Some children have had stressful or traumatic experiences – violence, neglect, loss, flight from their home country, severe hardship. These experiences can leave deep marks and show in how children behave and feel. Trauma-sensitive pedagogy helps you understand these children and give them what they need most in the day-care centre (Kita): safety, stability and a dependable relationship. The day-care centre is not a therapeutic institution – but it can be a safe, healing place where children under strain find safety, reliable relationships and positive experiences. This course provides a basic understanding of trauma and its consequences, the trauma-sensitive attitude, ways of providing safety and stability, the healing power of relationships, dealing with triggers, promoting self-regulation, cooperation with specialist services and child protection, as well as self-care for practitioners.
Course objectives:
- gain a basic understanding of trauma and its consequences
- understand and make sense of the effects of trauma in behaviour
- understand the trauma-sensitive attitude and the importance of safety
- give children under strain safety, stability and relationship
- deal appropriately with triggers and hyperarousal; promote self-regulation
- shape the day-care centre as a safe place; cooperate with specialist services and child protection
- avoid secondary traumatisation and take care of yourself
Scope: 12 modules of about 45 minutes each (approx. 12 teaching units of 45 minutes each, about 9 hours).
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