A Better word than trauma-informed?

Check out what Sandy Bloom said about trauma-informed: https://www.pacesconnection.com/...enda-tandfonline-com

I appreciate your question. I call it emotional intelligence.

I believe Philip Zimbardo's book, "The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how good people do evil", addresses both how institutional environments can affect people, as well as the "World View" that We look at "behavior" through. With the "medical model" of only looking at "dispositional" factors" [personal character flaws/ behaviorism], rather than a "public health model" that includes "Situational Forces" [like the evidence of the ACE study], we might judge people solely on their "character flaws" rather than "Trans-generational and Institutional factors" like Poverty, Community Violence, etc., such as an Epidemiologist noted in a 2000 "Grand Rounds" continuing medical education presentation I attended at [then] Dartmouth [now Geisel] medical school, noting: "52% of Detroit Metropolitan Area Schoolchildren met the [then] DSM-IV criteria for PTSD." More recently, similar numbers for Schoolchildren have been reported in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Atlanta.... Fortunately Juvenile court Judges, such as Steven Teske, have written about "how adolescents are neurologically wired to do stupid things", like commit a delinquent act but are not "Delinquent"... "even though they sometimes do remarkable things". (see Teske's 12/8/2015 JJIE article: "States Should Mandate School-justice Partnerships to End Violence Against Our Children"

How about Trauma Compassionate? There are lots of words that I disagree in the developing practice of how to address childhood acquired trauma. I haven't liked resilience, for example. And Trauma Informed is another one. My viewpoint has been guided by the work advanced by Dr. Heather Larkin at SUNY Albany. She has applied a Restorative Integral Support Model to ACE's with a 4 view quadrant. The 4th Quadrant is the Worldview Mr. Olcott refers to. By looking at where the trauma develops in the brain to how it manifests through behavioral expression and our cultural response to it, we should be able to develop a pathway for each individual trauma sufferer to find a pathway to healing. It's not an easy task from a world view, but if we look at an individual person view, we can start.

I concur, we need better words for this!  I see referral to 'TIC' as a trending phrase, much like 'evidence-based' was used as a cudgel for a few years prior.  I add to your choices these features: compassionate, effective and experienced care for the impact of traumatic life events.  Unwieldy, but more towards a more specific and meaningful designation. If the public knew more about the 4 common features of trauma, they'd be more inclined to understand  both the how and the why of their result, with less suffering and judgement.  That's why I include this information whenever I make a presentation about the Tapping training I do, as it is both a fabulous and efficient tool for clinical settings as well as for self-care.

I don't mind trauma informed, and when I need to make the difference, I hyphenate "in-formed."  I don't spend much time just educating people about trauma. I teach them how they can self-induce and self-regulate the natural mammalian mechanism that release stress and heals trauma.

Trauma compassionate assumes way too much. I think it would attract far less attention. 

I also don't work with the current notion of resilience, Patrick. Resilience seems more about a community having the resource available to react to a crisis rather than individuals having a robust nervous system that has more capacity in a crisis environment. I work on the nervous system aspect with people.

Robert Olcott posted:

I believe Philip Zimbardo's book, "The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how good people do evil", addresses both how institutional environments can affect people, as well as the "World View" that We look at "behavior" through. With the "medical model" of only looking at "dispositional" factors" [personal character flaws/ behaviorism], rather than a "public health model" that includes "Situational Forces" [like the evidence of the ACE study], we might judge people solely on their "character flaws" rather than "Trans-generational and Institutional factors" like Poverty, Community Violence, etc., such as an Epidemiologist noted in a 2000 "Grand Rounds" continuing medical education presentation I attended at [then] Dartmouth [now Geisel] medical school, noting: "52% of Detroit Metropolitan Area Schoolchildren met the [then] DSM-IV criteria for PTSD." More recently, similar numbers for Schoolchildren have been reported in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Atlanta.... Fortunately Juvenile court Judges, such as Steven Teske, have written about "how adolescents are neurologically wired to do stupid things", like commit a delinquent act but are not "Delinquent"... "even though they sometimes do remarkable things". (see Teske's 12/8/2015 JJIE article: "States Should Mandate School-justice Partnerships to End Violence Against Our Children"

It isn't healthy sane people who are hurting others. I think the appearanace of "good" can be deceiving. There are outliers, no doubt, but overall, hurt people, hurt people, and it describes to the essence of what we see in school children across the country. The environment of poverty alone is enough to cause traumatizing stress, let alone the precise ACE experiences or any of lifes other trauma's.

Corinna West posted:

This word possibly sets people up for failure. Like as if people can learn x y and z and they will "know enough about trauma," to stop doing it. It's a framing thing.

Yet the Milgram experiment and it's successors showed that all institutional settings will be coercive and dehumanizing. That people in charge of other people just default to force and cruelty. We can't eliminate it. We can only reduce it.

What about,

Trauma-reduction

Trauma-sensitive

Human-oriented

Safety supporting

Resilience promoting

ACES aware

Or other ways to describe this phenomenon? Share some ideas.

I teach TRE, which is officially Tension and Trauma RELEASING Exercises. Many modalities simply relieve. The body has a natural mechanism to release it from the inside out, so I use that term more than any. However, I'm not just educating people on what trauma is. That would be "trauma informed." I'm giving them a tool and training them how to use it to heal trauma. Once they've learned how to release, they are "trauma in-formed."

I guess I don't mind the term because there is a LONG way to go just to have any kind on national level of awareness of trauma, let alone recognizing the difference between relief and release of traumatic stress, and what tools do what. Just the basic understanding of the differences and similarities of stress and trauma, and how the body reacts to them, would be a huge step forward if we raised the awareness level. I'd be happy id just doctors got a hold of this for now!