Redefining Residential: Trauma-Informed Care in Residential Treatment
K. Sisson.
American Association of Children's Residential Centers, AACRC, 2010
“A
significant number of children and youth served in residential treatment
programs have suffered overwhelming stress and trauma prior to placement.
Residential programs have typically striven to create safe, comfortable, and
nurturing environments in which children could work through issues and develop
new skills, but have also implemented practices and interventions that have at
times had the unintended effect of retraumatizing the youth or triggering
traumatic reenactments. Many organizations have implemented changes to become
more trauma-sensitive, but it is important that programs keep pace with the
advances in knowledge generated by the explosion of neurobiological research in
the past decade.”