UO Therapeutic Responses to Childhood Trauma

Course aim

To develop specialised knowledge for responding to childhood trauma and apply trauma-focused skills required to assist children to resolve trauma from abuse.

Course content

This course will cover trauma-informed and evidence-informed strategies for assisting children and young people to manage the impacts of trauma across a range of areas, such as sleeping and eating difficulties, emotional regulation, relationship building, managing painful memories, and identity development. Content will also include working with caregivers to support children and young people impacted by trauma and managing risk issues. Content will cover creating trauma-informed case plans for children and young people and common barriers (and solutions) when responding to childhood trauma. Reflective practice will be extended upon within this course content from previous courses.

Textbooks

Nil

Prerequisites

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
WELF 5116	UO Foundations of Childhood Trauma
WELF 5117	UO Principles of Responding to Childhood Trauma
WELF 5114	UO Assessing Childhood Trauma

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching Method

Component	Duration
EXTERNAL, ONLINE ACTIVITY
Online (Asynchronous learning activities)	7 hours x 10 weeks
Online (Self-directed learning activities)	5 hours x 10 weeks
Online (Seminar)	2 hours (fortnightly) x 10 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Contribution, Professional plan, Reflection

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 4S)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation