Level 3 Certificate in
Trauma -Informed Life Story Work
Level 3 Certificate in Trauma-Informed Life Story Work
The qualification is aimed at supporting professionals (social workers, family support workers, children’s support workers, and therapists) who support children, young people, and their families to navigate the often challenging process of life story work.
The Level 3 Certificate in Trauma-Informed Life Story Work consists of six units:
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Unit 1 Understanding the Importance of Trauma-Informed Life Story Work. This unit explains the concept of trauma-informed life story work and how it can support individuals who have experienced trauma.
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Unit 2 Making sense of the child’s history: This unit emphasises the importance of communicating a child or young person's story in a way that is appropriate for their stage of development.
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Unit 3 Understanding the child or young person: Here, the learners will understand the importance of recognising a child's emotional age and implementing appropriate life story work, as well as the need to identify the implications of unprocessed trauma when working with a child's life story.
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Unit 4 Communicating difficult histories: This unit develops learners understanding of how to navigate a child or young person's life narrative sensitively, identifying strategies to help them recognise unmet needs, and overcome obstacles.
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Unit 5 Triggers in and outside of the session, behaviours, and how to support them: This unit focuses on triggers that occur both in and outside of a life story work session, as well as behaviours associated with trauma.
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Unit 6: Looking after yourself: In this unit, learners will understand how to prioritise self-care and well-being to effectively support children and young people through trauma-informed life story work.
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Accreditation & Certification information
Our course has been accredited by NCFE CACHE, an awarding organisation recognised by the qualification regulators for England and Wales. NCFE CACHE’s regulators are the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) in England and the Welsh Government in Wales.
Accreditation & Eligibility to join ACCPH
The Qualification is also accredited by The Independent Professional Body and Register for Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists (ACCPH) This means that on successful completion of the qualification, you will be eligible to join their accredited association. To find out more about the association and joining fees click here.
Programme Benefits
This qualification helps the learner to develop the necessary skills to create a safe and supportive environment for the children, young people, and their families.
This will enable them to successfully implement a strategy that prioritises the child's well-being and helps them create a positive narrative about their life story.
Programme Length
The course is mainly online - learners are also required to attend 2 days throughout the course, 1 requires virtual attendance and 1 requires in-person attendance at our training centre in Gloucestershire.
The flexible learning schedule allows professionals to balance work commitments while acquiring new skills. This program can be completed over a 6-month period, with each unit opening every 4 weeks to ensure a manageable pace. This means you will have approximately 4 weeks to complete each unit of study. Additionally, after completing a unit, you will have the opportunity to use the time before the next unit opens to prepare for any upcoming directed study tasks, such as reading the allocated books on the reading list which tasks are allocated to, you will find at the end of this enrolment section.
Please note: The qualifications are predominantly studied online through a learning platform; therefore, it is a prerequisite for applicants to be ICT/computer literate.
Training Days
Day 1 In-person training - Wednesday 6th November 2024, 9:30 am - 4: 00 pm at our training centre in Gloucestershire - details will be given on enrolment.
Next in-person to be confirmed - please contact inspire@coect.co.uk for more details.
Day 2 Online Live Training - Monday 10th February 10 am- 2:30 pm. A link to the training will be given to learners by their tutor nearer to the time.
Qualification Costs
£1494 Per Person *
£1159.20 For NATP Members.*
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Monthly
6 monthly payments £258.00*
6 monthly payments £200.00 for NATP members.*
*Inclusive of VAT.
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