This textbook is designed to give a comprehensive overview of trauma-informed care to students and faculty involved in nursing care programs.
Key features:
- Explains the skill sets to assess and care for persons who have experienced trauma.
- Emphasizes key principles of trauma-informed care
- Includes the use of client-centered, person-centered, and resilience-based tools to deal with trauma
- Recommends trauma recovery from a positive psychology and post-traumatic growth perspective
- Utilizes a caring pedagogy intended to foster resilience and help offset the secondary traumatic stress and compassion fatigue experienced by student and practicing nurses.
- Communicates the value of fostering psychological safety, compassion satisfaction, and joy in work
- Includes narrative case studies and learning activities in all chapters to help the reader to actively engage with the subject matter.
- Presents self-care strategies to enhance physical and emotional well-being.