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<div><div><div>Part 1. Introduction.-&nbsp;Chapter 1: Introduction to the Principles of Trauma-informed Ethical Practice.-&nbsp;Part 2. Attachment and Developmental Considerations.-&nbsp;Chapter 2: Ethical Decision-making from a Trauma-informed, Developmental Lens: Attachment and Developmental Considerations.-&nbsp;Chapter 3: Attachment and Developmental Concerns in Trauma Treatment.-&nbsp;Part 3. Physiological and Neurobiological Changes.-&nbsp;Chapter 4: Trauma-related Physiological & Neurobiological Changes: Implications for Ethical Treatment.-&nbsp;Part 4. Intergenerational and Historical Trauma.-&nbsp;Chapter 5: Intergenerational and Historical Trauma.-&nbsp;Part 5. Marginalization Stress.-&nbsp;Chapter 6: Honoring the Impact of Racial Trauma and Marginalization Stress in Trauma-informed Ethical Decision-making.-&nbsp;Chapter 7: Marginalization Stress: Hate, Violence, and Microaggressions.-&nbsp;Chapter 8: Trauma-Informed Ethics & Marginalization Stress.-&nbsp;Part 6. Cognitive Schema.-&nbsp;Chapter 9: Breaking Down to Build Up: Exploring the Interconnection between Cognitions, Emotions, and Beliefs in Ethical Trauma Treatment.-&nbsp;Chapter 10: The Role of Cognitive Schema in Trauma-Informed Care.-&nbsp;Part 7. Self-Concept.-&nbsp;Chapter 11: Self-Concept and Trauma-informed Ethics.-&nbsp;Chapter 12: The Transformation of the Self-concept Due to Abuse and Adversity.-&nbsp;Part 8. Protective Behaviors.-&nbsp;Chapter 13: Through Rose-Colored Glasses: How Protective Behaviors Impact Trauma-Informed Decision-Making.-&nbsp;Chapter 14: Trauma-Informed Ethics in Supervision: Self-protective Behaviors.-&nbsp;Part 9. Family and Community.-&nbsp;Chapter 15: Family & Community’s Role in the Experience of Trauma, and Post-trauma Healing: Ethical Implications for the Helping Professionals.-&nbsp;Part 10. Helping Provider Health and Wellbeing.-&nbsp;Chapter 16: Trauma-informed Ethics: Relational Cultural Theory, and Implications for Helping Provider Health and Wellbeing&nbsp; .-&nbsp;Chapter 17: Workplace Hazards in Trauma-informed Practice: Ensuring Helping Provider Health and Wellbeing.-&nbsp;Chapter 18: Navigating Occupational Hazards: Supporting Helping Provider Health and Wellbeing.-&nbsp;Chapter 19: The Impact of Client Trauma on Helping Provider Health and Wellbeing: Cultivating Wellness.-&nbsp;Part 11. Military, Veteran, and Law Enforcement Status & History.-&nbsp;Chapter 20: Honoring the Cultural Norms and Experiences of Military, Veteran, and Law Enforcement Clients.-&nbsp;Chapter 21: Trauma–informed Ethics with First Responders, and Veterans.</div></div><div><br></div></div>

<p><b><i>Cortny Stark</i></b><br></p>

<p>Dr. Cortny Stark (she, her, hers) is an Assistant Professor, and the Substance Use and Recovery Counseling program coordinator with the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Department of Counseling and Human Services. She is also a telehealth therapist with the Trauma Treatment Center and Research Facility, providing trauma reprocessing and integration, clinical services for substance use and process addictions, and supporting transgender and gender-expansive youth. In addition to her role as a clinician, Dr. Stark provides supervision for provisionally licensed counselors seeking their Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC) credential, is a Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) member, and facilitates nationwide trainings with the Motivational Interviewing Training Center out of Albuquerque, NM. Dr. Stark’s research utilizes qualitative and mixed methods, and focuses on LGBTQQIA+ issues in counseling, leader development, integrative approaches to trauma reprocessing and integration, trauma-informed care, and substance use and recovery.</p>

<p><b><i>Jose “Joey” Tapia Jr</i></b></p>

<p>Dr. Jose Luis Tapia Jr. (he, him, his) is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. He graduated with his PhD in counseling at the University of North Texas. His research is focused on disability-responsive care across the lifespan. Dr. Tapia has been highlighted for her service by the American Counseling Association with the Arthur A. Hitchcock Distinguished Professional Service Award, the Outstanding Graduate Student Leadership Award by ACES, and Doctoral Student of the Year from the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association.</p>

<p>Dr. Tapia has served the community in public and private rehabilitation settings as well as, in private and community practice for 10 years. He has provided individual, relationship, play, and family therapy with a special focus in serving people with disabilities in three languages (English, Spanish, and American Sign Language). He is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Play Therapist, and National Certified Counselor. Additionally, he is a Certified Child-Centered Play Therapist-Supervisor, and Certified Child-Parent Relationship Therapy-Supervisor and has advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy.</p>

<p><b><i>Kylie Rogalla</i></b></p>

<p>Dr. Kylie Rogalla (she, her, hers) is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Counseling and Human Services at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.&nbsp; She has been a Counselor Educator in CACREP master’s-level programs for 11 years, as well as a telemental health counselor with BetterHelp.com for the past six years.&nbsp; Dr. Rogalla began her professional journey as a Professional School Counselor, collected clinical credentials as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), expanded into the realm of substance use treatment with a Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselor (LCAC) endorsement, and secured the Board Certified Telemental Health (BC-TMH) provider credential to support her virtual practice.&nbsp; Kylie specializes in crisis and trauma work, pedagogy, and research, originating in her roles within emergency crisis shelters for families experiencing intimate partner violence, as well as alternative high school programs serving underrepresented populations. Her additional research passions include anticipatory and disenfranchised grief, with a widened emphasis on personal and posttraumatic growth. </p>

<p><b><i>Kate Bunch </i></b></p>

<p>Kate Bunch (she, her, hers) is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in New Mexico.&nbsp;&nbsp; She is also a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor (RPT-S), an Endorsed Infant Mental Health provider (IMHE-III) and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant.&nbsp; She has engaged in continuing education around the treatment of trauma through somatic, attachment, and multidisciplinary approaches.&nbsp; Kate has used her training to support children and adolescents in regaining trust in their attachments to caregivers and families to develop shared goals and communication strategies. </p>

<p>Kate has developed a clinic, Trauma Treatment Center, in New Mexico that delivers treatment to address trauma across the lifespan and has had her model of therapy published in the <i>Journal of Counselor Practice </i>and the <i>Journal of Trauma Studies in Education</i>.&nbsp; She also works with multiple universities to continue to study the impact of treatment and innovative treatment practices. </p>

<p>Kate owns Mind Body Trauma Institute, which is based in New Mexico. Mind Body Trauma Institute’s primary focus is to support the training and development of providers across genres from a holistic and trauma-focused approach. Offering training that focuses on understanding trauma from any field, trauma treatment in mental health, and the lasting effect of traumaon providers themselves.&nbsp; MBTI will support the ongoing conceptualization of treatment with consultation for interested providers.&nbsp; MBTI wants collaboration across professional fields to primarily focus on treating trauma within communities, focusing on developing and supporting a peer support network and community for all trauma-focused providers. </p>

<p>Kate is the founder of The Jackie Project, a non-profit started in honor of her Grandmother that supports education and literacy for social-emotional development with children.&nbsp; The Jackie Project is developing ways to increase access to treatment for underserved areas in New Mexico.&nbsp; Additionally, they are working to support continued efforts in complex trauma research. </p>

Kate had been awarded the George R. Keppler 2019 Outstanding Counselor of the Year from the New Mexico Counseling Association and the Behavioral Health Worker - Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Excellence Award for 2023 from The Children’s Law Institute.&nbsp;<p></p><br><p></p>

Profe<i>ssional’s Guide to Trauma-informed Ethical Decision Making</i>&nbsp;offers helping professionals a framework comprising the 10 Principles of Trauma-informed Ethical Practice (Stark, Tapia-Fuselier, & Bunch, 2022) enhanced with prominent ethical decision making models. These principles build upon the SAMHSA (2014) conceptualization of trauma-informed care, address key concepts such as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their long-term impact, marginalization stress, the influence of military and law enforcement experience, and others.<br> <br><div>Despite distinctions between the diversity of helping professions (in credentials, scope of practice, and theoretical approach), the same decision making models for trauma-informed care is a requirement for best practice. Thus, this volume is designed to address the needs of professionals serving diverse clientele, particularly those who’ve experienced trauma and adversity. Practitioners may utilize this text to as a guide to assist with ethical decision making when working with client survivors of trauma, and educators may select this text as required reading to support the development of trauma-informed clinicians-in-training.</div><br><div><p><i>Professionals working with mental health and substance use disorders are confronted routinely with multi systemic factors influencing&nbsp;the presenting concerns,&nbsp;including complex trauma, cultural tenets and practices, and societal stigmatizations.&nbsp; It is important for professionals to have a clear understanding of the ethical implications for the work they do. This comprehensive and cutting-edge text&nbsp;</i><i>—</i><i>&nbsp;Professional's Guide to Trauma-informed Decision Making&nbsp;</i><i>—</i><i>&nbsp;is a must read because it offers a practical and indispensable&nbsp;roadmap on how to navigate presenting concerns well, while remaining client-centered, trauma-informed, and ethical.</i></p>

<p><i>&nbsp;—&nbsp;<b>Mita M Johnson,</b> Ed.D.&nbsp;NCC, LPC, LMFT, LAC, MAC, SAP, ACS, LMFT-S,&nbsp;BCTHP</i></p></div>

Practical, up to date manual for counselors and psychotherapists A unique resource that provides keys to best practice Applicable to a variety of mental health disciplines

<i>Professionals working with mental health and substance use disorders are confronted routinely with multisystemic factors influencing&nbsp;the presenting concerns,&nbsp;including complex trauma, cultural tenets and practices, and societal stigmatizations.&nbsp; It is important for professionals to have a clear understanding of the ethical implications for the work they do. This comprehensive and cutting-edge text -&nbsp;Professional's Guide to Trauma-informed Decision-making&nbsp;- is a must read because it offers a practical and indispensable&nbsp;roadmap on how to navigate presenting concerns well, while remaining client-centered, trauma-informed, and ethical.</i><p><i>&nbsp;—&nbsp;<b>Mita M Johnson,</b>&nbsp;Ed.D.&nbsp;NCC, LPC, LMFT, LAC, MAC, SAP, ACS, LMFT-S,&nbsp;BCTHP</i></p><p><br></p>

<p><i>The Professionals’ Guide to Trauma-Informed Decision Making masterfully illuminates the profound connection between trauma and mental health, emphasizing the far-reaching implications on both individual lives and systemic structures. This comprehensive guide underscores the pivotal role counselor educators play in equipping counselors-in-training with a robust ethical decision-making framework that adeptly navigates the intricate terrain of trauma's impact.</i></p>

<p><i>The authors do an excellent job of articulating the Principles of Trauma-informed Ethical Practice in an approachable and scholarly informed manner. These principles serve as a beacon, guiding helping professionals through the complexities of ethical decision-making while concurrently addressing the pervasive influence of complex trauma and other life adversities. The authors skillfully interweave these principles with established and accessible frameworks, creating a harmonious synthesis that proves invaluable in the field. The book is a compass for navigating the complexities of trauma, fostering resilience, and promoting ethical practice.</i></p>

<p><i>In sum, this book is an indispensable resource for both novice and seasoned professionals seeking to enhance their skills within the context of trauma. It is a valuable contribution that transcends disciplinary boundaries, elevating the discourse on trauma and ethical practice in the helping professions.</i></p>

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<p><i>—&nbsp;<b>Joseph Wehrman</b>, Ph.D.&nbsp;Professor of Counseling and Human Services,&nbsp;University of Colorado Colorado Springs,&nbsp;Board Chair, Emeritus,&nbsp;National Board for Certified Counselors</i></p><p></p><i></i><p></p>