"Many primary care clinics are literally traumatized. Traumatized clinics manifest many of the same symptoms as traumatized people. They can be reactive, detached, hierarchical, and fragmented. Traumatized clinics are traumatizing to both patients and the people who work within them." Bri Twombly, LMSW talked about how organizations get organized around trauma, impacting their ability to serve patients, during last week's Tend Collective webinar. So great to see it being discussed. We can work together to move from trauma-organized to trauma-informed. https://lnkd.in/g2DJf_aC
A bold vision for primary care as a protective factor is proposed in this new commentary, coauthored with my pioneering colleagues Drs. Alicia Lieberman, Christina Bethell, and Marguerita Lightfoot. In this vision, primary care is designed and resourced to interrupt the damaging impacts of adversity and toxic stress on health outcomes and health equity. To rebuild the foundations of primary care and overcome entrenched disparities in health, we need an evidence-based vision and models to inspire and guide action. Our hope is that clinicians, researchers, and policy makers focused on seemingly dissimilar issues - childhood and adult adversity, toxic stress, resilience and trauma-informed care, provider burnout, health equity, and health care reform - will see their goals as interdependent and work together to make this vision a reality. Mobile format: https://lnkd.in/gWqHcdc5 PDF: https://lnkd.in/gGbREDy4
Love Ed, Christy, and Alicia's work. Great TIC leaders all!
Trauma-Informed Care and Psychological Safety Consultant at Tend Collective
8moHere is the Tend Collective webinar.