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Trauma and Development: Understanding the impact for educators

Course Overview

Children and adolescents who live in adverse circumstances where there is neglect, abuse, or violence live in a state of hypervigilance and with toxic stress from experiencing ongoing, traumatic events. Toxic stress
sabotages development and well-being – the brain and the body struggle to function effectively, the consequences of which, can be far reaching. This short course looks at the impact of adversity and toxic stress on development, focussing on the brain. Educators will build their knowledge and understanding of children and adolescents whose development has been interrupted by toxic stress and trauma.

Course Content

The key areas covered in this course are:

  • Trauma and Development (early childhood to adolescence)
  • Adversity, the brain, and toxic stress
  • Resilience

About the course creator

Dr Kay Ayre is a lecturer in Early Childhood Studies in the School of Education, Edith Cowan University. Kay is a behaviour support specialist with a background in early years teaching and trauma-informed behaviour support.

The course is entirely online and self-paced, taking approximately 9 hours to complete.
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Cost and inclusions

  • $199 to undertake the course which includes all reading materials, case studies and online activities
  • 10% discount is offered to ECU alumni and for multiple bookings from the same organisation.
  • Contact education_shortcourses@ecu.edu.au to obtain a discount coupon prior to using the online payment system and to obtain an invoice for group bookings.
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