Trauma

Learn how to teach and support young people across the globe affected by violence, conflict or displacement. Find out how to help students dealing with trauma. You’ll hear from experienced teachers talking about the challenges, what they learnt, and strategies they have used when teaching migrant and refugee learners [...]

Explore the traumatic effects of WW1 on soldiers and civilians. Discover how we remember and debate the history of this war. In this free online course, you will study the social, cultural, medical and diplomatic history of the First World War. Topics range from physical and mental trauma suffered [...]

Learn how to identify, assess the risk for, prevent and treat PTSD in a range of contexts. Learn about PTSD - its symptoms, prevalence, causes and treatment. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the mental disorder most commonly associated with exposure to trauma. PTSD results from exposure to traumas which [...]

Find out how poems, plays and novels can help us understand and cope with deep emotional strain in this free online course. The great 18th century writer Dr Samuel Johnson, who suffered from severe bouts of depression, said “the only end of writing is to enable the reader better [...]