Traumas and Social Work

• Stressful and traumatic experiences.
• Consequences of traumatic experiences.
• Trauma as a diagnostic category and trauma as an experience.
• Post-traumatic stress disorder: risk factors and protective factors.
• Attachment and trauma. History of trauma research.
• Social work and the trauma-informed approach.
• Psychological, neurophysiological and social consequences of trauma. S
• ingle and repeated traumatic experiences.
• Simple and complex traumatic experiences.
• Social reactions, stigmatisation and inclusion of trauma survivors.
• Recovery from traumatic experiences.
• Ways of supporting and helping people with traumatic experiences (different approaches).
• Helping the social systems in which a person with a traumatic experience lives: building resilience.

Areas:

• Trauma in natural and civilisation disasters;
• trauma in the family;
• trauma in wider society;
• trauma and loss;
• trauma and permanent physical impairment.