Indicative Trauma Impact Manual ITIM: ITIM for Professionals

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Dr Jessica Taylor has since featured in many documentaries, news programmes and discussion shows, focussing on misogyny, male violence against women, victim blaming and trauma of women and girls including Sky, BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and MTV. My perspective on mental health and trauma is now strictly trauma-informed, and that is something I am proud of. It has always guided my work, but I hadn't realised that it had a name until about 2016. I now work actively against pathologisation, medication and psychiatric diagnosis of adults and children who have been subjected to trauma, harm, abuse and distress of any kind. I consider the mental health movements to be misguided, often with good intentions - but ultimately lead to people believing that they have something wrong with them which needs treating or managing. When I was younger, I would have described myself as a social constructionist. I recognised that so much of the world was socially constructed using language and ideas, and this intrigued me. However, when I was 25 years old, I met a Professor who challenged me about social constructionism, and I found that I couldn't answer their questions. This forced me to rethink. I realised that not everything in the world is socially constructed, because some things sit outside of our social ideas and constructs. A good example would be gravity. Or Oxygen. These are things that will continue to behave and exist without our constructions of them. We could argue that gravity was socially constructed, but it wouldn't change how it worked. Gravity would still impact our bodies and our world. We would still hurtle to the ground if we decided that gravity was simply a socially constructed idea of humans. Subsequent chapters look at the various models of mental health, identifying basic human emotions, distressing traumas, trauma responses and coping, effects on babies and toddlers, physical responses to trauma and distress, questionnaires and measurement tools, medication is B.A.D., bias & oppression, and how to actually support traumatised and distressed people.

A horrible but extremely important study here. I have said for years that we don’t place enough focus on just how many sex offenders are in our society, which increases victim prejudice and victim blaming. The ITIM has been peer reviewed and tested by a range of senior professionals, academics, clinicians, and people with lived experience of trauma and distress.”abide by ethical guidelines ni al of their work to avoid abuse, harm, exploitation, bullying, discrimination and violence. One of the most powerful impacts of APTI approaches is to validate and depathologise normal, natural responses to human distress.

The manual describes, explains, and explores everything from nightmares to self-harming in an A-Z of emotions, thoughts and behaviours that are common in traumatised and distressed people. This edition also includes diagrams, theories, tools, and peer reviewed evidence throughout. The service provides logical and rational approaches to traumatised people, which demonstrably consider what is in the best interests of their clients. Similarly, the service believes that trauma responses to distressing experiences are logical, rational, and explainable. Her revolutionary ideas stem from a new school of thought that is fighting against the pathologization of mental health. With her expertise and knowledge, Dr. Taylor has become a leader in this movement. In September 2018, Jessica was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts for her outstanding contribution to psychology and feminism. Dr Jessica Taylor, born in October 1990 in Macclesfield, grew up in Stoke on Trent with her parents and siblings. The eldest of seven children, Jessica describes her early childhood as ‘a normal, working class upbringing in a small mining town’. Whilst studious and committed to her education, she was subjected to many forms of violence and abuse between the ages of 11 and 18 years old. This resulted in her leaving school early, and not completing her high school education. She did however, attend all of her GCSE exams in 2006 after many months of refusing to go to school and leaving home. She achieved 13 A-C grades.One issue with the structure is that there is no cross-referencing system, so the language you use to look up a particular response or coping mechanism needs to match the opinions of the authors. If you look up something which isn't there, keep searching as you may find it under a different phrase or heading. Founded by Dr Jessica Taylor in April 2017, the aim of VictimFocus has always been to provide critical thinking, evidence based practice, accessible information, affordable educational resources and challenging ways of approaching victim support services. Jessica started the business on her own, and took on several small contracts of training, consultancy and research with universities, authorities and research institutions. In 2017, she was commissioned to write the national evidence review in child sexual exploitation practice, which was published open access by Research in Practice in October 2017. During the PhD, Jessica explored emerging perspectives and critical approaches to understanding victim blaming. She also studied advanced psychometric theory and created the BOWSVA Scale (a validated psychometric which has the ability to measure victim blaming attitudes of women subjected to sexual violence and abuse). The layout of the book is accessible and easy on the eyes apart from most of the figures which are of low visual quality and sometimes blurred. Whilst we might not like this stats and results, we cannot continue in our sector without accurate estimates of how many people are abusive and dangerous.

Jessica describes herself as a trauma-informed, radical feminist psychologist. We asked Jessica to write about some of her key views and perspectives here. The ITIM (Indicative Trauma Impact Manual) is the world’s first completely trauma-informed manual of its kind, designed to indicate, respond to, and understand every kind of human trauma and emotion. Building on decades of research, case studies, and evidence published by practitioners, academics, and scholars in the field, the ITIM equips progressive professionals with evidence-based, anti-oppressive, anti-blaming and non-diagnostic information about a wide range of human emotion, thought, and behaviour. If you have questioned yourself like this, I just want to reassure you that it is common, normal and natural to do this. Partially this is caused by high levels of victim blaming attitudes and narratives in society, religions, laws, and families, but it can also be caused by the abuser themselves and the tactics they used to control and harm you.

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practice and theory, and rejects any theory, resource, practice or policy that oppresses, stereotypes, harms, silences or ignores marginalised groups of people. Work like this is vital, in my opinion, to end victim blaming. If there are millions of these offenders, how can any person or agency blame the victim? How can they claim they should have seen it coming? Or should have known? Or should have protected themselves more? Split into topic sections, this interactive journal contains information and facts about topics such as conception, pregnancy, birth, miscarriage, post-natal trauma, raising children, parenting choices and techniques and feelings about motherhood.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in mental health, psychology, or simply looking for a new perspective on these topics. It is a must-read for anyone seeking to broaden their understanding of mental health issues and how we can approach them in a more meaningful way. The ITIM offers a vision for a more relational, creative, non-blaming and just approach to working with traumatised people and systems." To respond to growing demand for VictimFocus resources and education, Jessica launched two new arms of VictimFocus in 2019: VictimFocus Resources and VictimFocus E-Learning Academy. The resources store contains a large collection of flashcards, educational guides, journals, books, handbooks, audio resources and digital resources for professionals and public. The profit from all sales are invested in niche research projects with women and girls subjected to male violence which are then peer reviewed and published for free via VictimFocus. The E-learning Academy is an intuitive platform for professionals, students and public to learn more about key topics with CPD accredited, reviewed modules at affordable prices (and in some cases, for free).Thank you for your hard work and determination to create systemic change for all in creating this book." The main bulk of the book is two A-Z lists of trauma causes and trauma responses. Other sections include signs of trauma in infants and toddlers, a list of health problems which can occur/flare up because of trauma, health problems which are typically overlooked, tools for exploring/assessing trauma, and an overview of different types of therapy. There is quite a lot of repetition across all sections of the book, however, this is understandable given that the book is intended to be used as more of a reference manual which you delve into from time to time rather than reading from cover to cover. Mother in Progress: From pregnancy through parenthood: A trauma-informed reflective journal and guide for women We simply cannot continue to diagnose and medicate millions of people per year, and continue to ignore the root traumas and causes of their feelings, thoughts and behaviours. The reality of mental health care is that the real causes and solutions have been staring us in the face for decades. Humans are distressed, tired, overworked, traumatised, controlled, abused, exploited, confused, lost, scared, and feel helpless. None of those experiences are illnesses of the body or the mind. Trauma-informed, anti-pathology approaches to mental health could change the world. This book could be revolutionary, and many thousands of practitioners have been waiting for something like this for decades. Nothing like this has ever been attempted, and I am so proud to have written the ITIM with Jaimi.”