The Three Pillars for creating an environment that fosters healing and resilience:
1. Safety - Safety entails an environment where one can feel secure, calm, and attend to normal developmental tasks. Safety needs are closely connected to survival, but also to higher level growth needs.
2. Connection - Connection involves trusting relationships with caring adults as well as normative community supports such as sports teams, youth groups, and recreational programs. Building connections fosters resilience by meeting growth needs for belonging and generosity.
3. Emotional Regulation - Coping enables the individual to meet life challenges as well as to manage emotions and impulses underlying traumatic stress. In resilience terms, successful coping strengthens growth needs for mastery and independence.
Bibliography
Bath, H.I. (2008). The Three Pillars of Trauma-Informed Care. Reclaiming Children and Youth, 17,
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