This is a cool research article where a guy went to a psych hospital and trained the staff and the patients together. They did a one hour talk on, "We're sorry you got sold the disease model or the bio bio bio model so hard. It's not really as scientifically supported as all that. There's other ways to look at this stuff that actually have stronger evidence."
After this one hour intervention, a year later, staff treated patients a lot nicer, and the patients had higher recovery rates.
What I find is that clinicians like trauma-informed care because it's the honorable way out. They can say, "We found out this new info so that we don't have to admit we've been so horribly wrong all along."
Like saying, "You still have this illness (that gets me paid), but it may have been caused by trauma instead."
Sometimes people do a lot lot better if you sweep away the BS first instead of piling good info on top of bad info.
Like, "Hey, maybe you weren't as sick as you were led to believe, maybe your life situation was misdiagnosed as a permanent illness and really it's not. Maybe all you need to do is build better community supports, maybe it's the community around you that's the problem and you are just the canary in the coal mine..." ETC.
I've always though trauma-informed care meant, "Now I know that it was trauma all along, so I didn't even need your "care." "