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SCWK6951: Trauma-informed Responses to Violence
2025 unit information
The trauma model is increasingly recognized as a useful approach to understanding the mental health impacts of interpersonal violence. The trauma model provides a potential bridge that enables mental health and social justice perspectives to be combined in responses to interpersonal trauma. The trauma model can also move beyond the harm suffered by individuals to considerations of community and trans-generational trauma, for example, as suffered by Indigenous Australians through experiences of murder, dispossession and child removal. This UOS provides students with a framework for responding to individual and community trauma.
Unit details and rules
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Social Work |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the trauma model for understanding and responding to interpersonal violence
- LO2. critically analyse the strengths and limitations of the trauma model
- LO3. demonstrate skills in trauma focused work with individuals, groups and communities
- LO4. demonstrate understanding of the key elements involved in establishing and supporting trauma informed services for victims/survivors of interpersonal and intergenerational violence
- LO5. engage in critically reflective practice
- LO6. demonstrate skills in collaborative and team work.
Unit availability
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Intensive November 2024
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Intensive November 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Additional advice
This unit is offered in Block Mode to ECAV pathway students only
