Course Content
What is trauma?
Description and definition. Looking at different types of trauma experienced.
The impact of trauma on those you work with
A look at different ways trauma impacts people, and the different aspects of their life it affects. A discussion about real life scenarios and challenges and where the presenting behaviour stems from.
The impact of trauma on staff
We look at vicarious trauma, and empathy fatigue. How the traumatic experiences of others impact staff working with them and how this can lead to feeling a lack of empathy. Understanding this and creating tools to manage it can alleviate staff burn out.
Safety and support using a strengths based approach
How to support young people to feel safe in your service and with staff, to build trusting relationships. We look at how involving young people in their plans, their environment and their service has huge benefits on how they feel while supported by you. How to see young people's strengths and build on these to develop self belief, confidence and esteem.
What being trauma informed looks like
Using a variety of resources to learn what being trauma informed looks like in practice. We also use real work based examples from candidates and adapt responses to become trauma informed.
Application of TIC in practice
Following on from the above section we begin to build a tool kit of techniques staff can use in their work to become trauma informed, and support colleagues to do the same. We use scenarios from your organisation to help embed learning.
Develop your TIC tool kit
We want staff to have a tool kit not just for use with clients, but also for themselves when they are feeling the strain of working with people who've experienced complex trauma. Staff will leave the day confident at using their own individual list of techniques.
Responding to clients in crisis
Discussion and plan around how staff now feel they can respond to young people in times of crisis, using their tool kit.
Team approach using TIC
A look at how a whole team approach to being trauma informed can be extremely beneficial to young people in the service, and how this can be implemented.
Evaluation and discussion of what candidates will change
Completion of an evaluation form, stating what candidates will change in their practice, these are passed to their line manager for ongoing monitoring of how the training has impacted practice.