Using a Trauma‐Informed Framework to Care for Incarcerated Women

Harner, Holly M.; Burgess, Ann Wolbert

doi:10.1111/j.1552-6909.2011.01259.x

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“…Davy (2006) used clinical nursing experience to present guidelines for providing trauma-informed care for patients undergoing gastroenterological endoscopy, a very invasive procedure with the potential to cause intense distress. Case study papers have focused on caring for survivors of sexual abuse in physical therapy (Dunleavy & Kubo Slowik, 2012), orthopedic surgery (Draucker & Spradlin, 2001), and palliative oncology settings (Wygant et al, 2011), as well as in prisons (Harner & Burgess, 2011). The previously identified themes for providing trauma-informed care are supported across these settings, but unique challenges to implementing trauma-informed care exist, such as the short provider-patient relationships inherent to endoscopy clinics and the authoritarian environment of prisons.…”

Section: Trauma-informed Care In Diverse Settingsmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…The nature of the health care setting, however, may pose challenges to maximizing the autonomy of survivors in health care interactions. For example, Harner and Burgess (2011) discussed the challenge of giving incarcerated patients control over health decisions and interactions in authoritarian prison environments. Across settings, maximizing patients' autonomy as much as possible can minimize distress and improve health care experiences for trauma survivors.…”

Section: Minimizing Distress and Maximizing Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Synthesis of the Literature on Trauma-Informed Care

Reeves

2015

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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Patients with a history of traumatic life events can become distressed or re-traumatized as the result of healthcare experiences. These patients can benefit from trauma-informed care that is sensitive to their unique needs. However, despite the widespread prevalence of traumatic life experiences such as sexual assault and intimate partner violence, trauma-informed care has not been widely researched or implemented. The purpose of this synthesis of the literature is to examine existing research on trauma-informed care for survivors of physical and sexual abuse. The following themes are discussed: trauma screening and patient disclosure, provider-patient relationships, minimizing distress and maximizing autonomy, multidisciplinary collaboration and referrals, and trauma-informed care in diverse settings. This synthesis also explores implications for trauma-informed care research, practice and policy. The themes identified here could be used as a framework for creating provider and survivor educational interventions and for implementing trauma-informed care across disciplines. The findings of this synthesis support further research on patient and provider experiences of trauma-informed care, and research to test the efficacy of trauma-informed care interventions across healthcare settings. Universal implementation of trauma-informed care can ensure that the unique needs of trauma survivors as patients are met, and mitigate barriers to care and health disparities experienced by this vulnerable population.

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Section: Trauma-informed Care In Diverse Settingsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Minimizing Distress and Maximizing Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Synthesis of the Literature on Trauma-Informed Care

Reeves

2015

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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“…Both contain articles describing ways to improve therapeutic practice and the provision of health and human services with criminalized women. In particular, there is some overlap in the areas of mental health issues and trauma-informed practice (Harner & Burgess, 2011;Harner & Riley, 2013;Kelly et al, 2014;Mangnall & Yurkovich, 2010;Pedlar et al, 2008;Rehman et al, 2004). Both bodies of literature contain some research using participatory action methodologies and innovative programming (Martin et al, 2009;O'Gorman et al, 2012;Pedlar et al, 2008;Sherwood & Kendall, 2013).…”

Section: Comparison Of Articles From Each Body Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 93%

“…The largest appears to be research studies (mostly qualitative) aimed at improving clinical practice in prisons (Harner & Burgess, 2011;Kelly, Cheng, Spencer-Carver, & Ramaswamy, 2014). There is a smaller number of nonresearch articles suggesting approaches to the care of incarcerated women (Hufft & Peternelj-Taylor, 2008) and seemingly an even smaller number of articles on participatory action research, describing ways of developing collaborative methods of working with criminalized women (O'Gorman et al, 2012;Sherwood & Kendall, 2013).…”

Section: Nursing Literature On Incarcerated Womenmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Like other nurse authors (Harner & Burgess, 2011), Mangnall and Yurkovich incorporate a trauma-informed framework. They posit a circular model to describe what women engaging in DSH experience-building up anxiety/ anger, engaging in DSH, experiencing relief, and being punished for self-harm by placement in solitary confinement, which intensifies the anxiety/anger necessitating further DSH.…”

Section: Nursing Literature On Incarcerated Womenmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Nursing Practice With Incarcerated Women

Hardill¹

2015

Journal of Forensic Nursing

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Nurses who practice with criminalized women will recognize this group as profoundly marginalized through multiple, intersecting mechanisms. The number of women imprisoned in North America, Latin America, Australia, and Western Europe continues to rise as it has for the past 20 years or more. As a nurse who has practiced almost exclusively with marginalized people, I have met and cared for many women whose health is made vulnerable by race, poverty, homelessness, mental health issues, and other factors. Many of them have been repeatedly incarcerated, experiencing chronically destabilizing cycles of getting arrested, going to jail, getting out, being homeless, getting arrested again, and repeating the cycle. To better understand the implications for nursing with respect to criminalized women, a focused review of the nursing and feminist scholarly literature on incarcerated women was conducted. The predominant themes and trends from both bodies of literature are presented and cross-compared. An analysis of what each body of scholarly work can offer to the other, including implications for nursing practice, concludes the literature review.

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Development and Validation of the Trauma‐informed Practice Scales

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Sullivan

Serrata³

et al. 2016

Journal Community Psychology

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Spurred by research demonstrating the pervasiveness and impact of trauma, domestic violence programs are increasingly adopting a trauma‐informed approach. In the absence of measurement tools, however, they are unable to determine whether indeed clients experience their practices as trauma‐informed. The aim of this study was to create and validate a set of scales that measure the degree to which DV programs are using trauma informed practices (TIP) from survivors' perspectives. We generated measure items based on a literature review, interviews with experts, and focus groups with survivors and advocates; administered the draft measure in the context of a survey of 370 survivors from 15 DV programs; and evaluated its factor structure, reliability, and validity. Results supported the validity and reliability of the TIP Scales, which assess six domains: Environment of Agency and Mutual Respect, Access to Information on Trauma, Opportunities for Connection, Emphasis on Strengths, Cultural Responsiveness/Inclusivity, and Support for Parenting.

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Using a Trauma‐Informed Framework to Care for Incarcerated Women

Cited by 39 publications

References 31 publications

A Synthesis of the Literature on Trauma-Informed Care

A Synthesis of the Literature on Trauma-Informed Care

Nursing Practice With Incarcerated Women

Development and Validation of the Trauma‐informed Practice Scales

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