Best practices for training trauma-informed practitioners: Supervisors’ voice.

Abstract

A qualitative approach was used to study the perspective of supervisors providing supervision for trauma-informed practice in trauma impacted environments. Twelve supervisors, diverse in personal and professional background, participated in a single unstructured in-depth interview. The 12 interviews were recorded and content-analyzed. Three main themes emerged from the analysis, including factors that shaped supervision for trauma-informed practice, challenges in providing it, and perceived effective strategies. These themes are embedded within the narratives of the supervisors. Implications for practice and research are offered as ways to supervise from a trauma-informed lens within trauma impacted environments.

Trauma‐Informed Supervision: Clinical Supervision of Substance Use Disorder Counselors

“…Although many representations of TIP delineate five core tenets (Berger & Quiros, ; Conover, Sharp, & Salerno, ; Goodman et al, ), SAMHSA's () trauma‐informed approach adds an additional sixth tenet—cultural, historical, and gender issues—whereby issues relevant to culture, gender, race, ethnicity, and historical trauma are included in overall TIP (see Figure ). Specifically, policies and processes that are inclusive of these factors are taken into consideration when developing treatment protocols (SAMHSA, ).…”

“…Berger and Quiros () qualitatively explored the perceptions and practice of TIS clinical supervisors. Twelve participants shared their ideas and experiences about qualities of TIS, challenges to providing TIS, and effective TIS interventions.…”

“…The case study begins with the background context and then is guided by the six TIP tenets (SAMHSA, ). Best practice recommendations from Berger and Quiros's () research on TIS and SAMHSA's () TIP are woven within each tenet.…”

Trauma Informed Practice and Care: Implications for Field Instruction

“…Further, field instructors often are unfamiliar with requisites of a trauma-informed orientation and their implications for practice and supervision. This problem is compounded by the lack of guidelines for traumainformed supervision, generally (Knight 2018;Berger and Quiros 2016;Mattar 2011).…”

Trauma-informed practice and supervision for volunteer counsellors of online psychological support groups during the impact of COVID-19

“…Proactively adopting a Trauma-Informed Perspective will mitigate the negative effects (Cieslak et al, 2014). Trauma informed supervision (TIS) following the five principles of 'safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration and empowerment' can form a 'buffer' against vicarious trauma (Berger & Quiros, 2016;Jordan, 2018). Nevertheless, there is no agreement about what is good TIS (National Child Traumatic Stress Network -NTCSN, 2018).…”