VISSWB-FSD5514-SEM1-A-2024-5-O - L-Università ta' Malta

Course Title

FSD5514 - Trauma-informed Practice for Practitioners

MQF Level

Duration and Credits

Semester 1

2 ECTS

Mode of Study

Part-Time Day

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This study-unit will focus on the principles of trauma-informed practice related to working with children, young people, their parents or guardians, who have faced (or are facing) adversities and trauma. This unit will also focus on how the workforce can understand and protect itself from vicarious trauma as a consequence of the emotional demands of the work.

Main Reading List

Briere, J, N & Lanktree, C. B. (2012). Treating complex trauma in adolescents and young adults: London: Sage
Evans, A., & Coccoma, P. (2014). Trauma-informed care- how neuroscience influences practice. London: Routledge.

Supplementary Reading List

Jonsson, P.V. (2009) Complex trauma. Impact on development and possible solutions on an adolescent intensive care unit. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 14, 437 – 456
Trauma-Informed Practice: A tool kit for Scotland. Retrieved from https://www.gov.scot/publications/trauma-informed-practice-toolkit-scotland/
Perry, B. D., & Winfrey, O. (2021). What happened to you: conversations on trauma, resilience and healing. London: BlueBird
Sweeney, C. (2021). Exploring trauma care. Community Practitioner, 94(5), 45- 47.

Study-unit Aims

The objective of this study-unit is to help practitioners recognise the legacy effect of trauma in the clients that they may be working with. It will address evidence-based and best practice information so that practitioners can implement interventions from a collaborative, strengths- based approach, appreciating the resilience of trauma survivors. The students will also be asked to become aware of their own personal assumptions related to trauma events and to think how these assumptions are impacting their practice.

Learning Outcomes: Knowledge and Understanding

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

Analyse the impact and consequence of trauma experiences for children, young people and their families and how these may be reflected in their behaviours, emotions and other presenting symptoms;
Describe the core principles of trauma-informed practice;
Discern practices that may retraumatize clients.

Learning Outcomes: Skills

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

Conceptualise a case study that centers on both evidence-based interventions as well as an understanding of the client’s life and trauma experience rather than relying on a symptom profile;
Develop a strengths-based, resilience-focused interventions with clients;
Address the psychological risks for practitioners working with trauma clients.

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EUR170

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