Trauma Informed Assessments

To be able to support people recovering from trauma, we need to perform assessments because these assessments provide us information:

• about a person’s experiences that impact their growth, development and functioning

• allow for the integration of those experiences and the understanding of how these experiences manifest in the a person’s life

• about the unmet needs of a person and helps us tailor person centered strategies to address these during intervention

While conducting assessments we need information about (domains), a person’s unmet needs, the demands of their environment, the strength of the person’s relational resources and the elements of their experiences. (ACF 2021)