Repeated exposure to abuse, social exclusion and rejection has had a devastating affect on the people we support. Trauma affects the way our brains develop and function and it leaves a lasting impression. Welcome to our new module titled ‘Trauma-Informed Care’ written by Karyn Harvey.
This module will help you to understand the biology of trauma. This module will help you to be able to recognize, and most importantly support and heal the trauma that people have experienced.
Learning Outcomes for This Module
On successful completion of this module, you will be able to
– Identify and be sensitive to the trauma that many people have experienced.
– Describe the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
– Understand and support the key ingredients to healing.
– Implement practices that support the power of positivity and the five levels of happiness.
It might seem odd that a professional would ignore someone who is drowning. But as David Pitonyak explains, this happens all the time in our field. People who have disabilities and difficult behavior are often overboard and terrified, and we barely seem to notice.
About the module: Jumping Into the Chaos by David Pitonyak
David Pitonyak has a way of understanding and communicating the needs of people who have been labelled as having challenging behavior that is profoundly straightforward. This module offers a unique compilation of tips gleaned from David’s library of adventure books (most particularly, Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm). Often people with challenging behavior are overboard, drowning, terrified, and we barely seem to notice.
David Pitonyak explains the ways in which people can change physiologically and psychologically in the face of threat and helps us to understand why remaining calm and clear of purpose is critical to the well-being of a person in crisis.
This module features presentations from David Pitonyak, Beth Mount, and Doreen Kelly.
On successful completion of this module, learners will be able to:
– Understand the ways in which we change physiologically and psychologically in the face of threat.
– Understand why remaining calm and clear of purpose is critical to the well-being of a person in crisis.
– Contribute to a crisis support plan based on the unique needs of the individual served.
– Understand the importance of a support plan for the person’s supporters based on their unique needs.
Direct support staff can now use the time they spend with the people they support to help those people to learn about relationships, dating, and intimacy. We proudly launch this new three part series of Side by Side module written by Dave Hingsburger.
These modules have been designed to help the people you support to develop a wide range of relationships in a more confident and safe way.
Side by Side learning is a concept unique to Open Future Learning. Side by Side modules allow the people who receive support and the people who provide support to learn together.
Part 1 of this three-part series has been designed to help people to have a good healthy relationships.
After completing this module, you will be able to:
– Understand what give-and-tanke and sharing and caring mean in a relationship.
– Explain some different ways that two people can be nice to one another.
– Understand how to respect and take care of another person’s feelings.
– Explain what consent means and what it means in terms of sex.
Part 2 of this three-part series has been designed to help you become more comfortable with dating.
After completing this module, you will be able to:
– Describe how, where, and when you might meet someone.
– Understand the importance of getting to know, liking and spending time with people first.
– Explain how to ask someone out.
– Describe good ways of dealing with rejection.
Part 3 in this three-part series has been designed to help you learn the rules around being sexual with another person.
After completing this module, you will be able to:
– Understand what it means to be intimate with another person.
– Explain that you only become intimate with and have sex with another person when you both have made a decision to do so.
– Describe why it matters when and where yo have sec and the importance of being safe.
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