UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

The Family Assessment of Needs & Strengths - Trauma Exposure and Adaptation (FANS-TEA) is an assessment tool designed with three overall purposes: 1) to document the range of strengths and needs exhibited by families affected by trauma, 2) to describe the contextual factors and systems that can support a family's adaptation from trauma, and 3) to assist in the management and planning of services for families with exposure to and adaptation from traumatic experiences... The FANS-TEA is designed to be used either as a prospective assessment tool for decision support during the process of treatment planning or as a retrospective assessment tool based on the review of existing information for use in the design of high quality, family centered, trauma informed systems of services... As a prospective assessment tool, the FANS-TEA provides a structured assessment of families who have been exposed to trauma along a set of dimensions relevant to adaptation to trauma and trauma-specific..