Towards a “trauma-informed spaces of care” model: The example of services for homeless substance users

While clinical practitioners have long recognized the importance of trauma-informed models of care, geographies of care scholars have been slow to engage with and address trauma in its methodologies for better understanding environments that support, or hinder, care for people. Marrying the conceptual contributions of geographies of care, trauma geographies, and geographies of addiction, this paper aims to advance the inquiry of trauma-informed spaces of care. Drawing on the example of the homeless substance user, we present a novel theoretical imperative for considering trauma on both an individual and collective level for advancing spatial interventions for healing in spaces of care.

• Publication year

  2024

• Venue

  Progress in Human Geography

• Publication date

  2024-08-22

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Sociology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1177/03091325241269757PMID 39463884PMCID 11499048
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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