Trauma-Informed Care in Social Work Education Implications for Students, Educators, Pedagogy, and Field

Part 1: Conceptualizing Trauma
1. A Conceptualization of Trauma for Social Work Education
Jane E. Sanders and Stephanie L. Baird
2. Navigating Trauma: A Prerequisite for Social Work Excellence
Dana Hubbard
3. Understanding the Impact of Trauma on the Human Brain, Relationships, and Learning
Margriet de Zeeuw Wright
4. An Ecological Conceptualization and Healing-Centered Approach to Trauma: Implications for Social Work Education  
Evan M. Harris and Joseph L. Feldman
5. Integrating a Trauma-informed Perspective in the Generalist / Foundation Practice Curriculum
Carolyn Knight
6. Fostering Trauma-informed Relationships in Education: Recognition, Respect and Remembering
Louise Morley and Frances Crawford
7. Trauma-informed Approaches in Embodied Social Work
Arielle Dylan, Lea Tufford, and Ellen Katz
Part 2: Trauma and the Social Work Classroom
8. Special Considerations for Trauma-informed Online Teaching: Implications for Educators
Lia Marshall and Matthea Marquart 
9. Creating Safety and Community in the Classroom: Equipping a New Generation of Social Workers
Jane Middelton-Moz et al
10. An Integrated Trauma-informed and Anti-oppressive Framework Across Social Work Courses: Curriculum and Classroom Support
Johanna Creswell Báez et al
11. Spirituality, Trauma, and Healing-Centred Care
Heather Boynton and Indrani Margolin 
12. Promoting Trauma-Informed Practice in Social Work Education Through Experiential Learning Program
Rita Dhungel and Kathy Kim
13. Trauma-Informed Teaching during Triggering Times: COVID-19, Radical Violence and Revisiting the Importance of Naming Trauma
Lisa Henshaw
14. Trauma-informed Pedagogy and Online Social Work Education and Field Instruction
Colleen McMillan et al
15. Trauma-informed Simulation-based Learning: Considerations for Students and Standardized Clients
Lea Tufford, Sarah Tarshis, and Arielle Dylan
Part 3: Trauma and the Social Work Curriculum
16. Trauma-informed Teaching of Sensitive Subjects: Strategies for Instructors
Jessica D. Cless and Briana S. Nelson Goff
17. Social Work Education Curriculum Design: Applying a Feminist Informed Trauma Model
Susan Hillock
18. Fostering Critical, Reflective, Trauma-informed Social Work Education: A Polyvagal-informed Approach to Pedagogy
Sarah Pearson
19 Black and Indigenous Trauma and Ethics of Care in Neoliberal Registration
Dionisio Nyaga and Rose E. Cameron  
Part 4: Trauma and Social Work Field Education
20. Trauma and Social Work Field Education: Supporting Students, Instructors, and our Team
Angela Judge-Stasiak et al
21. Trauma and Field Education
June Kirkland-Smith
22. Preparation, Integration and Practice: A Field Placement Model for Creating Resiliency and Longevity in the Social Workers of Tomorrow
Suvi Teigen
Part 5: Promoting Trauma-Informed Care through Educational Policy and Community Involvement and Research
23. Structural Violence, Trauma and the Pursuit of Happiness
Hugh Shewell
24. Homelessness Research and Vicarious Traumatization: Preparing Students for Social Work Research and Practice with Diverse Populations
Jordan Goodwin
25. Creating a Trauma-Informed School of Social Work: Curriculum, Policies and Practices, and University-Community Partnerships
Susan A. Green et al
26. Universal Design and Trauma-Informed Teaching: Integration, Inclusion, and Social Justice
Britt E. Rhodes
Part 6: Trauma-Support Services for Social Work Students, Staff, and Educators
27. Systemic Self-Care
Lori Gauthier
28 “Let’s Get Physical”: Integrating Trauma-Informed Physical Activity into Social Work Education
Tasnim Nathoo and Danya Rogen 
29. Relational Impacts: Trauma-related Risk, Protection, Social Work Practice and Education
Denise Michelle Brend and Ginny Sprang
30. Why Students Enter Social Work: Embracing the “Wounded Healer”
Debashis Dutta
Part 7: Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions 
31. Summary and Implications
Arielle Dylan and Lea Tufford  

Biography

Lea Tufford, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Social Work at Laurentian University, Ontario. Her research interests include social work education, child abuse and neglect, eco-social work, and contemplative practices.

Arielle Dylan, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Social Work at St. Thomas University. Her research interests include spirituality and social work, eco-social work, and contemplative practices in direct practice with individuals and groups.

"In this era of heightened interest in trauma-informed care, social work students, educators, and professionals can easily be overwhelmed and confused by the information available. This book is the answer. It provides thorough, compelling, well-researched, and clinically based information to navigate this important area of study.  From conceptual theories and models to strategies for best designing and implementing social work curriculum, practice, and policy, this must-read book provides the broad and robust perspective needed to transform social work education."

Delphine Collin- Vézina, Ph.D, is a professor at the School of Social Work, McGill University       

"This work has breadth and depth and has practice relevant insights into the significance of trauma informed practice within the profession. Highly recommended for scholars, students, and practitioners of social work alike."

John Graham, Ph.D., RSW, is a professor at the School of Social Work, University of British Columbia

"In our modern world, the majority of people will be exposed to at least one traumatic event in the course of our lifetimes. A compassionate approach to care asks us to recognize the social and cultural contexts of traumatic events while also addressing the impact on our bodies, brains, and emotional processing capacities. This volume of trauma-informed care for social work education is an invaluable resource for all students and educators allowing you to not only provide excellence in your care for others but ensure that you preserve your own embodied well-being as you serve your community."

Arielle Schwartz, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, founder of Resilience Informed Therapy, and author of The Complex PTSD Workbook

"In this incredibly thorough, thoughtful, and timely book, editors Lea Tufford and Arielle Dylan have assembled a dream team of leading voices in social work education to provide the most complete, in depth and rigorous approach imaginable to the pressing challenge of integrating trauma-informed principles of care into all aspects of social work education. Anyone and everyone involved in educating, training and supervising social workers for the complex challenges of recognizing and skillfully treating trauma in its intersecting individual, collective, structural and intergenerational dimensions will benefit enormously from this groundbreaking contribution."

Joseph J. Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D., Academic Director, Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in Epidemiology, Weill Cornell Medical College