Building Resilience After Trauma

Inside this course

When a child has lived through something frightening or overwhelming, parents are often given two competing messages: that the child is now permanently changed and fragile, or that with enough positivity they will simply 'bounce back. ' Neither is accurate, and both can quietly get in the way of real recovery. This course is built around a more precise and more hopeful idea — post-traumatic growth — which is not a slogan about silver linings, but a well-documented pattern in which children and families, given the right conditions, emerge from adversity with genuine new strengths: a deeper sense of what matters, closer relationships, a more resilient sense of self.

You'll finish with

• Distinguish genuine post-traumatic growth from performative positivity or premature 'moving on'
• Understand the concept of agency and why rebuilding it, in small doses, is central to recovery
• Use graded, low-stakes opportunities to restore a child's sense of competence and control