Trauma-Informed Process, step by step
Principles for how a process is run, not a treatment.
- RecogniseAssume trauma may affect memory, engagement and behaviour.
- ExplainSet out what happens next and what the person can choose.
- AdaptAdjust pace, setting and questioning to how the person is coping.
- ReferConnect to support that does not depend on the case continuing.
- ReviewRevisit needs as the case moves, not only at the outset.
Educational reference. This describes process principles used by services. It is not clinical guidance and not a treatment plan.
Questions about the Trauma-Informed Process poster
- What’s on the Trauma-Informed Process poster?
- 5 numbered steps. Principles for how a process is run, not a treatment. Recognise — Assume trauma may affect memory, engagement and behaviour.; Explain — Set out what happens next and what the person can choose.; Adapt — Adjust pace, setting and questioning to how the person is coping.; Refer — Connect to support that does not depend on the case continuing.; Review — Revisit needs as the case moves, not only at the outset.. Educational reference. This describes process principles used by services. It is not clinical guidance and not a treatment plan.
- Who is the Trauma-Informed Process poster for?
- Trauma-Informed Process belongs to the Criminal Justice section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning victimology can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Trauma-Informed Process poster?
- Use it as a set of process principles, not as anything clinical. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Trauma-Informed Process belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Trauma-Informed Process?
- Secondary Victimisation, Domestic Abuse Response and Fear of Crime sit alongside Trauma-Informed Process in the Criminal Justice section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Secondary VictimisationDomestic Abuse ResponseFear of Crime
- Is the Trauma-Informed Process poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Trauma-Informed Process downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Criminal Justice section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Trauma-Informed Process poster print at?
- Trauma-Informed Process is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Trauma-Informed Process loses nothing.Printing guide
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