Details for Trauma Informed Practice I

Awards offering Trauma Informed Practice I

This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:

• Graduate Certificate in Arts
• Graduate Certificate in Trauma Counselling
• Graduate Certificate in Wellbeing Studies
• Graduate Diploma in Arts
• Graduate Diploma of Applied Social Science
• Graduate Diploma of Counselling
• Master of Arts

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Develop an understanding of trauma, developmental factors and lifespan considerations
2. Critique principles central to trauma informed practice
3. Appraise current evidence-based responses and interventions for trauma in individual and group settings;
4. Examine cultural and social factors central to people who have experienced trauma.

Subject Content

• What is trauma
• Theories of trauma, including individual, group and systemic
• Lifespan development; including Child / Adolescent & Adult
• Developmental trauma
• Trauma Types: Disasters, local, national, global
• Specific: Domestic & Family Violence
• Specific: Human Trafficking
• Social & Cultural considerations
• Principles of Trauma Informed Practice
• Trauma Informed Practice
• Community care resources, including case management
• Principles of recovery and post traumatic growth

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Onsite (face-to-face)
• Online (e-Learning)
• Intensives

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

• Critical Reflections (30%)
• Essay (30%)
• Case STudy Analysis (40%)

Prescribed Text

• Briere, J. & Scott, C. (2015). Principles of trauma (2nd ed. Rev.). Sage Publications

Please consult your instructor prior to purchasing any texts.