Trauma-Informed Care in Social Work Education

""In this era of heightened interest in trauma-informed care, social work students, educators, and professionals can easily be overwhelmed and confused by the information available. This book is the answer. It provides thorough, compelling, well-researched, and clinically based information to navigate this important area of study. From conceptual theories and models to strategies for best designing and implementing social work curriculum, practice, and policy, this must-read book provides the broad and robust perspective needed to transform social work education."" Delphine Collin- Vézina, Ph.D, is a professor at the School of Social Work, McGill University ""This work has breadth and depth and has practice relevant insights into the significance of trauma informed practice within the profession. Highly recommended for scholars, students, and practitioners of social work alike."" John Graham, Ph.D., RSW, is a professor at the School of Social Work, University of British Columbia ""In our modern world, the majority of people will be exposed to at least one traumatic event in the course of our lifetimes. A compassionate approach to care asks us to recognize the social and cultural contexts of traumatic events while also addressing the impact on our bodies, brains, and emotional processing capacities. This volume of trauma-informed care for social work education is an invaluable resource for all students and educators allowing you to not only provide excellence in your care for others but ensure that you preserve your own embodied well-being as you serve your community."" Arielle Schwartz, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, founder of Resilience Informed Therapy, and author of The Complex PTSD Workbook ""In this incredibly thorough, thoughtful, and timely book, editors Lea Tufford and Arielle Dylan have assembled a dream team of leading voices in social work education to provide the most complete, in depth and rigorous approach imaginable to the pressing challenge of integrating trauma-informed principles of care into all aspects of social work education. Anyone and everyone involved in educating, training and supervising social workers for the complex challenges of recognizing and skillfully treating trauma in its intersecting individual, collective, structural and intergenerational dimensions will benefit enormously from this groundbreaking contribution."" Joseph J. Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D., Academic Director, Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in Epidemiology, Weill Cornell Medical College