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EDEC4014: Trauma-Informed Early Education
2026 unit information
This unit provides students with foundational knowledge and skills to lead a team approach to trauma-informed education and behaviour guidance. By developing neuroscience-informed knowledges of trauma and sociocultural perspectives of behaviour in early childhood, students will gain understandings about why and how these behaviours occur; identify risk factors and contributors to trauma; implement family-centred practice; and engage with proactive and relational-based strategies to build children’s resilience. Students will also explore self-care strategies to minimise possible negative wellbeing impacts of supporting young children’s challenging behaviour.
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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18 credit points in 4000-level EDEC coded units |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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EDEC2005, EDEC2011, EDEC3007, EDEC4007 |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Adopt strengths-based and relational approaches to understanding young children’s complex behaviour.
- LO2. Use theory and research to explain trauma and trauma-informed behaviour guidance approaches.
- LO3. Demonstrate an ability to draw on strategies that support a behaviour guidance approach and which minimise or alleviate the harm that trauma exerts on children’s development and functioning.
- LO4. Explain the factors that can contribute to trauma.
- LO5. Identify and explain how resilience factors can counterbalance the possible negative outcomes of risk factors.
- LO6. Critically reflect on the early childhood setting as a potential contributor of children’s challenging behaviours, and the complexities involved in implementing a service-wide trauma-informed and/or behaviour guidance approach.
- LO7. Demonstrate strategies intended to support educator wellbeing and alleviate vicarious trauma.
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 2 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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