Hi Auror, I've been looking up trauma-informed care and I don't think this is what I met with the Crisis Team. The trauma-influenced approach and trauma-informed care share similar philosophies like "It's not what's wrong with you, but what happened to you," but what I met was a self-help manual for PTSD. I understand trauma-informed care being involved in workplaces and hospitals and other areas to sensitively treat people with PTSD, from my short time reading a few sites.
What I found was TIA was work done with the knowledge of psychotherapists and books to provide some help for people in crisis.
Trauma informed care sounds great looking at the sites but I don't think this is happening with the MH team. Yes, at the moment they acknowledge trauma as a reason why people can get into distress but they don't do anything to investigate it, or see the cause of trauma, or to help stop re-victimisation and re-traumatisation. The trauma-influenced-approach self-help manuals were about treating symptoms of PTSD like hyperarousal, flashbacks, dissociation etc
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