Pediatric Trauma-Informed Care and Implications for Occupational Therapy Practitioners

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Pediatric Trauma-Informed Care and Implications for Occupational Therapy Practitioners

Presenter: Quaneka Hoskin-Chase, MS, OTR/L

Session Description: 

The presentation will cover trauma-informed care and the need for education among OT practitioners in the pediatric setting. It will cover a history of mental health, the shifts in how mental health services are carried out, a literature review of need, information on TIC, and how the information can be integrated into pediatric OT services. This information is necessary for practitioners in all settings, but especially those who work with children and families, to support their needs through traumatic experiences and promote healthy childhood development and family dynamics.

Course Objectives

1. Summarize and describe trauma-informed care (TIC) and its implications in occupational therapy and the pediatric setting
2. Identify the six core trauma-informed principles and explain how to utilize them
3. Apply trauma-informed elements skillfully into the intervention and treatment planning when working with children and their families.

Speaker Bio

Quaneka Hoskin-Chase has over 19 years of experience as an occupational therapist practitioner. She is a Texan, born and raised, but has lived in some amazing places. She has worked for some of the largest school districts in Georgia, California, Texas, and Nevada. Quaneka currently works for Clark County School District, working with students from three to 21 years of age with varying developmental, cognitive, and physical disabilities. She also works part-time, completing home-health OT services, working with medically fragile children, and is gaining experience completing telehealth services for students in charter schools. Quaneka is passionate about mental health and promoting services and equity within underserved populations. She has worked for and completed fieldwork studies in a domestic violence shelter, an adult day and transitional program for the intellectually disabled and those with psychiatric disorders, at-risk youth shelters, and a public, level-one trauma hospital. Quaneka graduated from Texas Tech University, with a B.A. in Psychology and a B.S./M.S. from Brenau University in Gainesville, GA. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and is eager and excited to successfully complete her studies. She enjoys spending time with her husband, three children (7, 5, and 6 months), and our firstborn, our dog, Lexi. She loves to travel, especially with her family's camper, going to new places and meeting new people. She's an avid runner, triathlete, and lover of most activities outdoors.

References

Chizimba, B. (2021). Assessing the knowledge and skills gap for adverse childhood experiences (aces) and trauma-informed practice in children and young people’s services across the education, health, care and voluntary sector. Adoption & Fostering, 45(1), 105–111. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308575921995439

Forkey, H., Inkelas, M., Ocampo, A., Lopez, N., Vizueta, N., Griffin, J. L., Crane, M. A., Hurley, T. P., Balaban, Z., Shah, A., & Szilagyi, M. A. (2021). Pediatric approach to trauma treatment and resilience—A novel relationship-based curriculum and approach to train pediatric professionals to provide trauma-informed care. Academic Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2021.07.023

Hornor, G., Davis, C., Sherfield, J., & Wilkinson, K. (2019). Trauma-informed care: Essential elements for pediatric health care. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 33(2), 214–221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedhc.2018.09.009