Trauma-Informed Supervision - 9780367352806

Taylor & Francis

Trauma-Informed SupervisionCore Components and Unique Dynamics in Varied Practice Contexts\nAuthor(s): Carolyn Knight, L. DiAnne Borders\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367352806, 978-0367352806\nSynopsis\nSurvivors of trauma are disproportionately represented in agencies providing a broad range of behavioral, social, and mental health services. Practitioners in these settings must understand and be able to respond to survivors of trauma in ways that are empowering, normalize and validate their experiences and reactions, and minimize the risk of retraumatization. Practitioners also will be indirectly traumatized as a result of their work with trauma survivors.\n\nPractitioners ability to help clients with histories of trauma depends upon clinical supervision that is trauma-informed. The trauma-informed supervisor has the dual responsibility of enhancing supervisees skills as trauma-informed practitioners and hel.