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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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  • Section 4
    • 4.1 What is evaluation and why is it important?
    • 4.2 How to get started with evaluating your service for survivors
    • 4.3 How to develop your evaluation plan
    • 4.4 Further reading
    • 4.5 Evidencing your approach
  • Section 5A
    • 5A.1 How to measure progress against common outcome measures for survivors
    • 5A.2 Recommended validated measures for wellbeing
    • 5A.3 Recommended validated measures for counselling
  • Section 5B
    • 5B.1 Scoring the CORE – Outcome Measure
    • 5B.2 Scoring the CORE-10 measure
    • 5B.3 Scoring the International Trauma Questionaire (ITQ)
    • 5B.4 Scoring the WSAS scale
    • 5B.5 Interpretation and Presentation of Results
  • Section 6
    • 6.1 Why is wellbeing important?
    • 6.2 Potential risks to watch out for
    • 6.3 How to support a colleague showing signs of secondary trauma stress
    • 6.4 Developing a staff resilience and wellbeing strategy
    • 6.5 Practical Wellbeing tool
    • 6.6 Further Reading
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  • Section 1
    • 1.1 Key Principles and Practice
    • 1.2 Shared Language and terminology
  • Section 3
    • 3.1 Risk assessment
    • 3.2 Crisis Management
    • 3.3 Crisis Prevention
    • 3.4 Summary checklist
  • Section 2
    • 2.1 How to create a fully trauma-informed and responsive staff team
    • 2.2 Supervision
    • 2.3 Keep staff up-to-date on Safety and Stabilisation principles and techniques
    • 2.4 Counsellor qualifications and training
    • 2.5 Requirements for specialist techniques
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