Trauma-informed interviewing

How it is used

Use for a reporting approach that explains choices and permits pauses; it is not a form of therapy.

Example sentences

1. Trauma-informed interviewing allowed the survivor to choose where the conversation took place.

   Offering a meaningful choice can reduce the interviewee's sense of lost control.

2. The workshop on trauma-informed interviewing focused on explaining publication before recording.

   Understanding the intended use helps a person make an informed participation decision.

Common collocations

• practise trauma-informed interviewing
• trauma-informed interviewing training
• trauma-informed interviewing techniques

Related terms

• intervieweeThe person who answers the questions in an interview, as opposed to the interviewer, who asks them.
• interviewA meeting or conversation in which a journalist asks someone questions to get information, opinions or quotes for a story or programme; also the published or broadcast result.

More terms: Interviews and Quotes

• quote
• off the record
• on the record
• on background
• vox pop
• transcript
• no comment
• quote approval
• quote mining
• pre-interview
• doorstepping
• death knock