Reporting TraumaCovering death, violence and disaster without adding to the harm.Communications & MediaApproach, method and specific guidance.MethodIdentify yourself and the purpose clearlyAccept a refusal the first timeLet them set pace, place and limitsExplain what will be published, and whenCheck facts back where it is safe toWidely used guidanceAvoid describing suicide method or siteDo not present suicide as a solutionInclude help information where relevantAvoid gratuitous images of the deadConsider risk to the reporter as wellEducational reference. Suicide reporting guidelines exist in mostcountries and evidence supports them. Follow your local guidance.Reporting Traumalearnposters.com
Reporting Trauma — printable humanities wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the Reporting Trauma poster

10 entries in 2 groups.

Approach, method and specific guidance.

Educational reference. Suicide reporting guidelines exist in most countries and evidence supports them. Follow your local guidance.

Questions about the Reporting Trauma poster

What’s on the Reporting Trauma poster?
10 entries in 2 groups. Approach, method and specific guidance. Method: Identify yourself and the purpose clearly, Accept a refusal the first time, L…; Widely used guidance: Avoid describing suicide method or site, Do not present suicide…. Educational reference. Suicide reporting guidelines exist in most countries and evidence supports them. Follow your local guidance.
Who is the Reporting Trauma poster for?
Reporting Trauma belongs to the Communications & Media section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning media law & ethics can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Reporting Trauma poster?
Before approaching anyone bereaved, injured or recently in danger. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Reporting Trauma belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Reporting Trauma?
AI in the Newsroom, Conflicts of Interest and Reporting Courts sit alongside Reporting Trauma in the Communications & Media section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AI in the NewsroomConflicts of InterestReporting Courts
Is the Reporting Trauma poster free to download and print?
Yes. Reporting Trauma downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Communications & Media section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Reporting Trauma poster print at?
Reporting Trauma is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Reporting Trauma loses nothing.Printing guide

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