Response to commentary, "Trauma and the structuring of complex care: Back to the settlements?" by Elizabeth Bowen.
Response to commentary, "Trauma and the structuring of complex care: Back to the settlements?" by Elizabeth Bowen.
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对评论“创伤和复杂护理的构建:回到定居点?”的回应
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10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.09.023
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2017
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Burke,NancyJ
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Thompson-Lastad,Ariana;Yen,IreneH;Fleming,MarkD;VanNatta,Meredith;Rubin,Sara;Shim,JanetK;Burke,NancyJ
In our article,“Defining Trauma in Complex Care Management: Safety-Net Providers’ Perspectives on Structural Vulnerability and Time,” we present an ethnographic portrait of what trauma-informed care may look like in practice—even if not in name—in two complex care management (CCM) programs. Though the programs we study did not explicitly claim to provide trauma-informed care, observations of their daily practice highlighted the ways that their work fit with the domains outlined in Machtinger and colleagues’ trauma-informed primary care model (2015). We also illustrated how providers employed the concept of trauma in strategic ways that enabled them to incorporate structural determinants of health into the realm of clinical practice and medical care. In so doing, our ethnography serves, in some ways, as an example of the implementation of structural competency (Hansen et al. 2016) in a complex care setting.In her commentary on our article, Bowen suggests that health care providers should advocate for action that would address structural causes of trauma. We generally agree with her position, and our article shows why and how, given their particular position and role within healthcare institutions, CCM programs are able to work to address these root causes. We observed that CCM staff not only considered the effects of trauma on patients’ health and health-related behaviors, but attempted to ameliorate some of the underlying causes of patients’ trauma, for instance, by establishing stable housing and accessing adequate, healthy food. Examples of the latter described in the article include a CCM social worker helping a patient apply for food stamps; in other cases, we observed staff waiting in line with patients at food pantries, or even picking up food boxes from such sites and delivering them to patients’ homes.