SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach

dc.contributor.authorSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-12T18:53:02Z
dc.date.available2014-12-12T18:53:02Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this paper is to develop a working concept of trauma and a trauma-informed approach and to develop a shared understanding of these concepts that would be acceptable and appropriate across an array of service systems and stakeholder groups. SAMHSA puts forth a framework for the behavioral health specialty sectors, that can be adapted to other sectors such as child welfare, education, criminal and juvenile justice, primary health care, the military and other settings that have the potential to ease or exacerbate an individual’s capacity to cope with traumatic experiences. In fact, many people with behavioral health problems receive treatment and services in these non-specialty behavioral health systems. SAMHSA intends this framework be relevant to its federal partners and their state and local system counterparts and to practitioners, researchers, and trauma survivors, families and communities. The desired goal is to build a framework that helps systems “talk” to each other, to understand better the connections between trauma and behavioral health issues, and to guide systems to become trauma-informed.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach. HHS Publication No. (SMA) 14-4884. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://ncsacw.samhsa.gov/userfiles/files/SAMHSA_Trauma.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/1971
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrationen_US
dc.subjecttrauma informed treatmenten_US
dc.subjecttraumaen_US
dc.subjectinterventionen_US
dc.subjectbehavioral healthen_US
dc.subjectresearchen_US
dc.titleSAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approachen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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