Course: Support Worker Resources, Tile: 18: Child and family trauma

18: Child and family trauma

18: Child and family trauma
- This module explores trauma and how parents' work-related (or service-related) trauma can be passed on to children. It is useful for family workers and social workers supporting children of military, veteran and first responder families.
  About trauma
- Video: What is trauma? (5 minutes)
- How children and families experience trauma
- Impacts on children and the secondary transfer of trauma
- Childhood trauma and the brain (5 minutes)
- Transfer of trauma within families
- Signs of trauma in young children
- Trauma and the nervous system (9 minutes)
- Book review: A useful book about the impacts of trauma
- Post Traumatic Stress
  Post Trumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is better described as PTS, without the 'disorder'. Many people who have PTS, think the word 'disorder' is unfair because it sounds as if there is something wrong with them, rather than something traumatic has happened.
- When does mental distress become a mental illness?
- More about PTSD and children's resources
- The psychology of PTSD (5 minutes)
- 12 signs you might be suffering from PTSD (2 minutes)
- 12 signs of complex PTSD (8 minutes)
- Supporting children to recover from trauma
- Trauma support for children
- Triggers - how they work and how to reduce their effects (7 minutes)
- How to overcome trauma (5 minutes)
- Hypervigilance and how to overcome it (5 minutes)
- How the brain adapts to adversity (8 minutes)
- Support services and community organisatons
- Trauma-informed practices
- Animation: Getting yourself right before you can support others (4 minutes)
- The Basics: Trauma informed principles and practices (17 minutes)
- Trauma informed care for social workers (22 minutes)
- Recognising the symptoms of trauma (3 minutes)
- Explainer animation using a hand model about amygdala for children (2 minutes)
- Animation: Helping children see the positives in their lives (4 minutes)
- Preventative programs and behaviours
- The Resilience Project
- Free resources: Supporting children through natural disasters and climate emergencies
  
  This site has free storybooks (in a number of languages), educational activities and animations to support children's understanding and recovery from traumatic weather events. It also builds children's empathy for those who are impacted by such events.
- The link between poor mental health, depression, anxiety and diet
  
  Episode 3 of this series explores the link to processed food and poor mental health and how this can be easily reversed. (N.B. iView programs are free, but you might need to sign up for a free account. Once you have watched the program, you can then cancel the account if you wish to).
- Children's Resources
  
  To accompany this module, please use the following resources from Children's Resources:
  1. Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTSD eBook and accompanying resources, including a downloadable, printable eBook, audio and video read-along versions, extension teaching activities, and printable teaching materials. This book is layered so it can be used from preschool age, right through to upper primary school-aged children.
  2. In Sickness and in Health: Sam's Story eBook and accompanying resources, including a downloadable, printable eBook, audio and video read-along versions, extension teaching activities, and printable teaching materials. This book is layered so it can be used from preschool age, right through to upper primary school-aged children.
- Index
- I found a small error (e.g. link that won't work, typo, grammar, spelling, terminology)
- General feedback for this module