What is trauma-informed practice?

Trauma-informed approaches are based on recognition and comprehensive understanding of the widespread prevalence and effects of trauma. This leads to a fundamental paradigm shift from thinking ‘what is wrong with you?’ to considering ‘what happened to you?’.

Rather than being a specific service or set of rules, trauma-informed approaches are a process of organisational change aiming to create environments and relationships that promote recovery and prevent retraumatisation.