Rodney Trauma Informed Care

Practical Skills for Nurses
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-87526-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 179 Seiten

Reihe: Medicine

This text outlines a practical guide for nurses and healthcare providers to provide care for individuals with varying traumatic histories with an informed perspective. Consideration of trauma as an acute experience to one that can develop into a post-traumatic stress disorder are explored. Additionally, the biological, behavioral, historical and cumulative basis of trauma are discussed as well as the family's role in generational trauma.  

Trauma presents a complex multilayered experience that requires understanding to provide appropriate care. Trauma if often viewed as a physical experience with minimal consideration of the emotional and mental health aspects of these experiences. The perspective of unseen emotional scars is given descriptive graphic to allow the scars to be visualized and treated. The book includes perspectives across the globe  from Thailand, UK, Philippines, India, Ireland, and Caribbean. As such this book will fill a gap in the field.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodney, Tamar

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. History of Trauma-Informed Care .- 2. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder  .- 3. Community Trauma.- 4. Trauma and Settings.- 5. Traumatic Physical Injuries and Mental Health Outcomes .- 6. Trauma Experience and the Impact on Caregivers in Formal and Family Settings.- 7. Generational Trauma.- 8. Cumulative Trauma .- 9. Trauma Exposure and Symptom Presentations.- 10. Trauma Assessment  .- 11. Biological Outcomes.- 12. Trauma and Resilience  .- 13. Addressing Trauma – Behavioral Outcomes.- 14. Addressing Trauma- Reshaping the Future.

Über Autor(innen)

Tamar Rodney, PhD, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC, CNE, FAAN is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, USA. Dr. Rodney is board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner who has worked in trauma and psychiatry. Her PhD research looked at biomarkers for PTSD in veterans with a traumatic brain injury. Her career has had a key focus on PTSD and the way health care professionals approach diagnosis and treatment planning for individuals with mental health needs.