Guidelines - adults surviving child abuse

Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA) has published their new Australian guidelines 'The last frontier: practice guidelines for treatment of complex trauma and trauma informed care and service delivery'.

Funded by the Department of Health and Ageing, the purpose of the guidelines is to inform health professionals, workers and organisations about new ways of responding to trauma, in clinical practice and in health and human service settings. The guidelines aim to influence, advise and educate on treatment of complex trauma and the implementation of trauma informed care and service. This is the first time clinical guidelines for the treatment of complex trauma have been published, and they collate the last 20 years of national and international research.