Expanding the Trauma-Informed Care Measurement Toolkit: An Evaluation of the Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC-45) Scale with SUD Workers in PIMH 2023

Findings suggest that measuring TIC attitudes and beliefs may vary according to field of practice and ethno-racially diverse workers.

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MDPI Abstract Excerpt: Human service organizations (HSO) have increasingly recognized the value of employing trauma-informed care (TIC) in a variety of practice settings. Evidence suggests that effectively adopting TIC has shown client improvements. Organizational barriers to TIC implementation, however, exist.

To improve TIC practice, the attitudes related to trauma-informed care (ARTIC) scale was developed to measure staff attitudes and beliefs towards TIC. The ARTIC has been widely adopted by researchers without evaluating its psychometric performance in diverse practice settings.

The purpose of this study was to independently validate the ARTIC scale drawn from a sample of staff (n = 373) who provide services to substance-using parents…

Expanding the Trauma-Informed Care Measurement Toolkit: An Evaluation of the Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC-45) Scale with SUD Workers in PIMH June 2023 by  Alicia Mendez 1,*, Emily A. Bosk 1, Amanda Keller 2 Abigail Williams-Butler 1, Tareq Hardan 2, Debra J. Ruisard 3 and Michael J. MacKenzie 2 School of Social Work, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA, School of Social Work, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1B9, Canada, The Center for Great Expectations, Somerset, NJ 08873, USA (This article belongs to the Special Issue New Perspectives on Trauma-Responsive Care)

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July 4, 2023