What is Trauma-Informed Lawyering?
This approach goes beyond the traditional legal practices by recognizing the prevalence and unique nature of trauma, acknowledging individuals involved in the legal system who may have experienced various forms of trauma. This practice fosters an environment that centers on the needs of those who experienced trauma. Trauma-Informed Lawyering helps to better serve clients while contributing to a more compassionate legal system.
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Articles
Establishing a Trauma-Informed Lawyer-Client Relationship
SAMHA's Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach
The Importance of Trauma-Informed Lawyering
The Pedagogy of Trauma-Informed Lawyering
Towards Trauma-Informed Legal Practice
Trauma-Informed Judicial Practice from the Judges' Perspective
Understanding Trauma-Informed Legal Services
Podcasts
Exploring Development Trauma Disorder Among Offending Populations: In Pursuit of Healing and Justice
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This brief aims to shed light on the prevalence and effects of developmental trauma among offending populations' emotional, cognitive, and social development. Through a comprehensive review of existing literature and case studies, this brief will explore the complex interplay between developmental trauma and criminal behavior. By understanding the unique challenges faced by individuals with developmental trauma, readers will be able to shape more effective strategies for prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation within the criminal justice system. With a focus on trauma-informed care and evidence-based practices, this brief will offers insights into the urgent need for targeted support and intervention to break the cycle of trauma and offending.
Handbook of Psychological Injury and Law
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This book provides a comprehensive presentation of psychological problems, such as posttraumatic stress, depression and chronic pain, that are the result of injury or trauma and legal proceedings, such as tort after motor vehicle collisions. It stresses the complex nature of these disabilities, particularly in the judicial setting, and the critical task of accurately assessing and diagnosing the extent of the injury. Assessments involve the use of standardized tests, including those that assess for negative response bias and possible malingering. The chapters that follow cover key psychological disorders and explore their effects in a range of populations, which can vary by age, sex, and minority or racial status. It encompasses international perspectives and emphasizes the importance of relevant factors that affect assessment, rehabilitation, and compensation. It is ideal for psychologists and mental health professionals working in in a field that requires a comprehensive, scientifically-informed, impartial approach to assessment that will stand up in court.
Professional's Guide to Trauma-Informed Decision Making
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Professionals Guide to Trauma-informed Ethical Decision Making offers helping professionals a framework comprising the 10 Principles of Trauma-informed Ethical Practice (Stark, Tapia-Fuselier, & Bunch, 2022) enhanced with prominent ethical decision making models. These principles build upon the SAMHSA (2014) conceptualization of trauma-informed care, address key concepts such as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their long-term impact, marginalization stress, the influence of military and law enforcement experience, and others. Despite distinctions between the diversity of helping professions (in credentials, scope of practice, and theoretical approach), the same decision making models for trauma-informed care is a requirement for best practice. Thus, this volume is designed to address the needs of professionals serving diverse clientele, particularly those whove experienced trauma and adversity. Practitioners may utilize this text to as a guide to assist with ethical decision making when working with client survivors of trauma, and educators may select this text as required reading to support the development of trauma-informed clinicians-in-training. Professionals working with mental health and substance use disorders are confronted routinely with multi systemic factors influencing the presenting concerns, including complex trauma, cultural tenets and practices, and societal stigmatizations. It is important for professionals to have a clear understanding of the ethical implications for the work they do. This comprehensive and cutting-edge text Professional's Guide to Trauma-informed Decision Making is a must read because it offers a practical and indispensable roadmap on how to navigate presenting concerns well, while remaining client-centered, trauma-informed, and ethical.
Together Unbroken
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"Together Unbroken focuses on the histories, laws, policies, practices, and judicial cases that influence child welfare interventions and impact families. In questioning the traditional orientation and function of child welfare that is fraught with oppression and family separation, the book promotes a new framework for meeting the needs of children and their families and calls for systemic transformation that enables the ultimate reflection of safety, stability and well-being--the ability to heal. The survivors and advocates who courageously shared their stories show the human face of these often-abstracted issues." -- Publisher's website
Trauma-Informed Approaches Among the Adult Drug Court Setting
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This brief explores trauma-informed practices in adult drug courts, highlighting the roles of judges, attorneys, court managers, case managers, law enforcement, treatment providers, and alumni. It emphasizes the need for all staff to operate from a trauma-informed care (TIC) model, prioritizing safety, choice, collaboration, trustworthiness, empowerment, and cultural considerations. Drawing on the restorative justice movement, this volume addresses the link between trauma and criminal justice involvement, noting how incarceration worsens retraumatization and racial inequities. Implementing TIC can transform clients' experiences in the justice system. This guide includes: An overview of TIC principles in practice. Worksheets for creating a trauma-informed setting. Examples of TIC application in various roles. Essential for US drug court professionals, this resource provides practical guidance on trauma-informed care.
Trauma-Informed Law
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"Our focus is on trauma as it impacts and applies to lawyers and clients in practice, legal education, courts and judges, and the legal system and profession as a whole. This book gives voice to only some of the many traumatic experiences that arise in all aspects of law. Unless we hear these voices, we cannot begin to address the many legal, ethical, moral, educational, juridical systems or other issues they raise even where we have tools to do so. The pursuit of justice means voices of trauma in the legal system deserve to be heard, individually and collectively, even when it's difficult to listen"-- Provided by publisher
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