Trauma-Informed Mental Health Frameworks

Trauma-Informed Mental Health Practice

Trauma-informed mental health practice recognizes that individuals' emotional, psychological, and behavioral experiences are influenced by the environments in which they live. Environmental housing conditions, housing instability, environmental injustice, and chronic exposure to unsafe living conditions can contribute to stress, adversity, and trauma-related responses. This section provides resources and frameworks that support holistic, person-in-environment approaches to assessment, intervention, resilience, and recovery.

Trauma-Informed Care Frameworks

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Trauma-Informed Care Resources

SAMHSA's Six Principles of Trauma-Informed Care

Trauma-Informed Organizational Toolkit

Downloadable resources that provide guidance for recognizing the impact of trauma and implementing trauma-informed approaches across practice settings.

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Video: We Can Prevent ACEs

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) & Toxic Stress

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ACEs Resources

ACEs and Resilience Research

Toxic Stress Educational Materials

Downloadable resources exploring how adversity, chronic stress, and environmental conditions may influence physical, emotional, and behavioral health across the lifespan.

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Resilience & Strengths-Based Practice

Resilience Theory Resources

Strengths-Based Practice Guides

Community Resilience Frameworks

Downloadable educational materials focused on resilience, protective factors, coping, adaptation, and recovery in the face of adversity and environmental challenges.

Trauma-Informed Assessment & Clinical Practice

Trauma-Informed Interviewing Techniques

Trauma-Informed Assessment Guides

Clinical Practice Tools

Downloadable resources that support safe, collaborative, and

culturally responsive approaches to assessment and intervention.

These downloadable resources support trauma-informed, strengths-based, and person-in-environment approaches to mental health practice. They encourage clinicians to consider how environmental, social, and structural factors may contribute to stress, adversity, resilience, and well-being while promoting holistic and culturally responsive care.

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Downloadable Resources

Person-in-Environment Theory

Ecological Systems Theory

Social Determinants of Health Resources

Frameworks that support understanding the interaction

between individuals, families, communities, and environmental contexts.

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