Our Treatment Structure

The Arizona Trauma Institute promotes the Empowerment and Resiliency Treatment Structure. This approach to treatment of trauma has multiple benefits:

• Improves quality of care provided
• Improves long-term treatment outcomes
• Improves clinical governance
• Improves clinical competence and supervision
• Improves consistency of services and treatments
• Minimizes risks that would come from having inexperienced staff
• Includes trauma informed care and trauma sensitive treatment
• Reduces costs due to improved process with consistency of treatment
• Helps build a cohesive work force
• Builds familiar and predictable patterns for staff and clients
• Improves interactions between different skill levels of a diverse work force (minimizing clinical ignorance)
• Improves treatment team communication
• Enhances and supports formal, legally recognized assessment tools (CAPS, CANS-T, MMPI, etc.)
• Increases client confidence in treatment, helping client engagement

Empowerment and Resiliency treatment structure is organized into four distinct stages:

• Relationship building for therapeutic alliance
• Psycho education and self-regulation skills
• Trauma resolution and monitoring
• Post-traumatic growth and resiliency building