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Children and Youth Need Trauma-Informed Care More Than Ever [psychologytoday.com]

 

By Anton C. Bizzell, Photo: Unsplash, Psychology Today, January 26, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to take a toll on individuals and groups around the world, from frontline health care professionals to service workers to the elderly to entire families decimated by the virus. However, there is a large, traumatized cohort that requires more attention: our youth. How do we help young people cope with the upheaval in their lives due to the coronavirus, on top of the many other traumas they experience? This is a challenge we must address sooner rather than later with trauma-informed care.

According to the Center for Health Care Strategies, trauma-informed care (TIC) “shifts the focus from ‘What’s wrong with you?’ to ‘What happened to you?’” TIC enables caregivers to understand an individual’s entire life situation as a foundation to offer that person the most beneficial services. For many, it is the first time that someone else recognizes that they have suffered from trauma—or continue to do so.

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