VALIDATE is a term coined in the Indicative Trauma Impact Manual that encompasses a trauma-informed ethos.

Dr Jessica Taylor, born in October 1990 in Macclesfield, grew up in Stoke on Trent with her parents and siblings. The eldest of seven children, Jessica describes her early childhood as ‘a normal, working class upbringing in a small mining town’. Whilst studious and committed to her education, she was subjected to many forms of violence and abuse between the ages of 11 and 18 years old. This resulted in her leaving school early, and not completing her high school education. She did however, attend all of her GCSE exams in 2006 after many months of refusing to go to school and leaving home. She achieved 13 A-C grades. A-Z format including hundreds of emotional, psychological, and physical responses to trauma, stress and harm The main bulk of the book is two A-Z lists of trauma causes and trauma responses. Other sections include signs of trauma in infants and toddlers, a list of health problems which can occur/flare up because of trauma, health problems which are typically overlooked, tools for exploring/assessing trauma, and an overview of different types of therapy. There is quite a lot of repetition across all sections of the book, however, this is understandable given that the book is intended to be used as more of a reference manual which you delve into from time to time rather than reading from cover to cover.A horrible but extremely important study here. I have said for years that we don’t place enough focus on just how many sex offenders are in our society, which increases victim prejudice and victim blaming. practice and theory, and rejects any theory, resource, practice or policy that oppresses, stereotypes, harms, silences or ignores marginalised groups of people.

This book was a disappointment. It is advertised as a non-diagnostic alternative to other manuals of mental health (like the DSM or ICD). While it is good that the authors have taken the time and effort to take on such a monstrous task, the result is a confusing, contradicting piece of literature which, as a clinician, I feel has limited use. When working therapeutically with people, there are other alternative approaches to the use of diagnostic labelling (such as the Power, Threat, Meaning Framework by Johnstone and Boyle) which make better use of relevant research/theory, are more clinically informed and, overall, are more useful than this manual.

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Work like this is vital, in my opinion, to end victim blaming. If there are millions of these offenders, how can any person or agency blame the victim? How can they claim they should have seen it coming? Or should have known? Or should have protected themselves more? In June 2021, Little Brown announced that they will be publishing Jessica’s second non-fiction ‘Sexy But Psycho’ in March 2022. Jessica released an early statement saying that she feels that this book will be the ‘most important thing she will ever write’. The ITIM (Indicative Trauma Impact Manual) is the world’s first completely trauma-informed manual of its kind, designed to indicate, respond to, and understand every kind of human trauma and emotion. Building on decades of research, case studies, and evidence published by practitioners, academics, and scholars in the field, the ITIM equips progressive professionals with evidence-based, anti-oppressive, anti-blaming and non-diagnostic information about a wide range of human emotion, thought, and behaviour.