Who is the course designed for
The course has been designed for educators, support staff, and paraprofessionals who deliver services directly or indirectly to children, adolescents, and teachers in the public, independent/private, and international sectors. Relevant professionals include teachers, school counselors, adjustment counselors, child-care staff, college counselors, education-related health professionals, educational psychologists, youth prison educators, and social workers.
Organisations include private, public, and international preschools, middle schools, elementary schools, high-schools, colleges, residential settings, juvenile detention centers, prisons, and children’s homes.
The course can be take as this independent course or within the deep dive Child Trauma – Exposure, Symptoms, and Neurobiology. For the latter, please click on the link below.
https://istep-global.com/our-courses/
Course duration & pace of learning
✓ 4 hours
✓ Self-paced learning
✓ Recommended over 4 weeks.
Course availability
✓ 12 months
Course certification
✓ Following course completion, click on the link to download your Certificate of Course Completion with the stated number of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours.
Course credits
✓ Completion of this course course provides 4 points towards the purchase of future courses.
Course objectives
iSTEP-GLOBAL experts share that recognizing resultant signs and symptoms from trauma exposure begins by acknowledging how traditional definitions of trauma have undermined the identification of trauma in children and adolescents.
Participants will learn the signs of post-traumatic stress, the co-morbid signs of anxiety, and depression, along with the more pervasive signs of developmental trauma in children and adolescents. The later signs are akin to complex trauma in adulthood. Differences in the types of trauma exposure are connected to different developmental trauma responses in children.
Finally, the course covers risk and protective factors for child traumatization.
Activities and assignments
Activities, based on different learning styles, involve written lectures, TEDTalks, videos, webpages, books, and journal publications to enable a diversity of learning experiences
A pragmatic approach is taken to course activities and assignments. Assignments are based on deep learning through application to real-life contexts, e.g. many activities and assignments result in the development of open education materials on different aspects of trauma to be shared with colleagues, caregivers, children, and others.
Students are advised to develop a reflective journal of ‘lessons learned’ for real-life situations.
OpenAI ChatGPT
Students are advised to use ChatGPT to ask questions throughout lessons. To ask your questions, open the ChatGPT search page (click on the link below).
NB: There is no research evidence to support ChatGPT strategies for individual client’s mental health.
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