The Professional Certificate in Understanding Childhood Trauma is designed to support professionals currently working with children and young people impacted by abuse and neglect to develop a trauma-informed understanding of child abuse and neglect. It contains five topics which should take you up to 30 hours to complete. The Course is flexible and designed for you to work through the content at your own pace within a six-week period.

• Learn to recognise different types of child abuse and neglect.
• Identify the relationships between adverse childhood experiences, child abuse, and trauma.
• Identify the impacts of abuse and neglect on child development (in a case study) by using knowledge of normal development and how trauma disrupts development.
• Recognise elements of trauma-informed practice (through a case study).
• Apply evidence-based theories (e.g. neurodevelopment, attachment, intergenerational trauma) to case studies to explain why abuse-related trauma impacts on behaviour and wellbeing.

DELIVERY DATES

10 Feb 25 – 21 Mar 25
5 May 25 – 13 Jun 25
28 Jul 25 – 5 Sep 25
20 Oct 25 – 28 Nov 25