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    All About Trauma - developing trauma informed practice
    Provider   Disability & Wellbeing Training

    Trauma results when an event or incident overwhelms a person’s ability to cope or where it outweighs an individual’s personal resources. This course in an introduction to the effects of trauma and provide insights into working with people who have experienced trauma events.

Duration 5 sessions

Course Type Workshop

Booking Status Now Booking

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Target Audience: Developing Awareness for Trauma Informed Practice

Trauma results when an event or incident overwhelms a person’s ability to cope or where it outweighs an individual’s personal resources.: perhaps resulting in the experience of overwhelming emotion, fear of death and complete helplessness. 

This course seeks to introduce learners to the effects of trauma and provide some insights into working with people who have experienced traumatic events.  

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:

  • Outline the impact of trauma including its psychological impact and behavioural manifestations
  • Explain how trauma affects the physical body
  • Describe a range of coping strategies and the long-term impact of these approaches
  • Apply acquired knowledge to real-life and work situations in a professional and empathetic manner
  • Understand how this fits into a truma informed practice approach


Delivered By: Sean McCann

Prerequisites

Staff only, you must be able to attend in person, these sessions will not be recorded or streamed but if there is sufficient demand an online version will be delivered at a later date.