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Unit of Study CSL71001 - Trauma and Resilience I (2020)

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Unit description

Introduces colonisation as an initial violence and examines the trauma experienced by individuals and groups, with a focus on cultural and individual resilience. Students will look at the overt, passive and perceived elements of social violence. Trauma, trans-generational trauma, trauma recovery and individual and group resilience will be explored.

Unit content

Topic 1: Trauma and Life
Topic 2: Transgenerational and Contagion Trauma
Topic 3: Trauma Responses I Flight Fight
Topic 4: Trauma Responses II Freeze Fracture
Topic 5: Resilience

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Online
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Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

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:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 interpret the psychology, behavioural analysis and transmission of trauma and trauma responses
2 locate frameworks for the analysis of trauma through the identification of trauma responses at group and individual levels
3 compare factors in resilience through critical analysis of trauma theory and case studies.

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

  1. interpret the psychology, behavioural analysis and transmission of trauma and trauma responses
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  2. locate frameworks for the analysis of trauma through the identification of trauma responses at group and individual levels
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  3. compare factors in resilience through critical analysis of trauma theory and case studies.
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:

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