Trauma-informed care is in the details. It assumes people are people. And people experience trauma. Trauma informed care or TIC assumes that every person may have a history of trauma, so steps are ...

Trauma has emerged as an important public health concern because it has long-term adverse effects upon physical and mental health. Trauma contributes to chronic health and behavioral health conditions ...

Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) addresses the mental health needs of children, adolescents, and families suffering from the destructive effects of early trauma. The treatment is ...

The Center on Trauma and Adversity, led by faculty co-chairs Drs. Jennifer King and Megan Holmes, has developed a Graduate Certificate in Trauma-Informed Practice. The certificate is intended to ...

When people talk about trauma they often think of crisis, therapy or medical intervention, not university education. But the truth is trauma walks into our classrooms every day. Some students carry ...

What is trauma-informed design, and why is it important? Trauma-informed design is about integrating the principles of trauma-informed care into design with the goal of creating physical spaces that ...

A single sentence from a faculty mentor cut deeper than I expected—because it wasn’t the first time my voice had been questioned. I spent decades believing I was not good enough to become a writer.

Intergenerational trauma occurs when multiple generations of a family feel the effects of past traumatic events. These effects can be emotional or physical. Traumatic events can influence a person’s ...

Generational trauma occurs when parents unintentionally pass their trauma down to their kids. Generational trauma can affect multiple generations over the course of hundreds of years. Learning to ...