The Need for Trauma-Informed Care: a Conversation with Dr. Laurence Heller and Dr. Christina Bethell
Transforming Trauma
Brad Kammer
4.6 • 141 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Host Sarah Buino facilitates an important discussion between NARM creator Dr. Laurence Heller and Dr. Christina Bethell, researcher, author, policy advocate, and professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Bethell is on the Board of Directors for the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) and is part of a team of trauma-informed advocates who developed the brief: A Trauma-Informed Agenda for the First 100 Days of the Biden-Harris Administration.
Dr. Bethell is leading an effort to promote an agenda of healing and prevention through safe, stable, nurturing relationships, in policy and practice. She is currently involved in multiple research projects focusing on trauma healing, including an article with Dr. Heller, and how to scale trauma-informed trainings for health care professionals on a national level.
Dr. Bethell's work has centered on creating the research base to "promote family resilience and parent-child connection, and looking at social determinants [for health] like alcoholism and mental health problems, emotional neglect, or emotional abuse."
Drs. Bethell and Heller both agree the NARM Training Institute is at the forefront of what this trauma-informed training could look like for helping professionals from various fields.
Dr. Bethell ends the episode with encouragement and a 'call to arms' for all NARM-trained, and other trauma-informed professionals, to step into places of leadership and bring their perspective and skills to healthcare, mental health, education and other social systems. As she describes, "[These systems are] aching for support and help on how to ground the concepts of healing, recognizing… developmental trauma, and doing something about it."
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The NARM Training Institute provides tools for transforming complex trauma through: in-person and online trainings for mental health care professionals; in-person and online workshops on complex trauma and how it interplays with areas like addiction, parenting, and cultural trauma; an online self-paced learning program, the NARM Inner Circle; and other trauma-informed learning resources.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Transforming Trauma podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Transforming Traumming Trauma is presented by the NARM Training Institute. |
| 0:11.0 | The Institute offers NARM practitioner trainings for mental health professionals |
| 0:16.0 | who are looking for advanced training in complex post-traumatic stress disorder. |
| 0:20.0 | The neuro-effective |
| 0:21.3 | relational model is a cutting-edge, innovative approach for resolving C-PTSD, addressing attachment, |
| 0:27.8 | developmental, relational, and intergenerational trauma. I'm your host Sarah Bueno, and I'm delighted |
| 0:34.0 | to have you join us today. |
| 0:46.7 | On this episode of transforming trauma, we're going to share a conversation between Dr. Heller and Dr. Christina Bethel. |
| 0:52.8 | Christina Bethel is a professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:55.5 | where she advances an integrated science of thriving, focused on the recognition and healing of developmental and collective trauma. |
| 1:00.7 | She has sparked and shaped the conversation to make safe, stable, nurturing relationships |
| 1:05.8 | a matter of public health and policy. |
| 1:08.2 | She is an avid student of the human potential for flourishing amid |
| 1:11.6 | adversity and is dedicated to the implementation of the national prioritizing possibilities agenda |
| 1:17.3 | to address childhood trauma and promote the relational roots of well-being and policy and practice. |
| 1:23.2 | She writes poetry, dances, and believes that a tuned connection with ourselves, life and others, |
| 1:28.4 | is the source of our creativity and joy. Dr. Bethel is on the board of directors for the campaign |
| 1:33.8 | for trauma-informed policy and practice, and is part of the team of trauma-informed advocates |
| 1:38.7 | who developed a brief, a trauma-informed agenda for the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration. |
| 1:45.7 | This brief outlines executive actions for the Biden-Harris administration to address trauma |
| 1:50.8 | and build resilience through the country. The brief begins, we must build a culture of healing |
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