Define 'trauma-informed care' in the context of recovery coaching.

• A. An approach recognizing trauma's widespread impact, incorporating safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, and empowerment, and avoiding re-traumatization.
• B. A rigid protocol that ignores client choice.
• C. An approach to discipline provides strict guidelines with no flexibility.
• D. A system of mandatory reporting that disregards safety.

Answer: (D)

Trauma-informed care means understanding that trauma is common and can shape how someone engages in recovery work, and shaping practice to promote safety, trust, collaboration, and empowerment while avoiding re-traumatization. The best description is the one that explicitly mentions recognizing trauma's widespread impact and embedding safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, and empowerment in how coaching is delivered. The other options describe rigid protocols, lack of client input, or disregarding safety, which run counter to this approach. Mandatory reporting may be required, but trauma-informed care aims to handle any needs with safety and support rather than rigidity or harm.