Developing trauma-informed care and adapted pathways using the Power, Threat, Meaning framework (Part 1: Being heard and understood differently)

Abstract

Trauma-informed care for people seeking help with complex experiences of adversity and trauma needs to enable people to be genuinely heard, meaningfully understood, and offered attuned help. We consider how the Power Threat Meaning framework (PTMF; Johnstone et al., 2018) can be applied to understand a person’s history and current experience, and we describe how we are adapting pathways of care within mental health services in order that people are helped more effectively.