1st Edition

Implementing Psychologically Informed Environments and Trauma Informed Care Leadership Perspectives

Edited By Peter Cockersell, Sione Marshall Copyright 2025
218 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book gathers together the experiences of leaders across sectors, organisations and client groups to help readers introduce, develop, and maintain psychologically informed environments (PIE) and trauma informed care (TIC) within their workspaces. Featuring the voices of providers, commissioners, consultants, and trainers from the NHS, local authorities, and the voluntary sector, this unique... Read more

1.Psychologically Informed Environments and Services from an Organisational and Leadership Perspective

Sione Marshall

2.The Relationship between Psychologically Informed Environments and Trauma Informed Care, and what they mean for Organisational Leadership

Peter Cockersell

PIE Leadership/Implementation in Practice

3.Embedding PIE into Care Services: A Leadership Experience

Iain Boag

4.St Basils Psychologically Informed Environments

Amanda Skeate and Jean Templeton

5.PIE and Violence Against Women and Girls Work

Jennifer Cirone

6.Community Housing and Therapy

Andreas Constandinos, Anthony Jones, Jalil Kane and Iwona Munia

 7.Enabling Horizontalisation: Doing the Dance Differently

Natasha Berthollier, Geoff Dennis and  Rex Haigh

PIE and Organisational Development

8.Reflective Practice  - Contributions to Practice Development and Leadership.

Ali Curran

 9.Helping, harming and being harmed: understanding traumatised and traumatising organisations

Jo Prestidge

10.Psychologically Informed Leadership in a Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE): Learning and Reflections from Our Journey so Far…

Helen Miles

11.PIE as a Framework for implementing Trauma Informed and Strengths Based Approaches in a Local Authority

Claire Ritchie

 12 .Commissioning for PIEs – a journey, involving walking the walk and talking the talk – moving to psychologically informed commissioning

Victoria Aseervatham

 13.Some Themes and Recommendations

Peter Cockersell and Sione Marshall

 

Biography

Dr Peter Cockersell, is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and CEO of Community Housing and Therapy (CHT). He is a founding member of the Faculty of Homeless and Inclusion Health, and a co-author of the UK national guidance on psychologically informed environments (PIEs). He has published widely on homelessness, mental health, intercultural therapy and related issues.

Dr  Sione Marshall is an Independent Clinical Psychologist and organsisational consultant who has worked across  NHS, third sector and private settings for the past 30 years. Her current portfolio includes work with Pathway: Healthcare for homeless people and Canterbury Rough Sleeping Initiative.

 

'This book provides a toolkit for anyone working in health, social care and support services  to improve how we lead, manage, commission and deliver our services and in so doing, create psychologically informed environments (PIE) and trauma informed care (TIC).  Recognising how working with people who are traumatised and marginalised impacts on practitioners and organisations is only the starting point of ongoing journeys that evidence positive impact and outcomes for people and those who work with them. Contributors provide key messages on how to develop PIE and TIC - for practitioners, managers, and leaders, in voluntary and statutory organisations and for partnerships across whole systems.'

Dr Adi Cooper OBE, Consultant in Adult Safeguarding and Visiting Professor, University of Bedfordshire

'This new book is important for senior managers and commissioners grappling with the challenge of making services truly meet the needs of their clients. The authors bring a wide range of professional experience in the NHS, local authority and not-for-profit sectors, together with their wisdom and humanity, to describe how relational working from the top down is fundamental to putting the concept of being trauma or psychologically informed into practice.'

Alex Bax, Chief Executive at Pathway. 

'If you are leading or managing people in health and social care, then this is the book you should be reading. It invites you to place a magnifying glass on the relationships you cultivate and curate, and on the crucial role of relationships in delivering good quality health or social care services.  As organisations and their clients become more diverse, leaders need to ‘read the room’ and adapt their style to truly engage with their teams and get the best from their staff.'

Charlotte Sweeney OBE, Co-author of Inclusive Leadership and CEO of Charlotte Sweeney Associates