by Evan Dwan | Apr 18, 2022 | News |
Trauma-informed practice or trauma-informed care is based on the fact that people who seek care have experienced trauma at least once (Machiodi, 2020). Providing trauma-informed care means linking past experience to present health and reframing behaviours and...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 18, 2022 | News |
The discovery that microbes were the etiological agents behind many killing diseases brought about a revolution in health care and the birth of public health prevention from vaccines to clean water to poverty and healthy eating (Bloom, 2016). Germ theory was a...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 18, 2022 | News |
Trauma, by definition, is unbearable and intolerable. Traumatic experiences leave traces whether on the large scale of our histories and cultures or on families where dark secrets are passed down through the generations. They leave traces also on our minds and...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 17, 2022 | News |
The impact of trauma requires approaches that address the sensory aspects many survivors report (Machiodi, 2020). Expressive arts therapy uses art, music, dance/movement, dramatic enactment, creative writing and imaginative play to facilitate mainly nonverbal...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 17, 2022 | News |
Emerging trends in psychotherapy are starting to point beyond just the traumas of the individual to include trauma from family and social history as part of larger picture (Wolynn, 2016). Trauma from the past can send shockwaves forward through the generations...
