Trauma-Informed Practices for Higher Education

Recommendations to prompt effective actions, investments, and innovations promoting the well-being of young people of color in higher education and the workforce.

Provides potentially, life-saving information for people and loved ones who are experiencing mental health crises.

Discusses research on how college students may respond to being exposed to stressful or traumatic experiences with cognitive and behavioral manifestations of work avoidance, learned helplessness, or low self-efficacy.

Provides research and suggestions for implementing research-based strategies to meet the needs of trauma-affected learners on campus and in the classroom. The final section discusses the importance of selfcare for educators to avoid re-traumatization, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue.

Provides guidance for equitable assessment in higher education, looking beyond the pandemic.

Presents finding of study on faculty as they fulfill this increasingly important role in addressing the mental health of all students on campus, especially during Covid-19.

Includes information on mental health and health inequity,

Information on how to support student groups who are disproportionately affected by the pandemic.

Qualitative data gathered from public services and health agencies providers and staff.

Overviews relevant federal legislation and liability concerns, highlights trends in counseling center practices, and offers
recommendations for campus mental health policies and practices.

Discusses resources and approaches related to trauma and safety, for College Admissions administrators and staff.

Extensive manual for implementing and sustaining trauma-informed care practices in organizations.

Brief but valuable description of principles and components of trauma-informed care.

Thoughtfully edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, this rich and diverse collection by academics and professionals from across 17 countries and many disciplines offers a variety of answers to this question. It addresses the need to set new values for universities, trapped today in narratives dominated by financial incentives and performance indicators, and examines those “wicked” problems which need multiple solutions, resolutions, experiments, and imaginaries. Includes author read chapters. Winner of the 2024 Open Education Award for Excellence.

Overview of PTSD and Complex PTSD in college students, with focus on Veterans.

Slides providing background on types of trauma and strategies for teaching with various levels of trauma in mind. Also covers self-care.

Slides of research and recommendations for college employees.

Slides focusing on online teaching during the Pandemic.