Trauma-Informed Assessment

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Trauma-Informed Assessment

What is a Trauma-Informed Assessment?

A trauma-informed assessment is a comprehensive process that is designed to help provide an understanding of the child’s trauma and how that impacted them. The assessment is conducted by a trained professional and used to determine how the trauma has affected the child’s development.

Importance

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Family Engagement

Safe Environment

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Summer Goos & Ean Goos Department of Education, Concordia University-St. Paul CI 585 Educational Assessment-Cohort 183 Professor Rico Bohern December 21, 2022

References

Kisiel, C., Fehrenbach, T., Conradi, L., & Weil, L. (2021). KeyPrinciples and Essential Organizational Process Elements of Trauma-Informed Assessment. In Trauma-Informed Assessment With Children and Adolescents: Strategies to Support Clinicians (pp. 17–32). American Psychological Association. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1gd0vnr.6 Kisiel, C., Fehrenbach, T., Conradi, L., & Weil, L. (2021). Introduction:Understanding the Rationale for and Benefits of Trauma-Informed Assessment. In Trauma-Informed Assessment With Children and Adolescents: Strategies to Support Clinicians (pp. 3–16). American Psychological Association. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1gd0vnr.5 Understanding child trauma. SAMHSA. (n.d.). Retrieved December 18, 2022, from https://www.samhsa.gov/child-trauma/understanding-child-trauma Wycoff, K. L. & Franzese, B. (2019). Individual and Familial Assessment Tools. In Trauma-informed assessment and intervention in school and community settings. (pp. 181-198). Wiley-Blackwell.