Essential Trauma Concepts

Basic theory and concepts that are essential to all trauma-informed care.

  • Mental Health, Nutrition, and Depression

    As mental health treatment becomes more integrative in its approach, diet, along with such other lifestyle factors as exercise and sleep is now being studied. Recent studies, especially one randomized controlled study, are supporting what many have known, at least anecdotally, all along: food affects mood. Any discussion of mood must begin with the brain…