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Trauma Recovery (stage 3) and Trauma-Informed Care Training

In this post, we explore the final stage of the Trauma Recovery Process and outline the Trauma-Informed Care Training required to support children and young people through this stage.

Stage Three of the Trauma Recovery Process is Reconnection and Integration

This final stage of trauma recovery focuses on the young person’s reinvention of the self and the establishment of a bright hopeful future in which trauma no longer has power over them.

Judith Lewis Herman reminds us of the challenge we face at this stage:

“Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in the environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the task of early adulthood — establishing independence and intimacy — burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and in memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships. She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.”

(from Trauma and Recovery, Judith Lewis Herman)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1554406334458{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]It is now the role of the carer to focus on:

• Decreasing shame and alienation
• Developing a greater capacity for healthy attachment
• Taking up personal and professional goals that reflect post-traumatic meaning making
• Overcoming fears of normal life
• Healthy challenge and change
• Building confidence with intimacy

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•  The 3 Stages of Recovery Blog
•  Understanding Trauma e-learning
•  Understanding Trauma face-to-face course
•  Secure Base Caregiving e-learning
•  Therapeutic Fostering Training Suite

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We can do this by using a scaffolding approach with young people, which involves:

1. Supporting them to map out their options (the tool above is an example of how to do this)
2. Pre-planning around how they will meet the challenges that arise.

As their life becomes reconsolidated around a healthy present and a healed integrated self, the trauma feels farther away and is no longer a daily focus.

Our Trauma-Informed Care Training equips Foster Carers to support their young people through each stage of their recovery journey.

You can read about Stage 1  HERE

You can read about Stage 2 HERE

Next steps – Your Trauma-Informed Training

We have created a suite of training for organisations that are developing an agency-wide Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP). TIP offers frameworks that are grounded in an understanding of trauma, whilst seeking to promote healing and the building of resilience.

Our suite of training is therefore mapped against Judith Herman’s 3-stage model of Trauma Recovery:

Stage 1: Safety and Stabilisation

Stage 2: Integration

Stage 3: Reconnection and Adaptation

All of this is covered in our Therapeutic Fostering training program, full details of which can be found HERE, or contact Tori on admin@socialcaretrainingsolutions.com to discuss how it can work for your teams.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]