Trauma-Informed Care and How Social Media Contributes to Trauma

Trauma has become an important part of medical care as we continue to understand further its effects on health over time. Trauma-informed care there-fore has become a necessary part of medical services. Understanding the fundamentals of trauma-informed care and how it was developed is crucial to implementing this care into medical training and across all medical services involved in children's health. This leads to the framework created for the pub-lic health approach of trauma-informed care, with primary, secondary, and ter-tiary levels of management. Social media has also increasingly been implicated in contributing to trauma, including caus-ing vicarious trauma, which can be just as detrimental to health and wellness. If we can encourage advocating for trauma-informed care training and poli-cies across medical services, we can cre-ate a system with a focus on this grow-ing factor in health care. [Pediatr Ann. 2023;52(3):e78-e80.]