In this engaging, approachable book, a pediatrician and a psychologist walk step by step through the transformational process of creating a trauma-informed practice. They begin with essential concepts such as the debate over “ACE screening,” then share how to prepare an organization for change, assess risks to relational health, support caregivers, use resilience-based interventions, and finally how to sustain a trauma-responsive practice. Reflecting the authors’ call for interdisciplinary collaboration, the book is presented as a dialogue between two experts, describing how they collaborated on their own practice transformation—including both the pitfalls and the factors that made the process successful. Available for purchase at https://www.aap.org/The-Trauma-Informed-Pediatric-Practice-Paperback
3: Getting Your Organization Ready: Creating Compassionate Pediatric Practices
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Published:August 2024
Amy King, PhD, "Getting Your Organization Ready: Creating Compassionate Pediatric Practices", The Trauma-Informed Pediatric Practice: A Resilience-Based Roadmap to Foster Early Relational Health, R.J. Gillespie, MD, MHPE, FAAP, Amy King, PhD
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“What if we’re not ready?”
“What if our MAs, front office staff, or administration don’t understand what we’re looking for or why we’re doing this?”
“Have we given everyone at our organization tools to be aware of what trauma looks like and how it presents?”
My experience from training health care professionals is that knowing about trauma is different in practice from knowing what to do about trauma. Beginning to implement trauma-informed care (TIC) can be daunting, especially for the thoughtful clinician who values the information and wants to know how to respond thoughtfully. That was certainly the experience of...
