Unit Content
Outcomes
- Explain current evidence-based, ethical responses and interventions for trauma;
- Select and apply the appropriate support practices of a Chaplain for people affected by trauma, such as domestic and family violence;
- Identify client needs and respond with appropriate care or referral;
- Integrate understandings of trauma into a self-care plan for Chaplaincy professionals;
- Explain how to apply a Christian framework that identifies and works holistically with the survivor, recognising the role defence strategies play in the client’s survival.
Subject Content
- Developmental trauma and how it affects human behaviour
- Complex trauma
- Social factors relating to trauma, violence and abuse
- Trauma populations, e.g., domestic and family violence; refugees, disasters
- Abuse and trauma prevention and early intervention
- Trauma Informed Care and Psychological First Aid
- Christian frameworks for chaplaincy responses and interventions to trauma
- Boundaries, self-care, and emotion regulation
This course may be offered in the following formats
- Face to face (onsite)
- eLearning (online)
- Intensive
This subject typically has both online pre-recorded lectures AND mandatory online-live components.
Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.
Assessment Methods
Prescribed Text
No prescribed text – all readings will be provided
