Sandra Bloom

Drexel University, Health Management and Policy, Faculty Member

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Dr. Sandra L. Bloom is a Board-Certified psychiatrist, graduate of Temple University School of Medicine and currently Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University. From 1980-2001, Dr. Bloom served as Founder and Executive Director of the Sanctuary programs, inpatient psychiatric programs for the treatment of trauma-related emotional disorders and during those years was also President of the Alliance for Creative Development, a multidisciplinary outpatient practice group. Dr. Bloom is recognized nationally and internationally as the founder of the Sanctuary Model. Between 2005 and 2016 over 350 social service, juvenile justice and mental health organizations were trained in the Sanctuary Model. Dr. Bloom is a Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and author or co-author of a series of books on trauma-informed care: Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies published in 1997 with a second edition in 2013

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Domestic Violence

Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, Oct 5, 2012

Developing a Community-Wide Initiative to Address Childhood Adversity and Toxic Stress: A Case Study of The Philadelphia ACE Task Force

Academic Pediatrics, Sep 1, 2017

The Philadelphia ACE Task Force is a community based collaborative of health care providers, rese... more The Philadelphia ACE Task Force is a community based collaborative of health care providers, researchers, community-based organizations, funders, and public sector representatives. The mission of the task force is to provide a venue to address childhood adversity and its consequences in the Philadelphia metropolitan region. In this article we describe the origins and metamorphosis of the Philadelphia ACE Task Force, which initially was narrowly focused on screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in health care settings but expanded its focus to better represent a true community-based approach to sharing experiences with addressing childhood adversity in

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The sanctuary model: Through the lens of moral safety

American Psychological Association eBooks, Apr 13, 2017

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the Sanctuary Model, a trauma-informed, evidence-suppo... more The purpose of this chapter is to describe the Sanctuary Model, a trauma-informed, evidence-supported, relationship-based, high-commitment, highperformance organizational development approach that enables a program, a system, or a community to consciously and deliberately design or redesign their own workplaces so that establishing and maintaining safe moral climates becomes possible (Beer, 2009; Bloom, 2013a; Bloom & Farragher, 2010, 2013). Historical background and evolution of the sanctuary model is presented along with the articulation of its four current pillars: trauma theory, Sanctuary Commitments, S.E.L.F., and the Sanctuary Toolkit. Outcomes and implementation of the Sanctuary Model are discussed. Information on the Sanctuary

Remembering the Social in Psychiatry

Attachment: Constructing the Social

Trauma Theory: Deconstructing the Social

Loss of Emotional Management

Oxford University Press eBooks, Oct 28, 2010

A core difficulty for clients served by human services is the ability to manage distressing emoti... more A core difficulty for clients served by human services is the ability to manage distressing emotions, while at the same time being able to extend empathy to their clients and not become emotionally anesthetized. Emotions are contagious and under any conditions, human service delivery environments demand the highest levels of emotional labor from workers. Stress and trauma exacerbate those demands. Atmospheres of recurrent or constant crisis severely constrain the ability of staff to manage their own emotions and this makes it difficult to provide healing environments for their clients. Atmospheres of chronic crisis and fear contribute negatively to poor services. Under these circumstances, conflict escalates and both relationships and problem-solving suffers.

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Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies

Trauma-organised systems and parallel process

Restoring Sanctuary

The complex mental health consequences of human trafficking

Intervening in the community to treat trauma in young men of color

Lack of Safety: Recurrent Stress and Organizational Hyperarousal

Oxford University Press eBooks, Oct 28, 2010

Postscript

British Journal of Psychotherapy, Mar 1, 1996

Conclusion: a public health approach to violence

Violence, 2018

Page 105. CHAPTER FOUR Conclusion: a public health approach to violence Sandra L. Bloom What is a... more

Violence

Afterword: Human Rights and the Science of Suffering

Springer eBooks, 2019

The author of this final chapter is a psychiatrist whose expertise includes a deep understanding ... more The author of this final chapter is a psychiatrist whose expertise includes a deep understanding of the impact of traumatic stress on individuals, groups, and organizations. She calls this understanding the “science of suffering” and in doing so ties together traumatic stress studies and human rights advocacy as two inseparable discourses, functioning at two different levels within any society—the first focusing on alleviation of suffering, the other on the prevention of suffering. She reviews the changing relationship between these two discourses over time showing how that relationship has shifted depending on dominant themes within the psychiatric profession as psychiatry moves toward and then away from grappling with the social determinants of health that are irrevocably tied to human rights.

Creating Sanctuary

Routledge eBooks, Mar 7, 2013

Bearing Witness

Routledge eBooks, Feb 25, 2014

A Biocratic Paradigm: Exploring the Complexity of Trauma-Informed Leadership and Creating Presence™

Behavioral Sciences

A paradigm shift is under way in the human services because of breakthrough knowledge and researc... more A paradigm shift is under way in the human services because of breakthrough knowledge and research in understanding the underlying etiology of physical, emotional, and social problems at the micro-level of the individual, at the meso-level of the family and institutions, and at the macro-level of the entire society. The three levels of human existence—micro, mezzo, and macro—constitute interactive, interdependent, complex adaptive living systems. The complexity of these problems requires us to use our imaginations to envision health in individuals, organizations, and societies because it does not presently exist. After thousands of years of unrelenting exposure to trauma and adversity, we have all normalized what is a traumatogenic civilization. As a result, we live in a trauma-organized society in ways we are just beginning to understand in this century. This biopsychosocial knowledge base that is drawn upon here has come to be known as “trauma-informed” knowledge because it began ...

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