Insights, Articles & Resources on Trauma-Informed Practice and Mental Health
Our articles explore trauma-informed practice, mental health, safeguarding, wellbeing, and professional development across health, social care, education, and public-sector services. These insights are designed to support reflective practice, evidence-based learning, and real-world application alongside our trauma-informed training courses.
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Criminal exploitation rarely relies on force alone. Instead, it is sustained through grooming, coercive control and psychological manipulation that gradually remove choice, increase dependency and...
Across the UK, children and vulnerable adults who are criminally exploited are frequently treated as offenders rather than victims. Despite growing awareness of county lines, Read More »...
Criminal exploitation is a growing safeguarding and criminal justice concern across the UK. It affects children, young people and adults who are groomed, coerced or Read More »...
Debates around harm reduction versus abstinence have shaped substance use services for decades. These approaches are often presented as opposites one seen as permissive, the Read More »...
The term “complex needs” is widely used across health, housing, social care, safeguarding, and criminal justice services. Yet it is often misunderstood, inconsistently applied, or Read More »...
People experiencing substance use, homelessness, mental ill-health, offending, or repeated crisis involvement are often described as having complex needs. In reality, these needs are not Read More...
When people think about fatal outcomes of domestic abuse, the focus is often on homicides cases where someone is killed by a partner or family Read More »...
Coercive control is a pattern of behaviour designed to dominate, isolate, and entrap another person through psychological, emotional, financial, and social means. In the UK, Read More »...
Psychological abuse does not leave physical scars, so it is less likely to trigger standard risk assessments used in suicide prevention. Many service models are Read More »...
In the UK, many people who work within health, social care, mental health, domestic abuse, substance use, criminal justice, housing and community services are carrying Read More »...
Trauma-informed practice has become an increasingly familiar concept across health, social care, education and community services in the UK. More organisations are recognising that many Read More...
When working with individuals affected by substance use, one pattern shows up again and again: a history of trauma. Whether we’re talking about childhood abuse, Read More »...
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