Over the past 20 years, trauma-informed approaches have become increasingly popular as a means for reducing the negative impact of childhood adversities and supporting child and adult mental health outcomes.
These approaches are informed by a set of principles that recognise that experiences of trauma are prevalent and can negatively impact the daily functioning of many individuals.
However, evidence suggests there is inconsistent implementation of these principles that has led to variability in practice. There is also little evidence showing that trauma-informed care improves access to therapeutic interventions or better outcomes.
Despite this, children’s services departments and a wide range of agencies that have contact with disadvantaged and vulnerable families have trained their workforce in trauma-informed practice techniques, with some areas rolling out training across all local authority employees.
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