Trauma-enhanced: Competencies

These competencies will help you identify a combination of skills, knowledge, behaviours and attributes that will support effective practice at this level.

People working at a trauma-enhanced level will:

  • Work to provide individuals or families a consistent approach across the range of organisations that they access, to ensure that there is no wrong door to accessing helpful support and recognising when an individual or family are overwhelmed by trauma related responses
  • Understand when it may be helpful to ask about a person’s experiences and feeling confident about how to ask about traumatic experiences or adversity, and how to helpfully respond to this
  • Collaboratively support people to use a range of grounding and other individually tailored techniques to enable them to return to within their window of tolerance
  • Collaboratively consider the ways in which coping strategies may no longer be helpful/have become actively unhelpful
  • Support people to develop an individualised approach to understanding their strengths and trauma-related responses, and coping strategies.