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A trauma-informed approach to library services / Rebecca Tolley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : ALA Editions, 2020Description: xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780838919811
  • 0838919812
Subject(s):
Contents:
Part I: Adverse childhood experiences and trauma-informed care -- Trauma and adverse childhood experiences -- The trauma-informed approach to service -- Trauma-informed care and libraries -- The trauma-informed library environment -- Part II: The six guiding principles of trauma-informed approaches -- Safety -- Trustworthiness and transparency -- Peer support -- Collaboration and mutuality -- Empowerment, voice, and choice -- Cultural, historical, and gender issues -- Part III: Creating a culture of trauma-informed care in libraries -- Assessing organizational readiness -- The library as sanctuary -- Becoming a trauma-informed library workforce -- Planning for trauma-informed services -- Appendix: Adverse childhood experiences questionnaire.
Summary: "This book applies a trauma-informed care framework to library services. This approach can foster empathetic service, positive patron encounters, and a trusting workplace"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: Psychological trauma can result from a single painful event, a prolonged event, recurrent events, or a series of ongoing, relentless stresses. Tolley applies a trauma-informed care framework to library services. This approach can foster empathetic service, positive patron encounters, and a trusting workplace. It can also help library workforces smooth over the rough edges when a staff member exhibits abrasive behavior, and can be a means of preventing burnout, secondary traumatization, and impaired functioning by staff. -- adapted from Prologue and Chapter 2.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

We are only now coming to terms with how common trauma really is; a landmark Kaiser study that surveyed patients receiving physicals found that almost two-thirds had experienced at least one form of abuse, neglect, or other trauma as a child. Though originating in the fields of health and social services, trauma-informed care is a framework that holds great promise for application to library work. Empathetic service, positive patron encounters, and a more trusting workplace are only a few of the benefits that this approach offers. In this important book Tolley, experienced in both academic and public libraries, brings these ideas into the library context. Library administrators, directors, and reference and user services staff will all benefit from learning

the six key principles of trauma-informed care; characteristics of a trusting and transparent library organization, plus discussion questions to promote a sense of psychological safety among library workers; how certain language and labels can undermine mutuality, with suggested phrases that will help library staff demonstrate neutrality to patron ideas and views during information requests; delivery models that empower patrons; advice on balancing free speech on campus with students' need for safety; how appropriate furniture arrangement can help people suffering from PTSD feel safe; guidance on creating safe zones for LGBTQIA+ children, teens, and adults; and self-assessment tools to support change toward trauma-responsive library services.

"This book applies a trauma-informed care framework to library services. This approach can foster empathetic service, positive patron encounters, and a trusting workplace"-- Provided by publisher.

Psychological trauma can result from a single painful event, a prolonged event, recurrent events, or a series of ongoing, relentless stresses. Tolley applies a trauma-informed care framework to library services. This approach can foster empathetic service, positive patron encounters, and a trusting workplace. It can also help library workforces smooth over the rough edges when a staff member exhibits abrasive behavior, and can be a means of preventing burnout, secondary traumatization, and impaired functioning by staff. -- adapted from Prologue and Chapter 2.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-162) and index.

Part I: Adverse childhood experiences and trauma-informed care -- Trauma and adverse childhood experiences -- The trauma-informed approach to service -- Trauma-informed care and libraries -- The trauma-informed library environment -- Part II: The six guiding principles of trauma-informed approaches -- Safety -- Trustworthiness and transparency -- Peer support -- Collaboration and mutuality -- Empowerment, voice, and choice -- Cultural, historical, and gender issues -- Part III: Creating a culture of trauma-informed care in libraries -- Assessing organizational readiness -- The library as sanctuary -- Becoming a trauma-informed library workforce -- Planning for trauma-informed services -- Appendix: Adverse childhood experiences questionnaire.

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