Continuing professional development courses

Trauma & Resilience in a Developmental Context

The course will introduce students to concepts of trauma and resilience in a developmental context.

Course Dates	Semester 2
Course Credits	20
Course Delivery	Online
Academic Co-ordinator	Charles Marley

Course Description

This course will be an option course on the MSc in Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Psychological Practice. The course will introduce students to concepts of trauma and resilience in a developmental context. Past and current conceptualisation will be considered within applied settings to question how these conceptualisations help assessment and intervention for children and young people. The course has a preventative health care/health promotion focus.

Intended Learning Outcomes

To be able to demonstrate a critical awareness of a range of definitions and models of trauma and resilience within a developmental context.
To be able to apply this theoretical understanding to designing and implementing a resilience building framework to interventions at an individual, systemic or institutional level.

Course Delivery & Assessment

This course will run in Semester 2 (January-May). It is delivered entirely online over 10 sessions.

Entry Requirements

Applicants for the CPD courses will be considered on an individual basis. Guidelines for likely acceptance onto the programme can be found on the entry requirements page:

CPD entry requirements

Application Form

There are separate application forms for i) the standard CPD route or ii) the Academic Credit route. Please decide whether you wish to take the course for academic credit when applying, and complete the relevant application form. These can be downloaded at the CPD applications page:

Alternatively, paper copies can be requested from the CPD Secretary:

Lorna Sheal
Programme Secretary

Medical School
Teviot Place
Edinburgh EH8 9AG

Work: +44 (0)131 651 3970

Email:: cyp.msc@ed.ac.uk

This article was published on Sep 20, 2012