Trauma-informed practice is something many of us will have heard about. Originally used in mental-health settings in the 1970s, the approach is now used more widely. We find it in schools and early years settings, as well as services such as social care, the police and healthcare.
Fifty years on, however, trauma-informed practice is up for question.
Clare Cook in TES(2023) raises an important issue: ‘Should schools hold off any embrace of trauma-informed practice until the evidence is stronger?’
Critics are warning that trauma-informed practices are not always being applied with fidelity and could be doing more harm than good. As practices are used more widely, they can become distanced from their original conception.
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