Trauma Influenced Approach?

[sandalwood]

I was wondering if anyone was familiar with a programme that is new to me, which is the Trauma Influenced Approach therapy that the Crisis Team were trying to do with me the last time I was with them? I hear they are implementing this type of therapy in wards too, where I live, at least.

What are your thoughts on this? Did you find it helpful?

I was given 7 booklets to read and look at, like "Self soothing" "Grounding" and "Food and diet" etc. I was familiar with a lot of these techniques from my old therapy sessions.

[Auror.]

As I am not in your country, I am wondering if you are asking in general about like, trauma informed care, or are you talking about something else specific? Was unsure if this was a very specific thing you were referring to or not.

[sandalwood]

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

[Auror.]

Ah, totally fair. Just wasn't sure if it was a different term for the same thing or something else entirely. Given it's something else entirely, it sounds like it must be specific to your country and hopefully someone else has had more experience and knowledge of it.