Trauma Informed Approaches and Building Staff Resilience
For staff working across the health and social care sector the work they do can often be difficult to process. Often working compassionately alongside people who have experienced traumatic events can be a challenge.
There is a significant requirement for us to build the resilience of the workforce to be enhance their skills and understanding in this area. There is growing evidence based that shows us that have a more trauma informed workforce increases staff retention and provides employees with greater job satisfaction.
This full day course is broken down in to two sessions. Session one focuses on Gaining a better understanding of trauma, how we can recognise if someone has experienced trauma, the effects it has and what happens to the brain when trauma occurs.
Session two concentrates trauma informed ways of working that will benefit organisations and individuals in being able to provide a trauma informed approach across all aspects of the services they provide.
This also explores minimising of traumatisation and staff skills to enhance staff resilience and recognition of their own stressors to be able to work effectively with people who have experienced trauma whilst minimising the impact on the workforce's mental health.
Duration: 6 Hours
Maximum Capacity: 8-16
Session Format: Classroom Based Learning
Learning Outcomes
Discover the range of skills and learning outcomes you can expect to learn during our course.
Be able to explain what is meant by the term ‘trauma’
Describe the differences between acute trauma and complex trauma and what people may experience following the different types of trauma.
Be able to provide examples of different kinds of events that may be traumatic events for individuals.
Describe the ACE’s study and how adverse childhood experiences can impact someone later in life.
Be able to list the different events that are classified as adverse childhood experiences.
Have an awareness of how a child’s brain develops and the importance of healthy relationships and interactions on child development and resilience.
Explain the different responses you may see from someone who has experienced trauma.
List the long terms effects of trauma.
Discuss what is meant by the term PTSD and what may someone experience if they are suffering from this.
Describe what happens to the brain when someone experiences trauma and the functions for the neo cortex and the limbic areas of the brain.
Discuss why it is important when working in health and social care settings that we are trauma informed.
Explain the different reasons who people who access services are more likely to have suffered traumatic events.
Differentiate between being a trauma specialist, trauma skilled and trauma informed, and which category direct care staff fall into.
List the 4 R’s that an organisation should consider when implement a trauma informed approach.
Describe what is involved when implementing the 6 guiding principles of trauma informed principles.
Explain the different approaches that all care staff can adopt to be better trauma unformed practitioners.
Discuss how adapting our language can have a positive impact when working with people who have experienced trauma.
List what is and is not your role when working in a trauma informed way.
Be able to define the re-traumatisation and discuss ways that this can be avoided.
Explain what is meant by vicarious trauma and how this can lead to compassion fatigue.
Define what is meant by resilience, what building resilience means and what influences how resilient we are.
Discuss the different steps you can take to build resilience or support others to build theirs.
Discuss how lack of stabilising factors in our lives can impact on us personally and how this may impact on the people we support.
This course is an evidence-based approach to aide direct staff who support people that may have experienced psychological trauma or adversity and ensure that services and day to day support is delivered in a way that minimises re-traumatisation. The course also incorporates how to support disclosures of abuse and active listening skills.
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