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MANDURAH-S2-INT-2020-ONGOING

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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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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