Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
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| Online | N/A |
Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
Faculty/College
Unit aim
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
Learning outcomes
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: | |
|---|---|
| 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:
- interpret the psychology, behavioural analysis and transmission of trauma and trauma responses
- locate frameworks for the analysis of trauma through the identification of trauma responses at group and individual levels
- compare factors in resilience through critical analysis of trauma theory and case studies.
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.