Trauma, Neuro, and Shame Awareness: Best Practice for Professionals, Organisations, and Communities
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Trauma, Neuro, and Shame Awareness: Best Practice for Professionals, Organisations, and Communities at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,763 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Credential | Certificate |
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Trauma, Neuro, and Shame Awareness: Best Practice for Professionals, Organisations, and Communities at FutureLearn Highlights
- Earn a certificate from Deakin University
Trauma, Neuro, and Shame Awareness: Best Practice for Professionals, Organisations, and Communities at FutureLearn Course details
- Trauma and shame are complex, with a deep and widespread impact. This four-week Deakin University course aims to elevate your understanding of how these factors influence human behaviour.
- From types of trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences to the impacts of these on individuals and relationships, you'll cover key issues around trauma and shame and also how trauma and shame-informed approaches can reduce problems such as addiction, violence and crime. By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of trauma and shame and the tools to make a positive impact in people's lives and communities.
- You'll start the course with an overview of different types of trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences, examining the scientific concepts and human experiences that lie behind common terms like "trauma"and "shame"
- You'll look at how trauma affects our mind and bodies, and the different ways people cope with trauma. You'll learn how trauma can be passed down through generations, impacting communities worldwide, including First Nations peoples and refugees.
- You'll explore the impact that trauma and shame have on individuals and their relationships. You'll also learn how to strengthen your own relationship skills and interpersonal connections in the context of trauma.
- Finally, you'll learn from experts who have implemented trauma-informed and shame-sensitive practices, applying your knowledge to understand why these practices are critical to creating inclusive and supportive environments for people with trauma histories.
Trauma, Neuro, and Shame Awareness: Best Practice for Professionals, Organisations, and Communities at FutureLearn Curriculum
Types of trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences
Introduction to the course
Point in practice: meet Cara and Fred
Different types of trauma
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and linked outcomes
What else informs the experience of trauma?
Point in practice: apply your learning
Weekly Wrap
Trauma responses, regulation, and the intergenerational transfer of trauma
Trauma effects on brain, body, and development
Ways of regulating the nervous system
Intergenerational transfer of trauma
Point in practice: apply your learning
Weekly wrap
Trauma effects on relationships
Relationships and attachment
Attachment theory and trauma
Explore First Nations perspectives on trauma and shame in interpersonal relationships
Point in practice: apply your learning
Weekly wrap
Trauma, neuro and shame-sensitive practice
Welcome to Week 4
Shame-sensitive practice
Consider how to create environments that are shame sensitive and trauma-informed
Strengths-based approaches
Weekly wrap
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