PYMAWT-Advanced Skills for Working with Trauma

Module Provider: Psychology
Number of credits: 20 [10 ECTS credits]
Level:7
Terms in which taught: Summer term module
Pre-requisites:
Non-modular pre-requisites: A pre-requirement for studying these modules is to have passed PYMIN1 or PYMIN3 in either the current qualification programme, or in previous qualifications gained with CWI
Co-requisites:
Modules excluded:
Current from: 2023/4

Module Convenor: Dr Melissa Snaith
Email: m.h.snaith@reading.ac.uk

Type of module:

Summary module description:

This module will focus on helping students developed advanced skills in working with specific client populations, such as refugees and asylum seekers, veterans etc., including those who have experienced complex and enduring (type II) trauma. Special considerations (such as ethical, lifespan and cultural issues) and evidence-based practice for these clients will be covered. Workshops will also be aimed at developing specific advanced techniques, such as imagery re-scripting.

The aims of the module are to:

1. Provide students with a choice from a range of workshops that focus on specific and complex client groups.


2. Develop advanced skills in working with specific areas of PTSD, such as working with shame-based traumas, PTSD within a perinatal context and working with refugees and asylum seekers (see below for a full-list of workshops available).


3. To build on skills gained during ‘Basic Skills for Working with Trauma’ module to work with a more complex client group.


4. Train students in understanding the theory and gaining skills to work with enduring or complex PTSD.


5. Help students develop specialist areas of interest in working in PTSD.


6. To constructively discuss the clinical work of themselves and others presented in small discussion groups.

Aims:

 This module will focus on helping students developed advanced skills in working with specific client populations, such as refugees and asylum seekers, veterans etc., including those who have experienced complex and enduring (type II) trauma. Special considerations (such as ethical, lifespan and cultural issues) and evidence-based practice for these clients will be covered. Workshops will also be aimed at developing specific advanced techniques, such as imagery re-scripting.

 The aims of the module are to:

1. Provide students with a choice from a range of workshops that focus on specific and complex client groups.


2. Develop advanced skills in working with specific areas of PTSD, such as working with shame-based traumas, PTSD within a perinatal context and working with refugees and asylum seekers (see below for a full-list of workshops available).


3. To build on skills gained during ‘Basic Skills for Working with Trauma’ module to work with a more complex client group.


4. Train students in understanding the theory and gaining skills to work with enduring or complex PTSD.


5. Help students develop specialist areas of interest in working in PTSD.


6. To constructively discuss the clinical work of themselves and others presented in small discussion groups.

Assessable learning outcomes:

- Students’ understanding of their chosen workshops, areas of current research and its application in the treatment of more complex psychological trauma will be assessed through a knowledge and skills exam. This will be assessed via the Knowledge Assessment.

Additional outcomes:

•  Students will gain confidence in working with clients with more complex PTSD.


•  Academically, students will develop skills in critical appraisal of research and develop theory-practice links.


•  Reflective practice will be integrated as part of all workshops within the module.


•  Students will also develop and apply skills in self-care.

Outline content:

 A total of five days’ teaching must be completed. All workshops will be presented by specialists in the field. The choice of workshops includes working with specific populations of clients or in advanced skills in working with complex (type II) psychological trauma and will cover topics such as:

•  Trauma and psychosis


•  PTSD following childbirth and perinatal loss


•  Working with veterans


•  Working with refugees and asylum seekers


•  Working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse


•  Traumatic bereavement


•  Compassion-focused therapy for shame-based trauma

Brief description of teaching and learning methods:

The aims of this module will be achieved through a series of workshops, which will incorporate lectures, role-plays, and small group discussions.

Contact hours:

5 workshop days = 28.75 hours

Total contact hours for this module will be a minimum of 200, to include teaching workshops and guided independent study.

Contact hours:

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Lectures			28.75
Guided independent study:			171.25
Total hours by term			200
Total hours for module	200

Summative Assessment Methods:

Method	Percentage
Class test administered by School	100

Summative assessment- Examinations:
2 hours

Summative assessment- Coursework and in-class tests:

 Knowledge Assessment

The questions include an assessment of the students' (i) knowledge of the theory they have learned and (ii) knowledge of the treatment resulting from that theory.

Formative assessment methods:

Penalties for late submission:

The below information applies to students on taught programmes except those on Postgraduate Flexible programmes. Penalties for late submission, and the associated procedures, which apply to Postgraduate Flexible programmes are specified in the policy “Penalties for late submission for Postgraduate Flexible programmes”, which can be found here: https://www.reading.ac.uk/cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/cqsd-old-site-documents/penaltiesforlatesubmissionpgflexible.pdf
The Support Centres will apply the following penalties for work submitted late:

• where the piece of work is submitted after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): 10% of the total marks available for that piece of work will be deducted from the mark for each working day (or part thereof) following the deadline up to a total of five working days;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than five working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): a mark of zero will be recorded.

The University policy statement on penalties for late submission can be found at: https://www.reading.ac.uk/cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/cqsd-old-site-documents/penaltiesforlatesubmission.pdf
You are strongly advised to ensure that coursework is submitted by the relevant deadline. You should note that it is advisable to submit work in an unfinished state rather than to fail to submit any work.

Assessment requirements for a pass:
50%. A minimum of 80% attendance is required.

Reassessment arrangements:
Students who do not obtain the required pass mark in the assessment will be given one further attempt. The re-sit grade cannot exceed 50%.

Additional Costs (specified where applicable):

1) Required text books: None

2) Specialist equipment or materials: None

3) Specialist clothing, footwear or headgear: None

4) Printing and binding: None

5) Computers and devices with a particular specification: None

6) Travel, accommodation and subsistence: None

Last updated: 30 March 2023