What’s on the Trauma-Informed Care poster
A definition and 6 facts worth remembering.
An approach that assumes trauma may be present and organises care to avoid causing further harm.
- Safety — physical and emotional, as the person defines it
- Trustworthiness — clear, consistent, transparent practice
- Choice — genuine options wherever they exist
- Collaboration — decisions made with, not for
- Empowerment — building on existing strengths
- Cultural, historical and gender responsiveness
- Question — What happened
- Not — What is wrong
- Applies to — Every service
- Explaining a procedure and asking permission before touching costs seconds and preven…
Educational reference. Trauma-informed practice is a service-wide approach, not a therapy. Trauma treatment is delivered by trained therapists.
Questions about the Trauma-Informed Care poster
- What’s on the Trauma-Informed Care poster?
- A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. An approach that assumes trauma may be present and organises care to avoid causing further harm. Safety — physical and emotional, as the person defines it; Trustworthiness — clear, consistent, transparent practice; Choice — genuine options wherever they exist; Collaboration — decisions made with, not for; Empowerment — building on existing strengths; Cultural, historical and gender responsiveness; Question — What happened; Not — What is wrong; Applies to — Every service; Explaining a procedure and asking permission before touching costs seconds and preven…. Educational reference. Trauma-informed practice is a service-wide approach, not a therapy. Trauma treatment is delivered by trained therapists.
- Who is the Trauma-Informed Care poster for?
- Trauma-Informed Care belongs to the Nursing section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning mental health can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Trauma-Informed Care poster?
- It asks what happened to you rather than what is wrong with you. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Trauma-Informed Care belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Trauma-Informed Care?
- Anxiety in Practice, De-escalation and Delirium & Dementia sit alongside Trauma-Informed Care in the Nursing section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Anxiety in PracticeDe-escalationDelirium & Dementia
- Is the Trauma-Informed Care poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Trauma-Informed Care downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Nursing 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 Trauma-Informed Care poster print at?
- Trauma-Informed Care 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 Trauma-Informed Care loses nothing.Printing guide
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