ACBHCS Provider Trauma Treatment Recommendations

The following list contains trauma treatments, interventions, and trauma aware approaches to care as identified by Alameda County providers and staff as effective and ones that they commonly use.

  • Active listening
  • Allowing individuals to choose what, when, or if they will disclose trauma
  • Anxiety reducing and self-soothing relaxation strategies
  • Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC)
  • Art therapy
  • Attachment-promoting interventions
  • Avoid restraint and seclusion
  • Be aware of what may cause re-traumatization
  • Breaking down problems into smaller bites
  • Breath work
  • Case management
  • Child parent psychotherapy
  • Cognitive behavioral interventions for trauma in schools
  • Collaborative assessment
  • Connecting individual with support group
  • Containing emotions
  • Creating and processing trauma narratives
  • Creating safety plans
  • Crisis intervention
  • Cultural rituals
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
  • Desensitization
  • Duncan’s outcome rating and session scale
  • Education about neurological impact
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
  • Emotional intelligence, emotional rapport practices
  • Empathic listening
  • Empathic witnessing
  • Empathy
  • Ensuring office is safe and welcoming
  • Exploring possibilities of hope and change
  • Feminist trauma informed practices
  • Filial therapy
  • Focus on building trust
  • Gather a person’s history
  • Greif Processing
  • Grounding techniques (for dissociation/anxiety, etc.)
  • Guided imagery
  • Harm reduction focus
  • Help clients find coping strategies that prevent them from hypo-hyper arousal
  • Holding/Teaching boundaries with clients
  • Incorporate spirituality
  • Incredible years
  • Individual, group, and family therapy using different mediums such as painting, drawing, collage, knitting, yoga, movement
  • Medical care and health education
  • Meditation
  • Meeting people where they are at
  • Mindfulness practices
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Offer to help in solving problems and collaborate together
  • Parents changing reactions to children’s behavior based on understanding basis of trauma
  • Play therapy
  • Practices that are linguistically and culturally informed
  • Practicing self care as provider and staff
  • Present focused techniques and practices
  • Psychoeducation about trauma
  • Psychotropic medication
  • Recognizing triggers
  • Referrals to additional behavioral health and other support
  • Relational therapy (for Trauma)
  • Resilience practices to help those manage during ongoing trauma or traumatic reactions
  • Seeking Safety
  • SITCAP model (Structured Sensory Interventions for Traumatized Children, Adolescents, and Parents)
  • Somatic practices
  • Speak gently
  • Strength-based conversation
  • Supportive counseling
  • Talk therapy
  • Teaching self-regulation techniques
  • Trauma assessment as part of intake
  • Validating individuals’ experience
  • Wellness and recovery oriented approaches
  • Writing activities
  • Yoga