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Trauma‐informed health care: Its time is now
Author(s) -
PaccioneDyszlewski Margaret
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30344
Subject(s) - worry , visitor pattern , health care , trauma care , medicine , medical emergency , nursing , psychology , psychiatry , anxiety , computer science , economics , programming language , economic growth
Those of us who work in health care are intimately familiar with trauma. Medical trauma routinely appears on our doorstep as the fractured pelvis, serious burn, or brain injury. But what of the other trauma — the one that is less visible, excruciatingly painful, and always present in health care settings: psychological trauma. There is hardly a patient or visitor who crosses the threshold of a health care facility who does not carry a reservoir of worry, fear, stress, or trauma.