Trauma-Informed Sex Education: Safety, Consent, and Support
Trauma-informed sex education teaches sexuality and sexual health with awareness of trauma, emphasizing safety, choice, consent, dignity, and respectful participation.
Trauma-informed sex education teaches sexuality and sexual health with awareness of trauma, emphasizing safety, choice, consent, dignity, and respectful participation.
Survivor-centered care places a survivor’s safety, dignity, privacy, choices, and autonomy at the center of healthcare, advocacy, and support.
Trauma-informed care recognizes the effects of trauma and provides support through safety, choice, respect, informed consent, and reduced risk of retraumatization.
Rape culture describes social attitudes that normalize, excuse, minimize, or trivialize sexual violence while often shifting responsibility toward victims.
Victim blaming shifts responsibility for abuse or sexual violence onto the person harmed instead of focusing on the actions of the person who caused it.
Premenstrual syndrome is a recurring group of physical and emotional symptoms that appear before menstruation and usually improve after a period begins.
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a severe cyclical mood condition causing significant emotional and physical symptoms before menstruation.
Paternal postpartum depression is depression affecting fathers after a baby’s birth and may involve sadness, irritability, withdrawal, anxiety, and difficulty bonding.
Birth trauma is physical or psychological trauma linked to childbirth and may affect mental health, relationships, sexual well-being, and future pregnancy decisions.
Postpartum depression is a treatable depressive condition after childbirth that may affect mood, energy, bonding, relationships, sleep, and daily functioning.