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Childhood Trauma - Module 2: Nurturing Healing with Trauma-Informed Approaches
This module not only equips counsellours to recognise and address childhood trauma, but will also assist parents, caregivers and educators to help traumatised children (aged birth to 13 years) heal in the context of everyday life.
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- Course Instructor Synergetica (Liedani CC)
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Description
Child development and growth in children are often compared to a plant that is grown from seed. Although seed have the potential to become something greater (a flower or a tree), it needs the right environment and circumstances to reach its potential and become what it was intended to be. When a plant is not thriving, we must investigate the possible reasons. However, when children are not developing as expected, or when their behaviour is challenging, the question is often asked – “what is wrong with the child?”
Trees often develop gnarls in response to environmental stressors (such as intense winds or physical damage). Similarly, trauma leaves its mark on physical and mental health well into adulthood as children learn to adapt and grow around their painful past experiences. Various adaptations that result from childhood trauma is covered in this module.
Dormant trauma can be triggered at any stage by a wide array of circumstances. Unhealed psychological wounds and physical wounds both hurt just as much (even decades) later, as when the wound was originally suffered. Behaviour observed in others is often misunderstood and might be triggered by an unhealed childhood emotional wound.
If we could look at trauma responses and behavioural adaptations from a different angle we would think differently about pathology. Viewing pathology or mental and physical health problems as a dynamic process to be engaged with, rather than an evil force to be feared or battled, can ultimately expand the possibilities for healing.
What you’ll learn
- Characteristics of traumatic childhood experiences and its connection to mental health disorders.
- Recognising childhood trauma in children through posttraumatic reactions and emotions.
- Recognising indications of a healed child.
- The connection between trauma triggers and posttraumatic reactions and emotions.
- The impact trauma has on children compared to adults.
- The importance of healing childhood trauma and potential consequences of unresolved trauma.
- The neurobiological mechanisms underlying trauma responses.
- The process of healing trauma in children compared to adults.
- The transformation of trauma memories through memory reconciliation.
- Using a trauma-informed counselling approach that incorporates play based activities.
- Using play-based activities to heal childhood trauma in the context of everyday life.
Requirements
- Childhood Trauma Module 1
Here is exactly what we cover in this course:
Traumatic childhood experiences can disrupt a child's developmental trajectory, effecting their physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development. To address childhood trauma, understanding the neurobiology of trauma, trauma responses, trauma memories, trauma triggers, and post-traumatic reactions is essential. When post-traumatic reactions and emotions in children are misunderstood as misbehaviour or when unhealed trauma is overlooked, it remains unresolved. Incorporating play-based interventions is extremely effective in helping children heal from trauma. This module not only equips counsellours to recognise and address childhood trauma, but will also assist parents, caregivers and educators to help traumatised children (aged birth to 13 years) heal with trauma-informed tools and techniques in the context of everyday life. Healing will prevent future stress-related physical and mental illnesses and stop the cycle of trauma being passed to future generations.
Additional resources include:
- 100+ play-based interventions
- Posttraumatic symptoms and reactions
- Tips to deal with crying, raging and tantrums
- Nervous System Survival Responses
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Course Curriculum
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Module 2
- Nurturing Healing with Trauma-Informed Approaches
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Additional Resources
- Children and Trauma
- What to do when your baby cries
- Crying for comfort
- The crying-in-arms approach
- Nervous System Response Summary
- Nervous System Responses
- Nervous-System-Survival-Responses
- Posttraumatic symptoms and reactions summary
- Understanding Tears and Tantrums
- Trauma Informed Play-Based Activities
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Module 2
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