Name
Permission to Pivot: Bringing Trauma-Informed Care into the Exam Room. Modeled Role-Plays on Trauma in Integrated Care
Description

This session aims to dismantle the outdated belief that trauma cannot be effectively addressed within the time constraints of integrated primary/specialty care. Through three live roleplays—covering the warm handoff, patient education, and active intervention—experienced clinicians will provide a "how-to" roadmap for real-world implementation. Attendees will leave with the explicit permission and practical examples needed to bridge the gap between evidence-based theory and daily clinical practice, appropriate to the pace and flow of work in the medical setting, and with time to consider implementation in their setting and provision of trauma resources for patient/family dialogue and further clinical training.

Speakers
Travis Cos, PhD, ABPP
Roberta Vena, LCSW
Alexis Lawless, LPC, CCTP
Content Level
All Audience
Tags
Primary Care Behavioral Health Model, Social determinants of health or SDoH, Workforce development
Session Type
Concurrent
Objective 1
Identify from role-play how to receive and start a warm handoff in a trauma-informed and receptive manner.
Objective 2
Describe how to explain trauma and its treatment in relatable narrative and metaphors
Objective 3
Discuss how the role-play demonstrates how to guide a person through the initial session of an integrated care appropriate trauma approach
Content Reference 1

Bulford, E., Baloch, S., Neil, J., & Hegarty, K. (2024). Primary healthcare practitioners’ perspectives on trauma-informed primary care: A systematic review. BMC primary care, 25(1), 336.

Content Reference 2

Dawson, R. L., Calear, A. L., McCallum, S. M., McKenna, S., Nixon, R. D., & O'Kearney, R. (2021). Exposure‐based writing therapies for subthreshold and clinical posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 34(1), 81-91.

Content Reference 3

Ellinghaus, C., Truss, K., Liao Siling, J., Phillips, L., Eastwood, O., Medrano, C., & Bendall, S. (2021). “I'm tired of being pulled from pillar to post”: A qualitative analysis of barriers to mental health care for trauma‐exposed young people. Early intervention in psychiatry, 15(1), 113-122.

Content Reference 4

Gibbs, S. I. (2019). The thespian client: The benefits of role-playing teaching techniques in psychology. American Journal of Applied Psychology, 8(5), 98-104.

Content Reference 5

Kutz, I., Resnik, V., & Dekel, R. (2008). The effect of single-session modified EMDR on acute stress syndromes. Journal of EMDR Practice and research, 2(3), 190-200. Shepardson, R. L., Fletcher, T. L., Funderburk, J. S., Weisberg, R. B., Beehler, G. P., & Maisto, S. A. (2023). Barriers to and facilitators of using evidence-based, cognitive–behavioral anxiety interventions in integrated primary care practice. Psychological Services, 20(4), 709.