A Systematic Review and Synthesis of Trauma-Informed Care Within Outpatient and Counseling Health Settings for Young People

There is growing consensus that outpatient health services for young people (aged 12–25 years) need to deliver trauma-informed care to ameliorate the effects of trauma, offer safe treatments, and avoid retraumatization. Trauma-informed care has become a familiar term for many professionals; however,...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Child Maltreatment 2021-08, Vol.26 (3), p.313-324
Main Authors: Bendall, Sarah, Eastwood, Oliver, Cox, Georgina, Farrelly-Rosch, Anna, Nicoll, Helen, Peters, Wilma, Bailey, Alan P., McGorry, Patrick D., Scanlan, Faye
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Caregivers
Clinical assessment
Clinical governance
Content analysis
Counseling
Families & family life
Gender sensitivity
Governance
Health services
Interagency collaboration
Interorganizational networks
Leadership
Medical screening
Psychoeducational treatment
Psychological assessment
Systematic review
Tests
Trauma
Treatment methods
Young Adults
Youth
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:There is growing consensus that outpatient health services for young people (aged 12–25 years) need to deliver trauma-informed care to ameliorate the effects of trauma, offer safe treatments, and avoid retraumatization. Trauma-informed care has become a familiar term for many professionals; however, its operating definition lacks clarity. MEDLINE, Embase, and PsycINFO were systematically searched to clarify what trauma-informed care is, and what it should achieve in these settings. We reviewed 3,381 unique records, of which 13 met criteria for inclusion. Content analysis identified 10 components of trauma-informed care as it has been operationalized in practice: seven of these occurred at the system-level (interagency collaboration; service provider training; safety; leadership, governance and agency processes; youth and family/carer choice in care; cultural and gender sensitivity; youth and family/carer participation), and three involved trauma-specific clinical practices (screening and assessment; psychoeducation; therapeutic interventions). There is a need for greater consensus regarding an operating definition of trauma-informed care and further research into outcomes for young people and their families/carers.
ISSN:1077-5595
1552-6119
DOI:10.1177/1077559520927468