Therapist Shari B. Kaplan argues that trauma-informed care requires teaching people to regulate their fight-or-flight response and perform repair work to regain control over their thoughts and emotions. She calls for concrete protocols to train clinicians so these skills reach more people.
We really need to be teaching people about how to regulate their body's fight or flight and how to focus their minds and how to do the repair work that gets our body back into that state where you can be in charge and you can be back in control of what you think and what you feel and being able to just look at it and redirect yourself. But I think we need some skills and tools in order to do that. And I think we need to get out there and really teach protocols to clinicians so that we can help more people in our population.
When Grief Feels Overwhelming: Finding Ground in Nature #mentalhealthawareness
