The need for trauma-informed integrative care

Trauma-informed care (TIC) is not trauma therapy. Rather, TIC models recognize the high prevalence of trauma in our society, attempting to create healing, non-triggering environments for all patients, clients, and staff. In the last few decades, there has been more awareness regarding the impacts of untreated trauma upon health outcomes, and more sensitivity to recognizing trauma in patients. In the mid-1990s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Kaiser Healthcare teamed up…