Reducing the Impact of Trauma
Overview
It is important to be mindful of trauma's impact during all of our interactions. Included in this collection are videos, expert interviews, mobile apps, and printables. Explore these resources to shift from a problem-focused lens to one that is more trauma and resilience informed.
Printable Tools
CALMR Worksheet
Communication challenges arise when interacting with others. The CALMR strategy is a simple reminder of how to respond during difficult or even combative situations. The strategy focuses on calming down and staying aware of non-verbal communication to help ease tension and reactions. Use the printable tool with students to help them navigate their responses to challenging interactions.
Cognitive Thought Distortions
Thought distortions are unhelpful or inaccurate patterns of thinking that have become reinforced over time. Use this handout to teach adolescents, adults and families about the most common thought distortions.
Core Principles of Trauma and Resilience Informed Care Worksheet
There are six core principles that contribute to trauma and resilience informed care. Use this printable to identify ways in which your organization's current practices align with those principles. You can also use the printable as a tool to brainstorm new ways to support and enhance each principle.
Noticing Workplace Strengths
Noticing Workplace Strengths is a reflective activity that may be used to develop a strength-based perspective of your work place. Use this handout to reflect on your strengths, the strengths of your colleagues, and your place of employment.
Videos
CALM Explainer Video
Communication challenges arise when interacting with others. The CALM strategy is a simple reminder of how to respond during a difficult or even combative situation. The strategy focuses on calming down and staying aware of non-verbal communication to help ease tension and reactions. Watch this video to learn the CALM strategy.
Learning Pathways
Somatic Series: Widening Our Window of Tolerance
This pathway provides an overview of the Window of Tolerance and accessible, body-based mindfulness practices to support yourself or those in your communities. Learn how the Window of Tolerance concept applies to wellbeing and practical body-based strategies to support wellbeing, nervous system regulation, and a wider Window of Tolerance. This pathway includes explanations, examples, and opportunities for practice. Get ready for a different type of experience: after the first step of the pathway, the milestones will guide you through real-life practices. How to get ready to complete ...
Trainings
Moral Injury as an Identity Wound
In this video, Dr. Bill Nash reviews the history of two competing, overarching conceptions of psychological trauma – one conceiving of trauma as the principal result of maladaptive coping with stress, the other as a literal and enduring wound to a person’s identity or social self. The evidence supporting each conception of trauma is also considered, along with evidence that observed symptoms of moral injury in veteran and healthcare populations may best be understood as resulting from literal damage to one’s identity. Finally, Dr. Nash ...
Mobile Tools
UCLA MARC Mindfulness App
Mindfulness is the practice of training the mind to be present through moment-to-moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, body sensations, and the environment. Download the MARC Mindfulness app to participate in mindfulness meditation practice at work or home.
