ENTER Conference 2025:
Trauma, the workforce and the workplace:
Implementing trauma informed approaches in mental health care
In association with
School of Nursing and Midwifery,
Trinity College Dublin
Date: 19.06.2025
Venue: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin
24 D'Olier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
ENTER Mental Health held its annual conference 2025 in association with the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin on the 19th June 2025. This marked the 25th anniversary of the inaugural conference. The programme featured keynote sessions, parallel sessions, poster presentations and interactive workshops.
Conference Theme
To dovetail with ENTER Mental Health’s research theme for 2024 and 2025 and following on from our conference in Warsaw, the overarching theme for the Conference was ‘Trauma, the workforce and the workplace: Implementing trauma informed approaches in mental health’. The following papers were presented at the conference (where possible links to the papers will be provided - please check for updates):
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Workshops
Revisiting Traumatic Stress and the Roots of Wellbeing: Shifting Mindsets to Maximize Health Span Across the Lifespan.
Facilitator: Dr Alison B. Arnold (Central Michigan University, USA).
Who says what is good? A trauma informed practice review process that puts service users in control.
Facilitator: Sinead Roe/Quality Matters (Ireland).
Parallel Papers
Building Resilience to Vicarious Trauma: An Evidence-Based Plan for Trauma-Informed Healthcare.
Nicki Annunzinta (Ireland).
Trauma in a Healthcare Setting: recognition and resolutions.
Noelle O’ Keeffe (Ireland).
Healing and Trauma – Women’s perspectives on the therapeutic relationship during CBT. A systematic review of qualitative evidence.
Silvia Ferreira (Ireland).
When values, practice, trauma and supervision connect. Orienting modes of addiction support work to trauma therapy expertise in a clinical supervision setting.
Vivienne Murtagh, Richard Carson (Ireland).
Service Provider Perspectives on Shame and Recovery in Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Female Genital Mutilation in Ireland: Qualitative Findings.
Dr Shaakya Anand-Vembar (Ireland).
Defining Trauma: a neuroscience perspective.
Jan De Vries (Ireland).
Trauma intervention integrating EMDR and psychiatric rehabilitation tecniques.
Tamara Bisan, Antonello Grossi, Maria Maddalena Martucci (Italy).
The Compounding Effects of Trauma in High Intensity Professions-The Case of Daniel.
Alexandria M. Dancey (Ireland).
'Pause and Reflect’, a guided restorative reflective resource for public health nursing teams in schools: a resource development and evaluation study.
Sarah Bekaert, Tikki Harrold, Pernilla Garmy, Georgia Cook (UK).
Enhancing Professional Support for Suicide-Bereaved Individuals Through a Co-Created Digital Solution.
Lisbeth Hybolt (Denmark).
Poster Presentations:
LGBTQ+ Inclusive Care: Beyond the Trauma Approach.
Mojca Urek (Slovenia), Anže Jurček.
Translational Simulation for Trauma-Informed Care (TS4TIC): A Novel Healthcare Simulation Approach to Implementing Trauma-Informed Care.
Mel Ó Súird, Sinéad McGarry, Marie E. Ward, Meg Ryan, Sharon Lambert, Thomas Collins, Caroline Gardner, Eileen Sweeney, Austin O'Carroll, Ronan Kelly, Muireann Murphy, Aliza Ali, Rebecca Murphy, Paul McLouughlin, Joanne Dowds, Aoife Dermody, Dermot King, Gerry McCarthy, Paula Quirke, Darragh Shields, Una Geary, Paul Merrigan, Ann-Marie Lawlee, Alan Buckley, Sharon Slattery, Sharon O’Hara, Maria Lotty, Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, Frédérique Vallières (Ireland).
Trauma-Informed Care in the Mid-West Mental Health Services: Insights from a Staff Survey.
Dr. Nodlaig Moore, Dr. Louise Murphy, Dr. Teresa Tuohy, Dr. Owen Doody, Mr. James Harrington, Ms. Ann Hammersley (Ireland).
Integrating trauma informed practices in mental health services using the TARA model framework.
Ann Marie Sloane, Patrica Vaughan & Trudy Dunworth (Ireland).
Trauma Prevention and Resilience Building in the Workplace: The Example of Employees’ Psychosocial Support Day Centers in Greece.
Dr Konstantinos Tsoukas, Prof. Evanthia Sakellari (Greece).
The psychological impacts of content moderation on content moderators.
Silvia Rosado Figuerola, Jacobo Chamorro López, Ángeles Malagón Amor, Lourdes López Molina, Helga Puig Domenech (Spain).
Self-harm: Health Care Professional’s experiences of Blended Care Digital Solutions.
Lise Bachmann Østergaard & Lene Lauge Berring (Denmark).
Trauma-Informed Care for Nurses in Forensic Mental HealthSettings.
Deviga Karunanithi (Ireland).
Psychotherapists Lived Experience of Clients’ Dissociation in Session: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis.
Lisa Farrell (Ireland).
Employment, Empowered: Barriers and Facilitators to Migrant Women’s Participation in the Irish Labour Market.
Dr Shaakya Anand-Vembar, Vjollca Nerguti (Ireland).
Spotlight on Debriefing: An Approved Centre Focus to Reduce Restrictive Practices.
Tracy Kennedy (Ireland).
Stress, trauma and family life which impact to the workplace.
Nika Cigoj Kuzma (Slovenia).
Service providers’ experiences with Supported Housing for Persons with Co-Occurring Problems and Trauma.
Sorsa, Minna, Hammervold, Unn, Sagvaag, Hildegunn (Finland).
Significant reductions in restrictive practice and seclusion in a Dublin North City Adult Mental Health Approved Centre from 2022 to 2024.
Laura Scully, Caroline O’ Connor, Alison Duff, Ruth Power, Karen Murphy and Angela Noonan (Ireland)
Book of Abstracts
The Book of Abstracts is available here.