What is it about?

Describing the overlap between SEL and trauma-informed approaches in schools, and how to enhance SEL delivery to ensure it is trauma-informed.

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Why is it important?

Enhancing school capacity to provide trauma informed services utilizing SEL will allow schools to provide a better education for all.

Perspectives

As a psychologist specializing in the treatment of childhood trauma, this publication is an important part of improving all systems to treat the traumatized child.

Ava Lorenzo
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

As SEL and related approaches become more widespread, it is essential to understand them as both trauma-informed and strong emotion-informed. Assuming that SEL instruction occurs outside of a traumatic context is an assumption that will be far more incurred than accurate, regardless of the SES or ethnicity of the population involved.

Maurice Elias
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

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This page is a summary of: All SEL should be trauma-informed, Phi Delta Kappan, October 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0031721719885919.
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