Bite-Sized

BiteSize Becoming a Trauma-Informed Practitioner


Description
Need a quick refresher? Looking to expand your knowledge and understanding at a pace that gives you a healthy work-life balance?

Join VictimFocus Academy for this bite-sized course on becoming a trauma-informed practitioner.

We will:

-Learn about trauma processing and reprocessing
-Seek to understand triggers over a lifetime
-Answer the question, "what is a victim?"
-Think about the "how, what and why" of trauma-informed and strengths-based practice
-Become more aware of our own personal bias
-Look at the impacts on our practice
-Challenge ourselves to grow personally and professionally
-Understand the meaning of "deficit model" and learn how to avoid it

Each section of the course should take about 10-15 minutes to complete, with a short quiz at the end.

Join us for this quick, interesting introduction to the topic, with an opportunity to learn more in our more in-depth course,Trauma-informed and Strengths-based Practice for Professionals, giving you a further 15-20 hours of learning.

Content
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  • trauma processing and re-processing 10-15 mins
  • What is Trauma? Defined by Bessel van der Kolk
  • What is Trauma? Video by Dr Jessica Taylor
  • Trauma, but for how long?
  • Trauma Effects on the Body and Mind
  • Think About It - How do you cope with stress and trauma?
  • Trauma Processing and Reprocessing
  • Take a Break if Needed
  • triggers over a person's lifetime 10-15 mins
  • Common Triggers: Having sex or being intimate
  • Common Triggers: Having children
  • Common Triggers: Achievements and problems
  • Common Triggers: Education and information
  • Common Triggers: Exposure to media
  • Common Triggers: Medical procedures
  • Common Triggers: Death, injury and illness
  • Common Triggers: Reoffending and new victims
  • Take a Break if Needed
  • "What is a victim?" 10-15 mins
  • A person subjected to violence or abuse
  • Which is the right term, 'victim' or 'survivor'?
  • Are women victims, survivors, none or both…
  • Think About It - Your opinion of the terms
  • Take a Break if Needed
  • the how, what and why of trauma-informed and strengths-based practice 10-15 mins
  • The How of Trauma Informed
  • The What of Trauma Informed
  • The Why of Trauma Informed
  • Think About It - Your ideas of trauma-informed speech or writing
  • Trauma-informed? Strengths-based?
  • Take a Break if Needed
  • awareness of our own personal bias 10-15 mins
  • Tackling Our Unconscious Bias: What can we do?
  • We're all biased.
  • Rape Apathy – The Real Responses to Research in Sexual Violence
  • Think About It - Who is biased and why?
  • How to Outsmart Your Own Unconscious Bias by Valerie Alexander
  • Take a Break if Needed
  • the impacts on our practice 10-15 mins
  • Using the Ecological Model to Help Prevent Victim Blaming
  • Explaining Macrosystem Factors
  • Explaining Exosystem Factors
  • Explaining Microsystem Factors
  • Explaining Individual Factors
  • Take a Break if Needed
  • growing personally and professionally 10-15 mins
  • What is Vicarious Trauma?
  • Vicarious Trauma and Burnout - Not Part of the Job
  • Think About It - Vicarious trauma
  • Working with our own stress and trauma
  • Victim Blaming: changing our mindset
  • How can we move forward and change our practice?
  • Take a Break if Needed
  • the meaning of "deficit model" and how to avoid it 10-15 mins
  • Deficits vs Strengths
  • Mental Health - Then and Now
  • Thomas Szasz on The Myth of Mental Illness
  • Think About It - Changing approaches
  • Think About It - Your ideas
  • Take a Break if Needed
  • Further reading - in your own time
  • You are not going crazy: Your physical health after sexual trauma
  • Supporting patients with trauma and abuse histories for dentists
  • Sexual violence and the media Portrayals and Prevention Dr J Taylor
  • Dr Jessica Taylor - PhD Thesis
  • Thomas Szasz on The Myth of Mental Illness - Link to Full Video
  • Taster - trauma-informed and strengths-based practice for professionals
  • Module 1: Introduction-Defining Comparing& Justifying a Trauma Informed Approach
  • Want to learn more?
  • your thoughts
  • What did you think of this course?
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever