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Overview
This Understanding Vicarious Trauma course offered by CQUniversity Australia allows participants to build knowledge and understanding along with consolidating their learning and exchanging personal insight with colleagues.
Key facts
- Working in a caring profession can take its emotional toll on the practitioner. Assisting and supporting clients may result in a number of challenging interactions and can even result in vicarious trauma.
- The examination of particular challenges when working with vulnerable clients involves the ability to being attuned to and accepting of emotions in the context of working in human service provision.
- This requires understanding, addressing and preventing negative outcomes of vicarious trauma. Focus of attention will be on key elements of vicarious trauma and how to manage it effectively.
- Emotions influence physiological reactions and behaviours, which may result in reduced empathy, which impacts service provision. Therefore, being able to understand, address and prevent vicarious trauma is critically important for everyone working with vulnerable clients.
Career Opportunities
- Undertaking this micro-credential enables students to meet their Continuing Professional Development obligations and industry update requirements in their profession.
- Upon successful completion of the course, students will be awarded Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours, a non-creditable micro-credential (Digital Badge) and a Certificate of Completion.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- To obtain additional information about the program, we kindly suggest that you visit the programme website, where you can find further details and relevant resources.
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 1 days
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
- Self-paced
Disciplines
Psychology View 22 other Short Courses in Psychology in AustraliaWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
CRICOS: 00219C
- There are no specific entry requirements, however, students enrolling in this course should work in the healthcare profession.
- The micro-credentials are available for anyone to access. You do not have to be a CQUniversity student.
Tuition Fee
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International
90 AUD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 90 AUD for the full programme during 1 days. -
National
90 AUD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 90 AUD for the full programme during 1 days.
Funding
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