SIG: Trauma Informed Prevention

Trauma has been identified as not only a health disparity and contributing factor to declining physical and mental health but a matter important to integrate into prevention methods and programs across a multitude of fields. In identifying and addressing one’s trauma event history, trauma symptoms, treatment history, cultural perspective, aggravating risks, and mitigating strengths, it is thought that prevention programing will be able to be increasingly holistic, specific, and effective at the same time. Furthermore the study of trauma has expanded into multiple domains and disciplines related to health and mental health including neurobiological, epigenetics, substance use, domestic violence, risky sexual activity, and child welfare. This subject moreover is not limited to adolescent or young adulthood as trauma informed prevention can be applied throughout the life course beginning with infancy and continuing through into work with older gerontological populations. Important in preventative and transdisciplinary work, this SIG is intended to provide the opportunity for interested parties to collaborate and share local, national, and international etiologic perspectives on trauma and the intersection with prevention and intervention programming.