Caron’s Approach to Trauma-Informed Care
We prioritize a trauma-informed approach to make sure our patients feel safe, supported, and empowered throughout their recovery process. Inpatient trauma-informed care means recognizing the widespread impact of trauma and integrating this understanding into every aspect of the treatment environment.
Safety and Trust: Creating a physically and emotionally safe environment for all patients.
Empowerment: Engaging patients in their recovery process, ensuring they feel in control of their treatment.
Collaboration and Peer Support: Encouraging teamwork between patients and staff, and using peer support groups for shared experiences and validation.
Personalized Treatment Plans
Every Caron treatment program begins with a comprehensive assessment. Based on that assessment and the patient’s readiness, the treatment team then determines a specific treatment plan with therapies to meet each patient's unique needs, including trauma treatment if indicated.
Trauma Treatment Programs at Caron
While all trauma treatment at Caron is founded on an evidence-based, compassionate approach, trauma services vary for different programs at Caron.
Renaissance Program
Modalities for the Renaissance Program in Florida include:
- Prolonged exposure therapy (PET), a type of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that helps to decrease symptoms
- Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) to deal with and decrease trauma symptoms
- Neurofeedback, a brain-based therapy that gives patients a way to regulate dysfunctional activity and reinforce healthy brain function
- Holistic therapies such as mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), yoga, breath work, and physical activity
Ocean Drive Program
Trauma-informed practices for the Ocean Drive Program in Florida include:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help change distorted thinking patterns
- Emotional freedom technique, a research-based intervention that can regulate the autonomic nervous system, which triggers the body’s fight, flight, or freeze response
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) to reduce the impact of the traumatic memories and the emotions associated with them
- Narrative therapy, which uses stories as a way to help patients identify and harness their strengths to resolve issues
- Safe and Sound Protocol to help regulate the nervous system
- Trauma group therapy and peer support to process trauma, work on issues such as family of origin and generational themes that affect trauma, and gain validation
- Holistic therapies such as therapeutic massage, energy work, acupuncture, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), and yoga
Mental Health Program
Modalities for the Mental Health Program in Florida include:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help change distorted thinking patterns
- Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) to deal with and decrease trauma symptoms
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), if clinically indicated
- Trauma groups to help patients better understand trauma’s impact and stabilization and processing techniques
- Holistic therapies such as art therapy, breath work, mindfulness meditation, yoga, physical activity, and equine therapy
Grand View Program
Trauma treatment for the Grand View Program in Pennsylvania includes:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive processing therapy (CPT)
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
- Holistic therapies such as mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and yoga
Older Adult Programs
Trauma treatment for the Older Adult Programs in Florida and Pennsylvania includes:
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), if clinically indicated
- Psychoeducational groups
- Holistic therapies such as trauma-sensitive yoga and art therapy
Core Programs
These programs in Pennsylvania for women, men, young adults, LGBTQIA+ individuals, legal professionals, healthcare professionals, and relapse patients offer trauma-informed care. Trauma-informed care takes into account a patient’s life experiences as part of assessment and treatment and ensures a treatment environment that is safe.
