CPCA Development Course
- This course does not give any equivalence to any ASQA approved course.
- This course will award a certificate on completion and 8 OPD points.
- Purchasing this course will allow you access to the content for 6 months.
In this course
- Chapter 1: Trauma-informed care work
- Principles and practices of trauma-informed care
- Promoting a safe environment
- Promoting secure relationships
- Chapter 2: Nature of trauma
- Nature of trauma
- Chapter 3: Impacts of trauma
- Sense of self
- Relationships
- Development of mental health issues
- Chapter 4: Legislation and ethical considerations
- Specific legislative requirements related to trauma
- Codes of practice
- Discrimination
- Dignity of risk
- Duty of care
- Human rights
- Informed consent
- Mandatory reporting
- Practice standards
- Privacy, confidentiality, and disclosure
- Policy frameworks
- Records management
- Industry rights and responsibilities
- Workplace boundaries
- Work health and safety
- Chapter 5: Definitions and core principles of care
- Prevalence of trauma with service users and the public
- Evidence-based practice requirements
- Role flashbacks and triggers
- Trauma impacts on development
- Interpersonal violence
- Common beliefs and attitudes
- Recovery approaches
- Chapter 6: Significance of loss and grief
- Significance of loss and grief
- Chapter 7: Responding to trauma
- Responding to disclosure of past trauma
- Responding to disclosure of current trauma
- Responding to trauma-related behaviours and distress
- Conflict resolution and negotiation techniques
- Chapter 8: Managing trauma
- Identifying strengths
- Identifying personal resources
- Coping strategies and adaptations
- Barriers to implementing trauma-informed care
- Change management
- Strategies to promote workplace trauma-informed practice
- Chapter 9: Change theories and frameworks
- Theories
- Models of behaviour
- Chapter 10: Suicide, self-harm, and interpersonal trauma
- Interpersonal trauma
- Self-harm
- Suicidality
- Chapter 11: Self-care strategies
- Vicarious trauma self-care strategies
- Re-traumatisation self-care strategies
- Immediate and long-term strategies
- Chapter 12: Self-advocacy and referral options
- Self-advocacy and referral options
- Chapter 13: Reflection
- Personal reflection
- Organisational reflection
- Peer supervision
- Client feedback
- Chapter 14: Enhancing future service delivery
- Enhancing future service delivery
- Assessment


