Free Online Trauma Courses

As we move towards a greater understanding of the importance of mental health, so our knowledge of the impact of trauma is improving. The following courses unpack crucial aspects of this universal emotional response:

1. Early Childhood Crisis and Trauma

Did you know that many mental health issues in adults can be traced back to events that occurred in their childhoods? This popular course explores what happens to children who live through profound crises.

2. Introduction to PTSD: Treating Trauma and Symptoms

Post-traumatic stress disorder can be debilitating to both the sufferer and their friends and family especially if they cope with substance abuse or are prone to violence and depression. This course explains PTSD and how various therapies can help.

3. Fundamentals of Trauma Processing

If you want to understand traumatic responses, you need to start with the basics. This course unpacks processing and overcoming past trauma and preventing future episodes, with symptoms and treatments explained in full.

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