ABSTRACT
In the following chapter, the author argues that while trauma-informed practice has emerged in a variety of spaces and disciplines with increasing popularity, its current application does not consider or define issues of diversity and inclusion as traumatic. The author argues that it therefore falls short in properly assessing and treating trauma, especially trauma experienced by marginalized and precarious populations. Operating from white normative culture, trauma-informed scholarship has failed to recognize concerns and trauma created by structural and systemic racism. Through personal practice and scholarship, the author has found that supplementing trauma-informed practice with principles of diversity and inclusion increases the effectiveness of treatment.
