Sense of safety whole person domains – mapping how much of Humpty we need to consider

Enlarging on the insight that a ‘sense of safety’ includes self, other and context, stakeholder responses to what causes threat and builds safety have revealed a framework that could help practitioners reflect systematically on the whole. Other aspects of the physical body that are relevant in a whole person assessment include appearance, physiology, emotion, memory, sensation, arousal and behaviour. When considering whole person scope, objective physical and subjective causes of threat are both part of the whole. In any consideration of the whole, the practitioner needs a breadth of awareness that considers the domains of: environment, social climate, relationships, body, experience, sense of self and meaning and spirit. Experiences of safety in relationships seemed to be linked to belonging, trust, being heard and understood, a sense of meaningful support and being treated with dignity. Several areas of content were identified as sense of safety whole person domains and were mapped.