A Trauma-Informed Approach to Resilience and Wellbeing
UndergraduateTAS-EES2032025
Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 21 July 2025
- Price from
- $2,440
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Resilience and Wellbeing
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, the student will be able to:
- Explain the impact of early adversity on children’s growth and development
- Examine personal beliefs and attitudes in relation to early adversity.
- Explore trauma-related theories and their relationship to contemporary practice.
- Reflect on how trauma-informed skills and knowledge can be applied to support learning.
- Communicate effectively using professional and scholarly conventions and language.
- Module 1: Understanding the impact of trauma.
- Definitions of Trauma
- Definitions of Trauma Informed Practice (TIP)
- Overview of Attachment
- The Attachment cycle and its relevance to learning
- Brains and Bodies – part 1
- Brains and Bodies – part 2
- Beliefs and Behaviours
- Module 2: Responding to the impact of trauma.
- Building healthy relationships
- Building healthy brains and bodies
- Building positive behaviours together
- Building self-care
- Reflections on your journey to becoming trauma informed
This subject will appeal to any students wishing to explore the impact of trauma in our lives, and especially how this affects our learning. The subject will introduce and highlight key concepts of early adversity, that you may be familiar with from your own prior learning or educational experiences. These concepts will be explored through a lens of resilience and wellbeing. You will be introduced to theories, principles and strategies that will further your understanding of the impact of trauma, and enable you to build resilience, promote wellbeing, and support growth and learning, both for yourself, and others more effectively. You will also explore the importance of self-care to ensure your own sense of wellbeing which is critical for learning and the support of others.
- Quizzes x 4 - The impact of early adversity: Key understandings and practices (20%)
- Action Plan and Reflection on Learning (40%)
- Behaviour analysis and the implications for practice (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-EDS-ADG-2025 - Associate Degree in Education Support
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:
Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Weekly online lectures (1 hour), weekly online webinars (2 hours)
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Associate Degree in Education Support
UndergraduateTAS-EDS-ADG