Trauma-Informed Evaluation and Research A Practical Guide

Meeting an important need, this is the first book to present a comprehensive framework for integrating trauma-informed principles into evaluation practice. It provides concepts and strategies applicable to any evaluation approach, from the initial project framing to surveys, interviews, analysis, and final reporting. The authors explain the neuroscience of trauma and show how using Trauma-Informed Evaluation and Research (TIER) practices can improve the quality of research while supporting healing, resilience, and posttraumatic growth in both participants and researchers. Grounded in SAMHSA’s Six Principles of Trauma-Informed Care, the book features compelling case studies from diverse practitioners; reflection questions; and practical tools, checklists, and templates for immediate implementation. Cultural responsiveness, equity, and restorative justice principles are woven throughout.

Martha A. Brown, PhD, is an independent evaluation consultant in Minnesota. Her interests and expertise include trauma-informed practices, restorative justice, and culturally responsive evaluation approaches. She has applied these various methods and philosophies to her work as well as to her own healing from adverse childhood experiences and other traumas. As president and founder of RJAE Consulting, Dr. Brown helps individuals and organizations become restorative and trauma-informed through online courses, workshops, and coaching sessions.

Aaron W. Kates, PhD, LCSW, is an Indiana-based evaluation consultant with Effect X, where he works with a range of for-profit and nonprofit organizations designing and implementing program evaluations. As a social worker, mental health counselor, evaluation scholar and practitioner, and survivor of childhood trauma, Dr. Kates brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to trauma-informed evaluation and research. He worked as a trauma therapist with unaccompanied minors before pursuing his doctoral education.

I. Understanding Individual and Collective Traumas--Including Our Own
1. What Is Trauma?
2. How Our Own Traumas Influence Our Work
3. Foundational Principles of TIER
II. The Evaluation Landscape
4. Representation of Trauma in the Evaluation and Research Literature
5. TIER’s Congruence with Evaluation Approaches
6. Equity-Focused and Trauma-Informed Evaluation and Research
III. Doing TIER
7. Being a TI Researcher and Evaluator
8. Designing and Framing TIER
9. Making Surveys Trauma Informed
10. TI Interviews and Focus Groups
11. TI Analysis and Reporting
IV. Growing TIER
12. TI Programs, Organizations, and Systems
Appendix A. Recommended Literature Referencing the Six Principles
Appendix B. Trauma-Informed Coalitions and Organizations
Appendix C. Resources for Deeper Learning.
Appendix D. What about Fawning?
TIER Glossary
References
Index
 

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