Find out how traumatic events impact mental health and what can be done to support sufferers with Alison’s free online trauma courses. We recommend Mental Health Studies - Understanding Behaviour, Burnout and Depression for training in understanding and supporting people with different mental illnesses that is worthwhile for laypeople as well as professionals. Fundamentals of Trauma Processing gives basic training in helping patients or clients to identify and process any traumatic experiences that are impacting their lives. We can also recommend Treating Trauma using DBTto mental health professionals who are interested in dialectical behavioural therapy as an alternative to CBT. 

Even if you are not studying trauma as part of a qualification or for career advancement, it is still useful to understand it. You may see why divorce, addiction, abuse, depression and other major life upsets occurred because of underlying untreated and unrecognised trauma. It can help your mental health enormously to learn more about how violence, war, sex crimes and even poverty can trigger a trauma response.

It is not only therapists and psychologists who work with trauma. Almost every career that involves working with vulnerable people will be enhanced by taking free courses on trauma, such as: 

• Social worker
• Teacher
• Police officer
• Lawyer
• Carer

Even politicians, writers and documentary makers will find they understand their constituents or audiences better if they study the causes and effects of trauma on us.

Remember, Alison courses:

• Have no monthly subscription fees
• Have no registration fees
• Have no enrollment fees
• Have no limit on how many courses you can do
• Have no time limit on completing a course