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C7245C Understanding and Working with Grief and Trauma

This unit aims to equip the student to understand the special challenges faced by counsellors and pastoral care workers in situations marked by intense grief and trauma.
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Unit Overview

Qualification

Bachelor

Unit Availability

Trimester 3 2025

Study Mode

No Facilitation, Online Facilitation

Placement

N/A

Tuition

Bachelor BTM Fee

Prerequisite

9cp in any discipline

Corequisite

N/A

Notes

N/A

Schedule
Availability Facilitation Type Time Dates Facilitator
Trimester 3 2025 Online Facilitation 10am – 12pm
(AEST/AEDT)		 Wednesday 10 September
Wednesday 17 September
Wednesday 24 September
Wednesday 1 October
Wednesday 8 October
Wednesday 15 October
Wednesday 29 October		 Kaye Schelbach & Gaylia Logan

Unit Details

This unit aims to equip the student to understand the special challenges faced by counsellors and pastoral care workers in situations marked by intense grief and trauma.

 

At the end of this unit students will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the impact of grief and trauma on the human person.
  2. Articulate a variety of approaches to grief and trauma counselling.
  3. Analyse appropriate forms of people helping for those experiencing grief, loss, and trauma.
  4. Develop practical strategies for maintaining self-care in relation to post-traumatic trauma and secondary post-traumatic trauma, including ethical consideration of safety for the traumatised person.
  5. Apply principles of grief and trauma counselling to a specific situation or context.

 

  1. Introduction to Trauma
  2. Coping with Trauma 1
  3. Coping with Trauma 2
  4. Sexual Abuse and Trauma
  5. Coping with Sexual Abuse and Trauma
  6. Grief and Loss
  7. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  8. Domestic Violence and Trauma
  9. Grief in Chaplains
  10. Post-Disaster Trauma
  1. Online Forums (10%)
    Word Limit: 500 total
    Due: Week 3, 5, 7, 9, 11
  2. Critical Response (40%)
    Word Limit: 2000
    Due: Week 8
  3. Major Analysis (50%)
    Word Limit: 2500
    Due: Week 12
  • Cloud, H. and Townsend, J. (2009). Safe people: How to find relationships that are good for you, and avoid those that aren’t.  Zondervan.

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