Recently The College Fix published an article highlighting a recent study by Iowa State University researchers that found trauma-informed investigations on campus lack a scientific basis.

The article highlights the researchers' key conclusion: "Available research, however, fails to fully substantiate systematic differences in inconsistent or disorganized recall as a function of traumatic experience.”

Instead of using flawed trauma-based questions, authors Christian Meissner and Adrienne Lyles cite the importance of asking open-ended questions and following them up with questions like “who?” “what?” “when?” and “why?” 

The article also highlights our campaign to stop trauma-informed ideology: 

• The paper came out shortly before a due process group kicked off a month long campaign to “end victim-centered methods in campus adjudications and in the criminal justice system.”

  Stop Abusive and Violent Environments characterizes the use of these methods, which are related to trauma-informed techniques, as the “Death of Due Process.”

Titled "Popular Title IX training techniques ‘are at odds with the available science," the article is linked to this Update.