What is Trauma?
SAMHSA describes individual trauma as an event or circumstance resulting in: physical harm, emotional harm, and/or life-threatening harm.
Individual trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.
What is Trauma?
SAMHSA describes individual trauma as an event or circumstance resulting in: physical harm, emotional harm, and/or life-threatening harm.
Individual trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.
Who Do I Contact for Support?
Contact your District Superintendent for support and resources.
Trauma-Informed Resources for Church Leaders
Becoming a Trauma Informed Faith Community – List of books and online resources to help churches do ministry with those impacted by trauma.
Coping with Emotional and Psychological Trauma (PDF guide)
Introduction to Trauma Informed Care for Nonprofits (traumafreeworld.org)
TraumaInSight – virtual training for youth-serving professionals and volunteers
Trauma-Informed Resources for Churches
The Trauma Response Wheel – individual and group use. The Trauma Wheel is intended to bring understanding to things you may have experienced or are currently experiencing after a traumatic event.
The Trauma Response Wheel (Spanish)
Creating Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms by Katie Statman-Weil
Trauma-Informed Volunteers (traumafreeworld.org)
Media
The Wisdom of Trauma (film)
The Body Keeps Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (book)
Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies by Renee Linklater (book)
Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe (book)
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem (book)
Healing Trauma with James Finley: Exploring the Contemplative Dimensions of Healing Trauma (MP3)
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz, PhD
