Guiding Lights: The Five Principles of Trauma-Informed Care

Trauma-informed care represents a paradigm shift in healthcare delivery. This approach emphasizes understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma. Five core principles guide the implementation of trauma-informed care. Each principle supports individuals who have experienced trauma, providing a compassionate, sensitive framework that promotes healing and recovery.


Principle 1: Safety

The first principle of trauma-informed care is safety. Health and service providers must strive to create a safe environment where individuals feel physically and emotionally secure. A sense of safety is foundational, as it allows for building trust. This includes both the tangible aspects of safety, such as secure facilities, and the intangible aspects, such as respectful interactions and clear communication.


Principle 2: Trustworthiness and Transparency

The second principle, trustworthiness and transparency, is about fostering trust through transparent, consistent, and reliable interactions. Building trustworthiness involves ensuring consistency in practice and maintaining clear, open communication with those receiving care. Providers must ensure that their actions and decisions are clear and that their operations and decisions are transparent.


Principle 3: Peer Support

Peer support is the third principle of trauma-informed care. It involves integrating peer support and mutual self-help into the healing process, capitalizing on the shared identification and empathy from similar experiences. These peer relationships can foster trust, promote engagement, and model recovery and healing.


Principle 4: Collaboration and Mutuality

The fourth principle, collaboration and mutuality, emphasizes the importance of leveling power differences between staff and clients and among administrative staff. True collaboration requires shared decision-making and partnership, promoting a team approach that values and appreciates the input and contributions of all involved. Everyone has a role to play in the healing process.


Principle 5: Empowerment, Voice, and Choice

The fifth principle of trauma-informed care is empowerment, voice, and choice. This principle focuses on strengthening the abilities of individuals to recognize their strengths and recovery capabilities. It involves ensuring that their voices are heard and that they have a choice in decisions that affect their care. This focus on empowerment helps individuals regain control over their lives and health.


The Power of Trauma-Informed Care

Trauma-informed care can transform the way healthcare services are provided. By prioritizing safety, trust, peer support, collaboration, and empowerment, trauma-informed care acknowledges the strength of survivors and supports them on their path to recovery. By implementing these five principles, providers can create a compassionate and effective care environment that considers the pervasive impact of trauma. This approach is more than a set of guidelines – it is a profound shift in perspective that recognizes the need for understanding, empathy, and respect in the healing process.

Grouport Offers Trauma Group Therapy and DBT Skills Group Online

Grouport Therapy provides online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) groups to assist individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and trauma. Our online group therapy sessions teach members how to integrate CBT techniques into their daily lives. Incorporating these skill sets enables them to recognize triggers, counteract negative thought patterns, and adopt more positive behaviors to recover from and manage their symptoms. In addition to CBT, our PTSD treatment utilizes prolonged exposure therapy (PE), cognitive processing therapy (CPT), and stress inoculation training (SIT) in a group setting.

Our licensed Therapist leads weekly group sessions conducted remotely in the comfort of members' homes. According to participant feedback, 70% experienced significant improvements within 8 weeks.

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Due to licensing restrictions, our online group therapy sessions are for Florida, New York, and New Jersey residents. If you are not a resident of either state, consider our dialectical behavior therapy skills group. It is a therapist-instructor-led online group that will teach you strategic new skills to replace behaviors and emotions causing friction in your daily life and relationships.

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