Trauma Informed Care: Principles and Practices

Section 1 – Personal
Details
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Section 2 –
Qualification Details
Qualificatio
n Code:
CHC43315 Qualification
Title:
Certificate IV in Mental Health
Units Being Assessed:
Unit Code Unit Title
CHCMHS007 Work effectively in trauma informed care
Learner Declaration
I, ________________________________ (Learner Name), state that the attached assessment is my own work. I have
kept a copy of this assessment for future records.
Learner Signature Date
Section 3 – Feedback
Learner Feedback
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Time Spent Completing
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Additional
Comments:
Assessor Feedback
Student to resubmit
assessment Yes:
 No:
Additional
Comments:
, the majority of these answers will need
to be resubmitted. It is critical to for this
unit that you understand what trauma
informed practice is and that you are able
to demonstrate your understanding.
Please see my comments, I would
suggest organizing a time with me to do a
zoom session and go over some of the
content so you are clear in your
understanding.
Assessor Signature Date 6 / 10 / 2020

General Information
Resources to complete these units of competency may include
To establish overall competency for this unit you may utilise workplace resources such as the ones listed below.
You are not limited to, the following resources:
 Legislation
 Care Manual
 Aged Care Act
 Disability Act
 Mental Health Act
 Industry and organisation service standards
 Industry and organisation codes of practice/ethics
 Accreditation standards
 International and national charters
 Organisation policy and procedure
 Consumers/consumer/consumers/consumers
 Workplace documents
 Workplace
 Industry - web
Hints and Tips
 Attend all training sessions as this will assist with your knowledge and understanding of the unit
requirements.
 If you need assistance please contact your trainer/assessor and ask for it
Assessment Instructions
Assessment Process for the Learner
Recognition of Prior Skills (RPL)
If you feel you can demonstrate or have prior skills for this unit, it is recommended that you inform your assessor
and apply for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) for this.
Overall Assessment
As a learner you are required to demonstrate competency for each unit within your chosen qualification.
To achieve competency follow the steps below:
1. Knowledge Assessment – Written questions and Case Studies.
Additional Assessment
1. WHS and workplace practices will continue to be assessed throughout the course.
2. This assessment is completed holistically.
Conditions of Assessment
All work submitted must be your own work. Should you add content from other sources, please make sure this is
referenced in your assessment.
Assessment Process for the Assessor
Overall Assessment
Your learners are required to demonstrate competency for each unit within their chosen qualification.
Competency will need to be demonstrated through the following methods:
1. Knowledge Assessment – Written questions and Case Studies.
2. Completed assessor confirmation
Note: should the learner be required to re-submit or repeat the assessment, a new assessment (full or
partial) is to be provided to the learner with a new assessment cover sheet.
Wherever these boxes are located, the ATS assessor is to complete. S NS

Part A – WrittenQuestions
1. Write a paragraph to define the term “Trauma”. S
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NS
It is considered as traumatic event which involves a particular experience or multiple experience which
completely devastate or beat the person’s ability to cope and integrate the emotion and ideas related to the that
experience.
2. Outline your understanding of complex trauma? S
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It evaluates the both children’s exposure to several traumatic events, interpersonal nature and wide ranging for
the long term. This generally severe as well as pervasive such as profound neglect, abuse, harassment and so
on. Moreover it is also considered as cumulative, inter personally and repetitive generated as well as include
regular abuse that take place in respect of family as well as intimate relationship. The respective trauma take a
person to the risk of mental illness as well as complex post traumatic stress disorder which also impact on
physical health and development of psycho biological.
3. Explain how a person's sense of safety is affected as a result of the trauma that they
have experienced.
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When a person experience any trauma related to an accident then they always have fear for that due to which
when they realize any similar situation they get trauma attack because they not feel safe at specific situation.
Moreover there are several other aspects which show case that person's sense of safety is impacted as a result
of trauma which they experienced such as if a nice person experience trauma then it is considered that all bad
things happen to the good people. In addition to this, it is also determined that when people a person experience
trauma then it may leads to depression which impact on person's senses. For example a person who experience
trauma related to domestic violence then their person's sense get impacted such as they feel fear, anxiety,
depression, nightmares or sleep disturbances and so on. In addition to this, there are several factors which show
how a person sense of safety is impacted when they experienced trauma such as these person not feel safe at
any place, their sense of safety has get threatened, overwhelming emotional distress as well as it also related to
fight, freeze submit and flight in the respond to threat to safety.

4. Referring to the principles below provide two (2) examples to explain how you would
provide care and supports to meet the principles of trauma informed care.
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Principles Examples of care and supports
Trustworthiness 1. Properly interact with people for gaining their trust.
2. Provide respect and professional boundaries must be maintain. 
Choice and Control 1. In this a person get clear message related to their role, responsibilities and
rights.
2. According to this, it is essential that person to provide training and
guidance to team members so that they understand their role properly and
conduct work accordingly.
Empowerment 1. Involve individual in the decision making process as well as appraise them.
2. They must also provided atmosphere where a person fell validate and
affirmed along with the every contract with the firm.
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Language 1. Use common as well as easy language for interacting with one another at
the workplace.
2. Develop rule that every person use communion language which is
understand by everyone.
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Safety 1. Ensure the common areas are safe and proper which welcome people.
2. Individual must provide privacy so that they conduct their work properly.
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Collaboration 1. In this a person must respect, develop connection, hope and provide
information.
2. There must be proper involvement of individual in evaluating services.
Inclusiveness 1. Involve person in the decision making as well as update with all the recent
news and information.
2. Involve person in workshops and seminars.
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Diversity 1. Firm moves past cultural stereotypes as well as biases.
2. It also evaluated on the basis of trauma information approach related to
experience of trauma.
5. Describe four (4) things you could do to promote an environment of trust when you
are meeting a consumer for the first time.
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1 It is important to respond in the way which show that customer a person is heard to is revealing something
very important about their trauma experience.
2 In this it is also essential that a person must validate their experienced as well as any reaction which they have
in order to disclose demonstrates understand as well as non judgmental stance.
3 It is also essential that a person must ensure that customer is telling incident was a good thing as well as that
person can help customer.
4. the last practice is related is that it is essential to take care of a person who is experiencing trauma.