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Offerings

MANDURAH-S2-INT-2020-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

Enrolment in Master of Creative Arts Therapies or GDCAT. Other students wanting to study this unit can be interviewed by the Unit Coordinator for consideration by the Creative Arts Therapies Academic Chair.

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Learning outcomes

1.

Conceptually understand varied trauma presentations in children and adults inclusive of vicarious and secondary trauma presentations for professionals and care givers.

2.

Demonstrate knowledge of research and theoretical frameworks relevant to working with trauma from a psychotherapeutic perspective.

3.

Describe the developmental, relational, cognitive, emotional and motivational impacts of trauma across the life-course and within organisational and social systems.

4.

Critically appraise different approaches to understanding traumatisation, treatment and recovery from individual, community, organisational and social perspectives.

5.

Utilise advanced knowledge of theoretical perspectives and models of resilience and traumatic growth in their application in clinical case work with traumatised people using Creative Arts Psychotherapy approaches.

6.

Apply a repertoire of creative arts therapy interventions based on a solid understanding of evidence based research relating to creative arts psychotherapies and their specific application to this client group.

7.

Meaningfully integrate all the above knowledge into a relational stance towards working with trauma survivors and within traumatised systems.

8.

Demonstrate clarity on how traumatic material impacts on the development of therapeutic and other relationships.

9.

Revise a personal self-care plan and continue practicing self-care interventions to process traumatic materials within professional relationships with clients, colleagues and organisations.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Key Topics

Frameworks for conceptualising trauma

Creative Arts Psychotherapy and trauma

System wide perspectives on trauma and therapeutic approaches

Impacts of trauma across the life course

Neurobiology and trauma research

 

Key Concepts

Trauma informed practice

Post-traumatic growth

Trauma organised systems

Expressive modalities and traumatised clients

Secondary and vicarious trauma

Therapeutic inter-dependence

Intergenerational trauma (indigenous settings)

 

Academic Debates

Relational expressive therapeutic approaches and their benefits/challenges for traumatised clients

Working with(in) traumatised systems

Use of the self and relational stances for working with traumatic material

Resourcing clients through conscious and unconscious processes

Neurobiological research and its relationship to creative arts psychotherapy