2021
DOI: 10.1097/gco.0000000000000749
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Trauma-informed abortion care

Abstract: Purpose of reviewPeople seeking reproductive care experience trauma on many levels including personal, structural, in medical care, and in barriers to care. This article reviews key aspects of a Trauma-Informed Care approach in abortion and reproductive healthcare. Recent findingsExperiences of trauma are common and compounding, including systemic trauma, such as racism, sexism, and transphobia. Reproductive healthcare itself traumatizes and re-traumatizes. Trauma Informed Care (TIC) approach to individual abo… Show more

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“…These results suggest a number of clinical and policy implications. Given the frequency with which key informants and community members discussed interpersonal and structural violence and abortion care, reproductive health providers should familiarize themselves with trauma-informed care across reproductive health services to ensure they are not compounding the trauma experiences of their patients (Cahill & Doyle, 2021; Tillman, 2020). Trauma-informed care also includes the elimination of barriers to care and clinicians are critical to building accessible health systems (Wycoff & Matone, 2019); providers should continue working toward addressing barriers within their clinics, such as offering services and paperwork in multiple languages.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These results suggest a number of clinical and policy implications. Given the frequency with which key informants and community members discussed interpersonal and structural violence and abortion care, reproductive health providers should familiarize themselves with trauma-informed care across reproductive health services to ensure they are not compounding the trauma experiences of their patients (Cahill & Doyle, 2021; Tillman, 2020). Trauma-informed care also includes the elimination of barriers to care and clinicians are critical to building accessible health systems (Wycoff & Matone, 2019); providers should continue working toward addressing barriers within their clinics, such as offering services and paperwork in multiple languages.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… 20 , 21 Patients with a history of rape, incest, or other trauma may particularly prefer to avoid a procedure and the Trauma Informed Care approach includes maximizing patient safety, choice, and privacy. 22 Parental involvement laws and the judicial bypass process are antithetical to a trauma informed approach to care.…”
Section: Medical Consequences Of the Judicial Bypass Processmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The meaning is the termination or expulsion of the results of pregnancy from the uterus prematurely. Expulsion is meant that the expulsion of the fetus is intentional with human intervention, either through mechanical means, drugs, or other means (Cahill & Doyle, 2021).…”
Section: The Psychological Impact Of Unsafe Abortionmentioning
confidence: 99%