Socio-Cultural Context Archives

Embarking on Your Trauma-Informed Journey

Tips & Insights for Organizations

In this CARE4YOU 2024 session, Kathleen Gorman explores trauma-informed practice and shares key considerations for organizations embarking on a trauma-informed journey.

June 2024

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Contributing Factors

Identifying Work-Related Stress

This model can help you to identify sources of work-related stress that may lead to burnout, secondary traumatic stress, empathic strain, or moral distress.

February 2023

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The Deepest Well

Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity

In this book, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explores the science behind adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and offers guidance on disrupting this cycle to help children, families, and adults live healthier, happier lives.

December 2021

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Race and Culture Have Everything to Do With It

Intersections of Secondary Traumatic Stress with Racism, Historical Trauma, and other Systems of Oppression

In this CARE4YOU 2021 session, Sandra Chase, Alison Hendricks, and Carmen Rosa Noroña explore how secondary traumatic stress intersects with culture, racism, historical trauma, and other systems of oppression.

June 2021

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What Happened to You?

Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

In this book, Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey share scientific and emotional insights to better understand people, behavior, and ourselves.

April 2021

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Relationship-Centered Care is Better Care

The Importance of Incorporating Cultural Humility in Our Work

We know that a one-size-fits-all approach to care is ineffective but becoming culturally competent can feel like an impossible task. In this CARE4YOU 2020 session, Donna Shanor explores how culture can influence experiences of trauma.

June 2020

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The Ripple Effect of Resiliency

Strategies for Fostering Resiliency with Indigenous Children

In this book, Monique Grey Smith offers resources for those working with Indigenous children and families.

January 2020

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My Grandmother’s Hands

Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

In this book, Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

September 2017

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Childhood Disrupted

How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal

In this book, Donna Jackson Nakazawa explores how the emotional trauma suffered by children shapes the emotional lives of adults, physical health, longevity, and overall wellbeing.

June 2016

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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Close Encounters With Addiction

In this book, Dr. Gabor Maté shares first-person accounts, case studies, and research to counter the prevailing notions of addiction as either a genetic disease or an individual moral failure.

January 2009

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