Trauma-Informed Supervision: Core Components and Unique Dynamics in Varied Practice Contexts Knight Carolyn
Survivors of trauma are disproportionately represented in agencies providing a broad range of behavioral, social, and mental health services. Practitioners in these settings must understand and be…
Specifikacia Trauma-Informed Supervision: Core Components and Unique Dynamics in Varied Practice Contexts Knight Carolyn
Survivors of trauma are disproportionately represented in agencies providing a broad range of behavioral, social, and mental health services. Practitioners in these settings must understand and be able to respond to survivors of trauma in ways that are empowering, normalize and validate their experiences and reactions, and minimize the risk of retraumatization. Practitioners also will be indirectly traumatized as a result of their work with trauma survivors.Practitioners' ability to help clients with histories of trauma depends upon clinical supervision that is trauma-informed. The trauma-informed supervisor has the dual responsibility of enhancing supervisees' skills as trauma-informed practitioners and helping them manage the impact their work has on them.Nevertheless, many clinical supervisors only have limited knowledge and training in trauma