PUB HLTH 7025 - Trauma Informed Practice

This course addresses issues identified by industry and other stakeholders as emerging and critical areas for counselling practice. It will specifically equip students with the skills for working with people suffering the effects of trauma, including clients who present specifically with symptoms such as depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress, as well as clients for whom trauma has been some part of their past (e.g. through childhood abuse or neglect and intimate partner/familial violence). These skills are a crucial part of work in many areas of counselling and psychotherapy. The course will also give attention to survivors of assault and abuse. Students will learn theoretical and practical approaches to working with these client groups, the evidence base for these approaches, the strengths and limitations of these approaches, and when and how to liaise with other professionals about related issues. This will include exploration of recent developments in neuroscience, the literature on Adverse Childhood Experiences, and how to provide test practice therapy in these areas.