Unit of Study WELF2003 Trauma Informed Practice (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Health
Placement

No

Unit description

Explores issues of grief, trauma and crises, such as death, illness, family breakdown, violence, abuse, disasters, and life changes. Examines theory and skills, attitudes and responses to grief, trauma and crises. Applies intervention models to grief, trauma and crises.

Unit content

Discourses of loss, trauma and crisis
Death, dying and grieving
Theories of loss and grief, trauma and/or crisis
Working with grief
Working with trauma/crisis
Working with grief, trauma and crisis in the human services

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Gold Coast	Term3	Term3
Online	Term3	N/A

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

critically review discourses informing loss, grief and trauma

analyse theories of grief, trauma and crisis

critically reflect on own values and beliefs about grief, trauma and crises

discuss a trauma informed approach to human services practice.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Assessment
Short written response	40%
Presentation	60%

Teaching method

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Assessment
Short written response	40%
Presentation	60%

Prescribed learning resources

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Fee information

Domestic

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