Trauma Informed Care: Promise and Peril Workshop

The Centre of Excellence for Equity for Higher Education's Live, Learn, Grow program presents Dr Tamara Blakemore's Trauma Informed Care: Promise and Peril workshop.

Recent media focus on the institutional abuse of children and young people has brought the occurrence and outcomes of trauma into our living rooms and across our breakfast tables like never before. Evidence shows childhood trauma can have devastating impacts leading it to be described as the most profound public health crisis facing the western world today.

This presentation is a primer on the potential impact of childhood trauma and how a trauma informed approach can strengthen our practice with survivors across the lifespan and across contexts. At its core, trauma informed care stresses awareness of the occurrence of trauma, and recognition of the impact this can have on individual and collective wellbeing, both in the short and long term. Trauma informed care can help us make sense of what we see in our classrooms and courtrooms, it promotes practice that is sensitive to the experience of trauma by shifting the  conversation from “what’s wrong with you?” to “what happened to you?”

But as this presentation will also explore – is being trauma informed enough? Are there potential risks of practitioners, organisations and institutions uncritically adopting a trauma informed care approach? Highlighting the promise, potential, paradox and perils of trauma informed care this presentation invites professionals to join the conversation, form new connections and explore promising practice across the challenge and opportunity of working with survivors of childhood trauma.

The workshop will be followed by a light lunch.

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Event Information

• Date:  This event was held on Thursday 17 November 2016
• Location: Basden Theatre