Media Description: Retraumatization Chart

Media Description: Retraumatization Chart

Image of the retraumatization chart displays the title word, "Retraumatization" with the words, "What hurts?" directly below. Two columns of information are directly below the title. The left column is titled, "System (Policies, procedures, structural and institutional racism and oppression)," and the right column is titled, "Relationship (Power, control, subversiveness, interpersonal racism and oppression)."

The left column lists the following:

  • Having to continually tell their story
  • Being treated as a number
  • Being seen as a label (i.e. addict, schizophrenic)
  • No choice in service or treatment
  • Non-acknowledgement of work related stress
  • No access to services
  • Practices without accessibility considerations
  • Isolation or exclusion practices
  • Marginalizing practices
  • Practices without cultural considerations
  • "Isms" and phobias

The right column lists the following:

  • Not being seen/heard
  • Non-transparency and veiled truths
  • Does things for rather than with
  • Use of punitive treatment, coercive practices and oppressive language
  • Racial profiling
  • Being non-collaborative
  • Victim blaming
  • Non-acknowledgement of historical narratives
  • Microaggressions
  • Non-inclusive language and messaging
  • Non-acknowledgement of power dynamics

The bottom right of the page reads, "Institute on Trauma-Informed Care (2021)"