{"id":2831,"date":"2024-08-15T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/daniellerousseau\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2024-08-15T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T10:00:10","slug":"trauma-informed-medical-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/daniellerousseau\/2024\/08\/15\/trauma-informed-medical-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Trauma-Informed Medical Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">My blog post focuses on trauma-informed care, its benefits, and ways trauma-informed practices can be implemented in other areas and fields that often interact with justice-involved people. Here, I focus on trauma-informed medical care. It is important to note that trauma-informed practices can help both offenders and victims of crimes in countless ways.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Trauma-Informed Medical Care:<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0\u00a0In a small study of sexual assault survivors, all participants report avoiding routine medical care after their sexual assaults. The details of each person&#8217;s experiences differ significantly. However, none of the participants experienced sexual assault in a medical setting- an important distinction as we discuss why this population avoids care. Medical care often consists of exams with varying degrees of invasiveness, and there is usually a perceived power imbalance between provider and patient. Mary Farley (2022) writes about survivors avoiding medical care, &#8220;Avoiding these appointments, screenings, and tests comprise long-term care. For SA assault survivors, annual gynecological physicals have similarities to the details of their assault.&#8221; (Farley, 2022, p.4). Farley (2022) suggests that trauma-informed care in primary care settings might have a significant impact on survivors and their willingness to consent to routine medical procedures and screenings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Farley (2022) notes one key barrier to more providers embracing a trauma-informed approach<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">: <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">time<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Providers often try to see as many patients as possible daily, making visits rushed and usually impersonal. In this course, we discuss trauma-informed yoga or trauma-sensitive yoga. Dr. Rousseau (2024) includes in her week six lecture, the &#8216;Yoga Service Council&#8217;s Best Practices for Yoga with Veterans,&#8217; a critical point that applies to all trauma survivors is maximizing safety, control, and predictability. Whether in the medical setting or <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">in<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> a yoga class, survivors of any form of trauma will feel safer the more in control they feel. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Control and predictability are critical. Applying these principles to medical care, survivors must know what to expect, and they also must know their provider respects the word &#8220;no,&#8221; something that was likely not respected during their assault.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Farley, M. (2022). Access Barriers to Long-term Healthcare for Female Sexual Assault Survivors. <i>University of Central Florida STARS<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Rousseau , D. (2024, August). <i>Trauma and Crisis Intervention <\/i>. <i>Module 6<\/i>. Boston, MA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My blog post focuses on trauma-informed care, its benefits, and ways trauma-informed practices can be implemented in other areas and fields that often interact with justice-involved people. Here, I focus on trauma-informed medical care. 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