CLASStime: Trauma-informed care

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CLASStime: Trauma-informed care

March 2023

By Anna Elders

Wednesday 1 March 2023, 01:18 AM

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Trauma-informed care is a framework that recognises the need to have a complete picture of a patient’s life to provide them with effective healthcare. It begins with an awareness of what trauma is and how it affects health and wellbeing. Here, Anna Elders challenges you to purposefully focus on the discovery, validation and support of trauma in your patients

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