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Promoting better outcomes instead of "trauma-informed"?

What do you think about this concept?

Trauma informed = recovery oriented = prevention focused = patient centered. All the same. In general, things that promote good recovery outcomes also promote good trauma management. In my opinion, some of those other concepts are more concrete, than "trauma-informed," because everyone thinks they have enough "information," after a while.  So we could advocate for good recovery outcomes.

The one downside to this is that people look at admin outcomes like # of patients seen or clinical outcomes like symptom reduction. Recovery outcomes don't correlate with clinical outcomes - a person with high levels of symptoms can function quite well. Recovery outcomes include stuff like housing, job function, income levels, quality of life, social connection, having meaning and purpose.

One of the BRSS TACS webinars covers this. https://www.samhsa.gov/brss-tacs/webinars

What do you think?

Last edited by Jane Stevens
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