The right question is: What happened to this person? What happened to a beautiful baby boy to turn him into an 18-year-old killer spouting racist screed?
The term trauma-informed care and its practices are widely used among area nonprofits, advocates and activists.
It s a broad term that can look different depending on the field it s applied in, but the core meaning remains the same: to make everyone involved feel safe, empowered and valued. On a fundamental level, providing trauma-informed care is really recognizing that an individual has, more likely than not, had a history of trauma. Our objective in providing care is to prevent retraumatization by reducing triggers, Tim Black, White Bird Clinic s director of consulting, said. I think that White Bird and CAHOOTS have been applying principles of trauma-informed care without necessarily having that vocabulary.
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Commentary: Conflict in families has more negative outcomes on children than divorce does There are no fixed formulas on how children are impacted by their parents’ marriages but there are common fault lines says social worker Cindy Ng.
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SINGAPORE: In our line of work, we have the opportunity to observe upfront some of the biggest stressors that families in Singapore go through.
They run the gamut of financial hardship, family dysfunction and very commonly, conflict among spouses. Let me sketch out two such cases we have seen and what we can learn about how children are afflicted by conflict.