Course overview
To enable non-specialist professionals currently working with children and young people to develop a trauma-informed understanding of child abuse and neglect.
Course learning outcomes
- Recognise different types of child abuse and neglect.
- Identify the relationships between adverse childhood experiences, child abuse, and trauma.
- Identify the impacts of abuse and neglect on child development (in a case study) by using knowledge of normal development and how trauma disrupts development.
- Recognise elements of trauma-informed practice (through a case study).
- Apply evidence-based theories (e.g. neurodevelopmental, attachment, intergenerational trauma) to case studies to explain why abuse-related trauma impacts on behaviour and wellbeing.
Availability
Class details
Online
Group 1
Class number 31438
Section 01OL
Size 200
Available 200
Class details
Online
Group 1
Class number 60617
Section 01OL
Size 200
Available 200
Class details
Online
Group 1
Class number 3186
Section 01OL
Size 200
Available 200
Class details
Online
Group 1
Class number 40149
Section 01OL
Size 200
Available 200
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