Corinna West posted:This word possibly sets people up for failure. Like as if people can learn x y and z and they will "know enough about trauma," to stop doing it. It's a framing thing.
Yet the Milgram experiment and it's successors showed that all institutional settings will be coercive and dehumanizing. That people in charge of other people just default to force and cruelty. We can't eliminate it. We can only reduce it.
What about,
Trauma-reduction
Trauma-sensitive
Human-oriented
Safety supporting
Resilience promoting
ACES aware
Or other ways to describe this phenomenon? Share some ideas.
I teach TRE, which is officially Tension and Trauma RELEASING Exercises. Many modalities simply relieve. The body has a natural mechanism to release it from the inside out, so I use that term more than any. However, I'm not just educating people on what trauma is. That would be "trauma informed." I'm giving them a tool and training them how to use it to heal trauma. Once they've learned how to release, they are "trauma in-formed."
I guess I don't mind the term because there is a LONG way to go just to have any kind on national level of awareness of trauma, let alone recognizing the difference between relief and release of traumatic stress, and what tools do what. Just the basic understanding of the differences and similarities of stress and trauma, and how the body reacts to them, would be a huge step forward if we raised the awareness level. I'd be happy id just doctors got a hold of this for now!