Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index.
Contents:
It starts with a dream -- Turning imagination into reality : a vision of health -- Growth and change : isn't this the whole point? -- Commitment to democracy -- Commitment to nonviolence -- Commitment to emotional intelligence -- Commitment to social learning -- Commitment to open communication -- Commitment to social responsibility -- Pulling it all together.
Summary:
ss of understanding itself"--Provided by publisher. social learning, democracy, open communication, social responsibility, and growth and change. The Sanctuary Model is not a clinical intervention; rather, it is a method for creating an organizational culture that can more effectively provide a cohesive context within which healing from psychological and socially derived forms of traumatic experience can be addressed. Chapters are organized around the seven Sanctuary commitments, providing step-by-step, realistic guidance on creating and sustaining fundamental change."Restoring Sanctuary" is a roadmap to recovery for our nation's systems of care. It explores the notion that organizations are living systems themselves and as such they manifest various degrees of health and dysfunction, analogous to those of individuals. Becoming a truly trauma-informed system therefore requires a process of reconstitution within helping organizations, top to bottom. A system cannot be truly trauma-informed unless the system can create and sustain a proce ss of understanding itself"--Provided by publisher.
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