Unit Content
Outcomes
- Develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to provide appropriate and ethical therapeutic responses to those who have survived abuse and/or trauma;
- Discriminate between causative factors in ‘abusive’ relationships and extrapolate how these relations impact on individuals, families and communities;
- Critique a range of community resources that support trauma and abuse survivors;
- Integrate understanding of vicarious trauma into a self- care plan.
Subject Content
- What is trauma?
- Developmental trauma and how it affects human behaviour
- Complex trauma and the assessment process
- Crisis intervention and working with PTSD
- Intervention and Treatment
- Boundaries and self-care
- Report writing and the importance of referrals to therapy
- How the victim of trauma tells their story
- Assessment presentations
- The physical Effects of trauma
- Trauma, relationships and the family
- Is therapeutic pharmacology necessary to treat trauma?
This course may be offered in the following formats
- Onsite (face-to-face)
- Online (eLearning)
- Intensives
- Extensives
This subject typically runs as an online recorded unit which are watched weekly, with online-live tutorials.
Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.
Assessment Methods
- Interview (video) & Handout, Treatment Plan & Notes (40%)
- Case Study (30%)
- Essay (30%)
Prescribed Text
- Briere, J.N., & Scott, C. (2015). Principles of trauma (2nd ed. Rev.). London: Sage Publications.
Please consult your instructor prior to purchasing any textbooks.
