Trauma is the single most significant predictor that an individual will need support from mental health services: Trauma informed care, Assignment, UCC, Ireland

OPTION B

Trauma is the single most significant predictor that an individual will need support from mental health services. Yet despite this association, mental health services have been slow to provide approaches to care and treatment that deal directly with trauma (Beckett and Patton, 2017)

a) With reference to current literature critically discuss how adopting a trauma informed approach can assist in improving child/adolescent mental health and wellbeing. (3,000). Reference: Beckett, P and Patton, D. 2017 Trauma-Informed Care and Practice: Practice Improvement Strategies in an Inpatient Mental Health Ward. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing 55 (10) pp. 34-38. Available at Trauma-Informed Care and Practice: Practice Improvement Strategies in an Inpatient Mental Health Ward – PubMed (nih.gov)

GUIDELINES:

Please adhere to the relevant word limit (+/- 10%) References are not included in the word count For written work use Font size 12 double-spaced. Submission via Loop on the designated date (May 4 2024) Please familiarise yourself the universities regulations regarding plagiarism, copying and collusion. This assignment will be graded using the MCFHW marking matrix below.