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
16: Sustaining Trauma-Responsive Practices
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Published:August 2024
R.J. Gillespie, MD, MHPE, FAAP, "Sustaining Trauma-Responsive 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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I’m sitting around a conference table with half a dozen of my colleagues at my clinic site, and we’re spending our lunch hour exchanging scripts for how we introduce our caregiver trauma assessment tool to our families.
I say: “I talk about how most of what we learn about being parents comes from how our parents modeled it to us. If that was a good experience, we want to think about how we capture those positive aspects and make sure that happens for our kids. If it wasn’t a good experience, we want to think about how we might do...