A Treasure Box for Creating Trauma-Informed Organizations

Karen Treisman, MBE, is an award-winning specialist Clinical Psychologist, trainer, organizational consultant, and bestselling author, working in the UK and internationally. Karen is also the Director of Safe Hands and Thinking Minds Training and Consultancy services.

Think about your life for a minute. Along the way, you have learned a great deal - formally and informally, cognitively and emotionally. Now imagine that you were somehow able to take everything you have learned, expressed in words and images, and then put it all into a very large box. Of course, it would need to be a very big box and such a thing would be almost impossible to organize. So, imagine now that you found a way to organize all of it so you could immediately draw upon that knowledge and convey it to other people. That is what Dr. Karen Treisman has done with these two volumes.Dr. Karen Treisman is a sensitive, knowledgeable, creative clinician and teacher. She is an artist who is able to integrate two distinctly different ways of knowing, given our divided brains, and in doing so produces tools that are easy to understand and easy to use. This new toolbox is precisely that - a set of powerful and imaginative tools that help individuals and organizations understand what has gone wrong for the people in their care and how to make it right. But it also offers tools for everyone who works within those organizations to better understand themselves and what we need to do to bring about healthier treatment environments and healthier systems.

• Part 1: Introduction to Individual and Organizational Trauma, as Well as the What, Why and How of Trauma-Informed System-Wide Change1. Introduction and Types of Trauma2. Organizational Trauma3. What and Why: Trauma-Informed Rationale4. Baseline and Readiness AssessmentPart 2: Values and Principles5. Safety and Trust6. Relationship Focus7. Curiosity/Behaviour is Communication8. Strengths and Hope9. Cultural Humility and Responsiveness10. Co-Production Voice and Choice11. Integration and Connection/Collaboration/Communication and Values SummaryPart 3: Trauma-Informed Practice Being Infused into Various Aspects of the Organization12. Language13. Leadership14. Team Meetings and Reflective Practice15. Supervision16. Staff Wellbeing17. Training, Building Momentum and Working Groups18. Policies, Induction and Recruitment Including Disciplinary Processes19. Practices Including Assessments and Transitions