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Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, Mental Health, and Education Providers’ Conceptualizations of Trauma-Informed Practice
- Source :
- Child Maltreatment. 21:125-134
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2016.
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Abstract
- This study systematically examined child-service providers’ conceptualizations of trauma-informed practice (TIP) across service systems, including child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, and education. Eleven focus groups and nine individual interviews were conducted, totaling 126 child-service providers. Conventional content analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data with interrater reliability analyses indicating near perfect agreement between coders. Qualitative analysis revealed that child-service providers identified traumatic stress as an important common theme among children and families served as well as the interest in TIP in their service systems. At the same time, child-service providers generally felt knowledgeable about what they define TIP to be, although they articulated wide variations in the degree to which they are taught skills and strategies to respond to their traumatized clients. The results of this study suggest a need for a common lexicon and metric with which to advance TIP within and across child-service systems.
- Subjects :
- Mental Health Services
Child abuse
Social Work
050103 clinical psychology
Service delivery framework
Child Health Services
Child Welfare
Poison control
Qualitative property
Nursing
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
Medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Child Abuse
Child
Social work
business.industry
05 social sciences
Focus Groups
Focus group
Mental health
Connecticut
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Wounds and Injuries
business
050104 developmental & child psychology
Qualitative research
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15526119 and 10775595
- Volume :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Child Maltreatment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....752a92acf0f68442f1da9c005e33f863