Professional's Guide to Trauma-informed Decision Making

Cortny Stark

Dr. Cortny Stark (she, her, hers) is an Assistant Professor, and the Substance Use and Recovery Counseling program coordinator with the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Department of Counseling and Human Services. She is also a telehealth therapist with the Trauma Treatment Center and Research Facility, providing trauma reprocessing and integration, clinical services for substance use and process addictions, and supporting transgender and gender-expansive youth. In addition to her role as a clinician, Dr. Stark provides supervision for provisionally licensed counselors seeking their Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC) credential, is a Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) member, and facilitates nationwide trainings with the Motivational Interviewing Training Center out of Albuquerque, NM. Dr. Stark's research utilizes qualitative and mixed methods, and focuses on LGBTQQIA+ issues in counseling, leader development, integrative approaches to trauma reprocessing and integration, trauma-informed care, and substance use and recovery.

Jose "Joey" Tapia Jr

Dr. Jose Luis Tapia Jr. (he, him, his) is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. He graduated with his PhD in counseling at the University of North Texas. His research is focused on disability-responsive care across the lifespan. Dr. Tapia has been highlighted for her service by the American Counseling Association with the Arthur A. Hitchcock Distinguished Professional Service Award, the Outstanding Graduate Student Leadership Award by ACES, and Doctoral Student of the Year from the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association.

Dr. Tapia has served the community in public and private rehabilitation settings as well as, in private and community practice for 10 years. He has provided individual, relationship, play, and family therapy with a special focus in serving people with disabilities in three languages (English, Spanish, and American Sign Language). He is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Play Therapist, and National Certified Counselor. Additionally, he is a Certified Child-Centered Play Therapist-Supervisor, and Certified Child-Parent Relationship Therapy-Supervisor and has advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy.

Kylie Rogalla

Dr. Kylie Rogalla (she, her, hers) is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Counseling and Human Services at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.  She has been a Counselor Educator in CACREP master's-level programs for 11 years, as well as a telemental health counselor with BetterHelp.com for the past six years.  Dr. Rogalla began her professional journey as a Professional School Counselor, collected clinical credentials as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), expanded into the realm of substance use treatment with a Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselor (LCAC) endorsement, and secured the Board Certified Telemental Health (BC-TMH) provider credential to support her virtual practice.  Kylie specializes in crisis and trauma work, pedagogy, and research, originating in her roles within emergency crisis shelters for families experiencing intimate partner violence, as well as alternative high school programs serving underrepresented populations. Her additional research passions include anticipatory and disenfranchised grief, with a widened emphasis on personal and posttraumatic growth.

Kate Bunch

Kate Bunch (she, her, hers) is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in New Mexico.   She is also a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor (RPT-S), an Endorsed Infant Mental Health provider (IMHE-III) and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant.  She has engaged in continuing education around the treatment of trauma through somatic, attachment, and mult

Part 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Principles of Trauma-informed Ethical Practice.- Part 2. Attachment and Developmental Considerations.- Chapter 2: Ethical Decision-making from a Trauma-informed, Developmental Lens: Attachment and Developmental Considerations.- Chapter 3: Attachment and Developmental Concerns in Trauma Treatment.- Part 3. Physiological and Neurobiological Changes.- Chapter 4: Trauma-related Physiological & Neurobiological Changes: Implications for Ethical Treatment.- Part 4. Intergenerational and Historical Trauma.- Chapter 5: Intergenerational and Historical Trauma.- Part 5. Marginalization Stress.- Chapter 6: Honoring the Impact of Racial Trauma and Marginalization Stress in Trauma-informed Ethical Decision-making.- Chapter 7: Marginalization Stress: Hate, Violence, and Microaggressions.- Chapter 8: Trauma-Informed Ethics & Marginalization Stress.- Part 6. Cognitive Schema.- Chapter 9: Breaking Down to Build Up: Exploring the Interconnection between Cognitions, Emotions, and Beliefs in Ethical Trauma Treatment.- Chapter 10: The Role of Cognitive Schema in Trauma-Informed Care.- Part 7. Self-Concept.- Chapter 11: Self-Concept and Trauma-informed Ethics.- Chapter 12: The Transformation of the Self-concept Due to Abuse and Adversity.- Part 8. Protective Behaviors.- Chapter 13: Through Rose-Colored Glasses: How Protective Behaviors Impact Trauma-Informed Decision-Making.- Chapter 14: Trauma-Informed Ethics in Supervision: Self-protective Behaviors.- Part 9. Family and Community.- Chapter 15: Family & Community's Role in the Experience of Trauma, and Post-trauma Healing: Ethical Implications for the Helping Professionals.- Part 10. Helping Provider Health and Wellbeing.- Chapter 16: Trauma-informed Ethics: Relational Cultural Theory, and Implications for Helping Provider Health and Wellbeing  .- Chapter 17: Workplace Hazards in Trauma-informed Practice: Ensuring Helping Provider Health and Wellbeing.- Chapter 18: Navigating Occupational Hazards: Supporting Helping Provider Health and Wellbeing.- Chapter 19: The Impact of Client Trauma on Helping Provider Health and Wellbeing: Cultivating Wellness.- Part 11. Military, Veteran, and Law Enforcement Status & History.- Chapter 20: Honoring the Cultural Norms and Experiences of Military, Veteran, and Law Enforcement Clients.- Chapter 21: Trauma-informed Ethics with First Responders, and Veterans.