FULL Course
“Despite of trauma, children are still individuals and we need to see the person behind it all. This is how we start to help the child recover”.
Anttoni Alho, Co-Founder, Expert
Global Need for Encountering Trauma
Trauma Sensitivity in Teaching
Studies show that 2/3 of those under the age of 16 have experienced a traumatic event and children and adolescents are at greatest risk of severe psychological trauma. One third of children who have experienced a traumatic event experience harmful effects, and when left untreated, the effects of the trauma are often extremely detrimental and burdensome for both the child and her parents.
The effects of trauma can extend to adulthood and, at worst, can cause severe mental health problems. When a person is left unaided and alone, trauma may become internalised to the victim's personality and may even be passed on from one generation to the next. The worst effects on the well-being of the child are caused by the cumulative events that occur when the child is unable to get help.
Encountering a traumatised child at school is now relatively common and it is therefore important that teachers are well prepared to help these children. Attachment traumas, refugee traumas, sudden traumatic events, traumas in the community, and severe bullying are traumatising for school-age children but in addition common and general situations, such as parental divorce, unemployment, illness or other difficult family situations may cause trauma.
During the course, we take on these topics and go thoroughly through reasons behind trauma, how trauma affects learning and offer you practical advice on how to recognise a traumatised child, how to encounter a traumatised student in school and how to support learning and the development of resilience.
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You Will Learn
Understanding Trauma
What Trauma Is
Understand the stages of a traumatic crisis
Understand how to support a child in these situations
Understand what traumatic behaviour looks like
Understand reasons behind trauma
Understand the effects of shame on the child due to trauma
Working With Trauma
How to Encounter a Traumatised Student & Support Learning
How to identify a traumatised student and the symptoms of trauma
How to support the recovery of a traumatised child at school
How traumatisation affects a child's learning
How to support a child's learning at school
How to apply trauma sensitive approach for teaching
Help to Learn
A Smoother Schoolday
Are you working in comprehensive school? Do you sometimes feel like there are students in your class that you do not fully reach? Do you at times feel overwhelmed after the day because all the noise and possible chaos? Do you know some of your students have challenges in personal life but you do not quite know how to help? Or are the students in your class acting out but you do not quite know why?
This course is for you.
Hope to see you inside the class!