Trauma informed care

This animation was developed by NHS Education for Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Government. It is designed to be relevant to all workers within the Scottish workforce. It aims to support workers to know how to adapt the way they work to make a positive difference to people affected by trauma and adversity.

Target audience: All health and social care staff/ other

Type of learning: Online tutorial

Provider: NHS Education for Scotland (in Partnership with the Scottish Government)

Associated costs: Free

This animation was developed by NHS Education for Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Government. It is designed to be relevant to all workers within the Scottish workforce who work with children and young people. It aims to support staff to understand the impact of trauma and to know how to adapt the way they work to make a positive difference to the lives of children and young people affected by trauma.

Target audience: All health and social care staff/ other

Type of learning: Online tutorial

Provider: NHS Education for Scotland (in Partnership with the Scottish Government)

Associated costs: Free

Target audience: All health and social care staff/ other

Type of learning: Online tutorial

Provider: NHS Education for Scotland (in Partnership with the Scottish Government)

Associated costs: Free

The learning journey will be an ongoing and adaptive process which fosters a trauma-sensitive culture throughout all health and social care settings. The endpoint will be all staff understanding the impact of actual, potential and vicarious trauma on the lives of those who access services, and those who work within them, in order to reduce the potential for trauma to cause lasting harm and instead promoting post traumatic growth. 

By the end of the session you will be able to:

• explain how basic neurobiology and life experiences interact
• articulate what humans may perceive as threat and that threats may be psychological as well as physical
• describe how our experiences influence who we are and affect how we might follow a certain path in our lives
• explain how our experiences from birth are important for our development

Target audience: All health and social care staff 

Type of learning: Online 

Provider: E Learning for Healthcare (NHS England)

Associated costs: Free

Working in a role supporting others in difficult circumstances can affect your own psychological, physical and spiritual wellbeing. This e-learning module will increase your knowledge of what neuroscience is teaching about the long-term impact of helping others and how you can sustainably protect yourself. It’ll help you to put in place proactive and sustainable self-care strategies that enable you to stay well, become more resilient and, if needed, recover from vicarious traumatisation. 

You will be able to know the difference between burnout and vicarious traumatisation, recognise signs and symptoms in yourself and colleagues, and then build in self-care strategies to stay well

There are also useful activities around our transactional analysis‘ drivers which can sometimes get in the way of our own progress such as: people pleasing; never being late; always being ‘strong’ and being perfect, all of which can be invisible and ingrained. The exercises will help you to bring these to your conscious awareness

Target audience: All health and social care staff 

Type of learning: Online 

Provider: Macmillan 

Associated costs: Free