Overview
This topic explores two vital themes in social work with individuals, families, groups, organisations and communities. Contemporary scholarship is expanding our understanding of the scope and nature of trauma and its impacts on affected individuals and groups of people. Simultaneously, scholarship is growing about resilience, the development of protective factors … For more content click the Read More button below.
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Aims
In this topic, students will be introduced to contemporary scholarship about the areas of trauma and resilience at individual, family group, organisational and communities levels and within and across vulnerable communities. They will be introduced to ways of understanding complexity in these areas, to developing a trauma-informed practice and to understanding post-traumatic growth and resilience in ways that lead to working with vulnerable people and groups to build resilience and protective factors at times of crisis. They will have opportunities to explore and develop a range of skills in working within this framework.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Utilise relevant concepts and theories from professional literature in practice situations involving trauma
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Identify and implement various appropriate interventions to help client work on trauma
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Recognise the indicators of traumatic stress and various strengths, resources and resilience among people experiencing trauma
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Assumed knowledge
Undergraduate studies in human social development and other areas of the social sciences including sociology.