Trauma informed education for specialist practice

Trauma experienced in childhood and adolescence, can have a lifelong impact upon an individual’s physical and mental health. Therefore, the integration of trauma-informed education, within SCPHN training programmes was considered, in order to ensure school nurses, have the essential knowledge and skills, required to effectively deliver trauma informed care within their role in practice. This involved utilising a combination of theoretical frameworks such as life course epidemiology, psycho-social epidemiology and trauma informed principles in conjunction with a variety of pedagogies such as social constructivism, experiential learning and a strengths-based approach.