Learn the what PTSD is and recognise the symptoms.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can develop after a person has experienced or witnessed a traumatic event. The event may involve actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence, and can lead to persistent, intrusive, and distressing memories or feelings.
What is PTSD? What are the symptoms of trauma? How do inhibitors and stressors effect someone’s behaviour? Why do I need to know about brain development? How do children’s brains change when experiencing trauma? How does disassociation affect the child? How can you recover from PTSD? What is co-morbidity and how does it apply to PTSD? How can I help someone with PTSD? What is secondary traumatic stress?
Our PTSD in children course will help you to answer these questions and so much more.
One in 13 children and young people in the UK will suffer from PTSD at some point during childhood.
What you'll learn.
- Identify possible causes of PTSD.
- To recognise the impact of traumatic stress on child development.
- Understand how PTSD affects children and adults differently.
- Better support a person with PTSD and recognise its impact on them in the real world.
- To understand what people need to recover from trauma.
- Offer trauma informed care.
- To understand the impact of living and working with traumatised children.
- To think about how to prevent and treat secondary stress disorders.
Who is PTSD in Children for?
Our PTSD in children course could be for anyone that works in and/or around children. This could be in education settings or leisure settings as it can affect behaviour and how specific children react to different situations. Those working in care settings would benefit also due to the higher rate of children experiencing trauma.
What are the learning outcomes?
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Identify possible causes of PTSD.
- Recognise the impact of traumatic stress on child development.
- Understand how PTSD affects children and adults differently.
- Better support a person with PTSD and recognise its impact on them in the real world.
- To understand what is needed to recover from trauma.
- Offer trauma informed care.
- To understand the impact of living and working with traumatised children.
- To think about how to prevent and treat secondary stress disorders.
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