Module 4: Related Practice Issues: Trauma-Informed Care, Supporting Strength – based and Resiliency Approaches, Primordial Prevention
Welcome to Module 4: Related Practice Issues: Trauma-Informed Care, Supporting Strength – based and Resiliency Approaches, Primordial Prevention
In this fourth module, the overall goal is to encourage healthcare practitioners (HCPs) to self-reflect and learn more about Indigenous socio-cultural and structural contexts related to Indigenous women’s cardiovascular & stroke illness (CVD/s).
Important objectives related to the achievement of this goal include raising awareness about key barriers/issues and identifying how health professional licensing bodies’ policy and guidelines for CVD/s related standards of care, and core competencies are either lacking or include a limited focus on Indigenous women’s heart illness.
Finally, key concepts related to the provision of culturally safe approaches to care are identified. These include trauma-Informed care, anti-oppression & anti-racism; supporting strength – based and resiliency approaches and primordial prevention.
The learning outcomes for this module are about understanding the following key factors related to Indigenous health and well-being:
- Wholistic approach to health: balanced, wholistic approach to wellness; the 4 quadrants of wellness (spiritual, physical, emotional, mental)
- Trauma informed care: An Indigenous Trauma Informed Approach recognizes the social historical impacts that have disrupted Anishinaabe Bimatisiwin (Indigenous life), and the revitalization of this worldview that naturally encompasses strategies of anti-oppression, non-interference and client self-determination.
- Emerging policy reform as enabler to Indigenous women/family healthcare – i.e. Jordan’s Principle; Joyce’s Principle
- Primordial prevention and how the structure of one’s health care practice enables or limits primordial prevention through consideration of a range of risk factors.
