American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

The trauma-informed principles that you then tend to apply are things like promoting physical and emotional psychological safety, fostering trust, fostering transparency, thinking about and promoting inclusion, leveling hierarchy, which can be super complicated in healthcare, So seeking opportunities for peer support and mutual support, empowerment, voice and choice, and then attention to bias, exclusion, difference, all of these things that might, I think, modify and shape how someone experiences the other principles like safety or trust or transparency, right? Inclusion or why they're not experiencing those things.

Um, so I initially started working on, on trauma informed care and ethics consultation in 2019, I think, because we presented it at ASBH, the annual conference that year with Uche Anani.

She's a neonatologist and a bioethicist at Vanderbilt.

And we were really arguing, um, for the idea that ethics consultation should become trauma-informed to kind of catch up with where medicine was.

It builds on things like the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities core competencies.

We don't think this is a radical new method.

It's a complementing of that method to say, okay, how can we take the guidance already given and enhance it and improve it and in some ways hopefully fill in an account of how we might best achieve some of the goals laid out by ASBH and its core competencies to really realize some of the aims it has.

unteachable and hopefully replicatable ways.