The Gendered Well-being Assessment: addressing trauma, complex needs & social determinants of health.

ABSTRACT: Women's Centres in the UK provide crucial support to women with complex needs, who are often excluded from statutory services, frequently acting as a service of 'last resort'. A major challenge when working with this population is the lack of a holistic, validated, and gender-responsive assessment tool to measure needs comprehensively and systematically. This paper introduces the Gendered Well-being Assessment (GWA), a trauma-informed quality-of-life assessment designed for women with complex needs outside the criminal justice system. The GWA aims to support early intervention, enhance multi-agency collaboration, whilst offering a structured framework for case management. A comprehensive scoring algorithm combines contemporary research on accumulative complex trauma, complex needs, and tox

SUBMITTER: Ruprai D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12355881 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature