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Trauma Practice
Section 1:
Trauma Practice

Using consistent language to describe the work you do helps survivors, funders and other stakeholders understand what services are being offered.

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Key Principles and Practice

Shared Language and Terminology
Staff Skills
Section 2:
Staff Skills

This section covers how to build a highly-skilled, qualified and supported staff team. It will help you assess what skills and knowledge you already have in your workforce, as well as understanding any gaps that exist and what evidence-based training works best to respond to this.

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Develop a fully trauma-informed and responsive staff team

The importance of regular, high-quality supervision

Keep staff up-to-date on Safety and Stabilisation principles and techniques

Counsellor qualifications and training

Requirements for specialist techniques
Suicide Risk
Section 3:
Suicide Risk and Crisis Management

Research shows that children who experience abuse or neglect are at least two to three times more likely to attempt suicide in later life. Early identification of suicidal thoughts and behaviour – and effective care for those at risk – are crucial in ensuring survivors receive the care they need and deserve.

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Risk assessment

Crisis management

Crisis prevention
Evaluation
Section 4:
Evaluation

This section covers how to evaluate services that support survivors, taking you through the process of design and implementation of an evaluation plan. It also looks at the wider benefits that good evaluation can have for survivors organisations.

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What is evaluation and why is it important?

How to get started with evaluating your service for survivors

How to develop your evaluation plan

Further reading

Evidencing your approach
Measures and Scales
Section 5A:
Using Validated Measures in Practice

This section builds on this work and provides guidance on using validated measures to gather meaningful information on the clinical improvements you aim to bring about. This section will also support you to consider how to ensure that your data is transparent and robust, allowing for other factors which may influence a survivor’s recovery.

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How to measure progress against common outcome measures for survivors

Recommended validated measures for wellbeing

Recommended validated measures for counselling
Scoring the Scales
Section 5B:
Scoring the Scales

In this section we describe in more detail how to score and analyse the data from validated tools. This helps to ensure that the data is transparent and robust and builds in controls for other factors which may affect a survivors recovery.

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Scoring the CORE – Outcome Measure

Scoring the CORE-10 measure

Scoring the International Trauma Questionaire (ITQ)

Scoring the WSAS scale

Interpretation and Presentation of Results
Staff Wellbeing
Section 6:
Staff wellbeing

Your staff are the key component in the quality of the support survivors receive and ultimately the outcomes survivors achieve. It is impossible to support survivors to a high standard if the staff team’s wellbeing is compromised. And while the work is important and rewarding, it can also be difficult and emotionally challenging.

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Why is wellbeing important?

Potential risks to watch out for

How to support a colleague you are concerned about

Developing a staff resilience and wellbeing strategy

A recommended tool to support proactive wellbeing planning

Further Reading

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Trauma Practice
Staff Skills
Suicide Risk
Evaluation
Measures and Scales
Scoring the Scales
Staff Wellbeing