Leisure and Trauma

Leisure can play an important role in promoting healing and recovery from trauma. Trauma can have a significant impact on a person's well-being, mental health, and quality of life. Trauma-informed care, an approach to healthcare that recognizes and responds to the impact of trauma, has increasingly become a standard of care across health and human services. With the evolution of the biomedical model across health services and the use of trauma-informed care practices increasing it is timely to understand the role leisure plays for those who have experienced trauma.

This special edition seeks contributions that will further advance leisure in all its capacities to increase the interconnections occurring in health and human services. More specifically, what we're looking for is empirical or theoretical contributions that explore the relationship between leisure and trauma, particularly in health and well-being care settings.

The editors of this special edition are particularly interested in manuscripts that tackle one or more of the following themes (but are not limited to them):

1. What types of trauma, what settings and by whom is leisure utilised
2. Trauma-informed care practices and experiences of staff in using leisure
3. Areas for advocacy of leisure in trauma-informed care.

Keywords: leisure, trauma, recovery, health

Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.