Trauma Healing: A Mixed Methods Study of Personal and Community-Based Healing

Trauma survivors’ beliefs are important toward a new social response to trauma—a response that reduces help-seeking barriers and invites and supports healing. This exploratory, mixed-methods study examined trauma survivors’ perspectives about key elements of trauma healing. An online and paper-and-pencil survey (n = 82) asked participants to describe what hindered and what helped regarding how people in their lives, including mental health...