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Course Learning Goals and Outcomes for the Trauma-Informed Care Micro Credential
The students will:
1. Identify and reframe behaviors that are understood to be signs of traumatic exposure across domains of human functioning, including physiological, physical, social-emotional, behavioral, psychological, and cognitive domains.
2. Discuss the ways that developmental age and stage impact the outcomes of traumatic exposure across the lifespan.
3. Analyze experiences of oppression, racism, and discrimination through the lens of trauma theory.
4. Articulate the core principles of trauma-informed care, and evaluate if and how they have been implemented in human service, educational, and/or healthcare settings.
5. Explain resilience factors that contribute to enhanced well-being for victims/survivors of trauma.
The students will:
1. Interpret cases of human behavior and complex trauma exposure through the lens of a sensitized stress response system, including both the arousal continuum and the dissociative continuum.
2. Apply the framework for sensitive neurodevelopmental windows to cases of child maltreatment and neglect in order to develop neurobiologically-informed treatment and/or educational activities and goals.
3. Explain and demonstrate the neurobiologically-informed sequence of engagement with trauma-exposed individuals: “Regulate-Relate-Reason.”
4. Articulate and explain the role of relational health as a key protective factor and primary source of healing from complex trauma.
The students will:
1. Define and identify examples of burnout, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma across human service settings.
2. Discuss and identify organizational factors that increase risk for indirect trauma, and those that reduce the risk for indirect trauma, including policies and procedures, leadership and management practices, and workplace culture.
3. Explain the role of individual self-care practices in the well-being, life satisfaction, and service quality of helping professionals.
4. Create and implement a personalized self-care plan that attends to the core domains of self-keeping: psychological/emotional, social, physical, and spiritual.
5. Apply principles of trauma-informed care to organizational-level policies, protocols, and procedures to a variety of human service settings (healthcare, education, social services, etc.).
