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Citation |
Thompson-Lastad A, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Van Natta M, Rubin S, Shim JK, Burke NJ. Soc. Sci. Med. 2017; 186: 104-112. |
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Affiliation |
UC Merced Department of Public Health, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, Classroom & Office Building, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343, USA; Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California St., Suite 485, San Francisco, CA 94143-0850, USA. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2017, Elsevier Publishing) |
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PMID |
28618290 |
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Abstract |
In this paper, we delineate how staff of two complex care management (CCM) programs in urban safety net hospitals in the United States understand trauma. We seek to (1) describe how staff in CCM programs talk about trauma in their patients' lives; (2) discuss how trauma concepts allow staff to understand patients' symptoms, health-related behaviors, and responses to care as results of structural conditions; and (3) delineate the mismatch between long-term needs of patients with histories of trauma and the short-term interventions that CCM programs provide. Observation and interview data gathered between February 2015 and August 2016 indicate that CCM providers define trauma expansively to include individual experiences of violence such as childhood abuse and neglect or recent assault, traumatization in the course of accessing health care and structural violence. Though CCM staff implement elements of trauma-informed care, the short-term design of CCM programs puts pressure on the staff to titrate their efforts, moving patients towards graduation or discharge. Trauma concepts enable clinicians to name structural violence in clinically legitimate language. As such, trauma-informed care and structural competency approaches can complement each other. Language: en |
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Keywords |
Chronic illness; Complex care management; Social determinants of health; Structural competency; Trauma; Trauma-informed care; United States |