This course runs continuously, so you can sign up at any time. It offers five hours of self-directed online learning which you can undertake at a time, pace and location that suits you.

You will have access to the course and its materials for one year. Access begins the day after you’ve booked, when you will receive your account details by email.

This mini course is also available as part of the Understanding and Nurturing Troubled Children course bundle, a convenient option that offers one year’s access to four complementary courses.

This course will allow you to:

• define abuse, neglect and trauma – identifying the differences between them, and their significant, long-term effects on children and young people
• analyse the powerful links between adverse early experiences and later life trajectories, exploring a range of physical and psychological outcomes
• gain an understanding of resilience and post-traumatic growth – observing how positive experiences, emotions and relationships can lead to real change

There are no specific requirements for the course, although we suggest you are working with, or have an interest in working with children, or want to learn more about the effects of difficult early experiences on children’s minds and behaviours.

There’s a multiple choice question assessment at the end of the course, which provides access to your Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust CPD certificate upon completion.