Understanding Trauma and Trauma-Responsive Practice
Understanding trauma is important. What makes a difference in everyday practice is how that understanding shapes what we notice, the assumptions we question and the actions we take.
This on-demand course will help you move from being trauma informed to trauma responsive, giving you practical ways to support children and young people through everyday interactions.
No previous Thrive training is needed.
Duration
Approx. 1 hour
Format
On demand
Access
90 days' access, for one delegate
Price
£50 + VAT
Understanding Trauma and Trauma-Responsive Practice
Overview
Develop a clearer, more balanced understanding of trauma, adversity and stress, and explore what behaviour can tell us about a child or young person and, just as importantly, what it cannot.
Across two recorded sessions, you’ll challenge common assumptions about trauma and behaviour and consider why remaining curious is so important. You’ll explore how trauma can be recognised as one possible influence on a child or young person without allowing it to define them or obscure their other needs.
With research-informed insights and realistic examples, you’ll discover practical actions you can use to create greater relational safety, belonging, regulation and engagement in your setting.
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Understanding Trauma and Trauma-Responsive Practice
Benefits
Build your confidence in trauma-responsive practice, with practical approaches you can use to support children and young people in your everyday interactions.
- Build confidence in trauma-responsive practice.
- Understand trauma, adversity and stress.
- Respond to behaviour with greater curiosity.
- Use practical strategies straight away.
- Support individual needs more effectively.
- Embed trauma-responsive practice consistently.
- Create safer, more predictable environments.
- Strengthen relationships with children and young people.
- Support regulation, belonging and engagement.
- Develop a more whole-child approach.
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Programme details
What you'll learn
Explore what it means to be trauma responsive and how you can put this approach into practice with children and young people.
You’ll explore:
- What trauma is and what it is not, including trauma, adversity and stress.
- What behaviour can and can’t tell us about a child or young person.
- How curiosity can help you avoid assumptions and consider the whole child.
- Four practical actions for trauma-responsive practice: anticipating, responding, repairing and reviewing.
- How relationships, environments and communication can support safety, regulation, belonging and engagement.
How the course works
This is a short, on-demand course that you can complete at your own pace.
The learning is practical and accessible, helping you build your understanding of trauma and what it means to be trauma responsive. You’ll work through key concepts, explore realistic examples and consider how to apply four practical actions: anticipating, responding, repairing and reviewing.
The course includes approximately one hour of pre-recorded learning, presented in two sessions:
- Session 1: Understanding trauma, adversity and what behaviour can tell us about need
- Session 2: Responding to need in practice
You’ll have 90 days’ access, giving you the flexibility to revisit the learning whenever you need to.
Understanding Trauma and Trauma-Responsive Practice
Who this course is for
This course is for anyone who supports children and young people and wants to develop a more confident, thoughtful and practical approach to trauma-responsive practice. It is particularly suitable for:
- Teachers, teaching assistants and Early Years practitioners
- Pastoral, behaviour, inclusion and SEND professionals
- School and setting leaders
- Social care, youth work and health professionals
- Volunteers and others who support children and young people
“Creativity and play can give children the means to express their emotions far more articulately than through words.”
Viv Trask-Hall | Head of Theory and Practice at Thrive
on-demand learning
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Course fee: £50 + VATLearn at your own pace, with 90 days’ access from purchase.
- Approx. 1 hour
- Start straight away
- No previous Thrive training needed
No. You don’t need to be a Thrive School or have completed any previous Thrive training to take this course.
Immediately. The course focuses on practical approaches that you can apply to your everyday interactions with children and young people.
Each purchase gives one delegate access to the course. You can purchase places for as many team members as you need.
No. This course does not count towards the annual Thrive CPD hours required to maintain your Licensed Practitioner status.