Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
This course provides an overview of PTSD, helping learners understand its causes, symptoms, and how traumatic experiences can affect mental health, behaviour, and everyday functioning.
Learning Outcomes
The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness course provides learners with a clear understanding of PTSD and how it can affect individuals following traumatic experiences. Participants will explore the clinical aspects of PTSD, gaining insight into how the condition develops and how it impacts thoughts, emotions, and behaviour.
The course raises awareness of the common signs and symptoms of PTSD, such as flashbacks, heightened anxiety, avoidance, sleep disturbance, and emotional numbness. Learners will also explore the relationship between stress and trauma, helping them understand how overwhelming or prolonged stress can lead to lasting psychological effects.
Participants will examine common triggers that can bring on or worsen PTSD symptoms, including specific sights, sounds, situations, or memories. By understanding triggers, learners can better recognise distress and respond in a supportive and appropriate way.
The course also introduces the range of treatment and support options available for people living with PTSD, including therapeutic approaches and coping strategies. By the end of the session, learners will have greater awareness of PTSD, its causes, and how informed understanding can help support recovery and wellbeing.
By the end of this course, participants will understand what PTSD is, how trauma and stress contribute to it, how to recognise its signs and triggers, and the range of treatment options available to support recovery and wellbeing.
- Understand the clinical element of PTSD
- Awareness of the signs and symptoms
- Have an awareness of the triggers for PTSD
- Gain an awareness of the treatment options
- £38.50(LSCP Members)
- £50.00(Non-Members)
In order to attend any of these sessions a booking form needs to be completed (even for sessions ‘Free to Members’, as we need to account for room capacity and a fair distribution of free places among organisations).