauma survivors and service providers, describes trauma-informed approaches to mental healthcare, why they are needed and how barriers can be overcome so that they can be implemented as an organisational change process. It also describes how past trauma can be understood as the cause of mental distress for many service users, how service users can be retraumatised by ‘trauma-uninformed’ staff and how staff can experience vicariously the service user's trauma and can themselves be traumatised by practices such as restraint and seclusion. Trauma-informed mental healthcare offers opportunities to improve service users' experiences, improve working environments for staff, increase job satisfaction and reduce stress levels by improving the relationships between staff and patients through greater understanding, respect and trust.
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Additional Information: | COPYRIGHT: © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2018 This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work. | ||||||||
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: | Academic Structure > Population Health Research Institute (INPH) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | BJPsych Advances | ||||||||
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URI: | https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/109838 | ||||||||
Publisher's version: | https://doi.org/10.1192/bja.2018.29 |
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