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
Appendix F: Sample Caregiver Trauma Survey and Cover Letter
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Published:August 2024
"Sample Caregiver Trauma Survey and Cover Letter", 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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This is the tool that we have been using in The Children’s Clinic to assess caregiver trauma, which we started doing in 2013. Although this tool includes the ACE questions—and we’ve covered all the controversies to this approach—it is included only for illustrative purposes. You can accomplish the same goals of approaching trauma in a caregiver by asking open-ended questions about their experiences from their childhood, such as how they were raised, what they’d like to repeat or have happen for their own children, and what they’d like to avoid. If you develop a tool for surveying caregivers about their...
