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Article
Abstract
Professional development training designed to advance knowledge of the impacts of trauma and trauma-responsive practices for educators and counselors in schools and mental health settings have become common. Given the popularity of these training approaches, it is important to understand the potential impact on trauma-informed attitudes and beliefs. This descriptive, exploratory study examined changes in traumainformed care attitudes as a function of participating in a novel intervention designed to support trauma-informed practices in a sample of elementary school educators, administrators, and school mental health counselors (n=194) from one state in the Southeastern US. Positive changes in trauma-informed attitudes from pre to post training were found on the Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care scale (ARTIC-35). This study provides further evidence that such attitudes can shift over time in a positive direction among both educators and human services professionals. Implications of study findings for both research and practice are discussed.
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Publication Info
Published in Journal of Trauma Studies in Education, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2025, pages 65-81.
This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND).
APA Citation
Shapiro, C., Collins, C., Lee, K., Collier, T., & Sorensen, C. (2025). Preliminary Evaluation of a Brief Intervention to Enhance Trauma-Informed Attitudes Among Educators and School Mental Health Counselors. Journal of Trauma Studies in Education, 4(2), 2832–1731. https://doi.org/10.70085/jtse.v4i2.207
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