Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Children and Adolescents Impacted by Trauma

Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Children and Adolescents Impacted by Trauma is a self-paced online training course designed to equip you with practical, compassionate and trauma-responsive strategies to support children and adolescents whose behaviour, emotional regulation and relationships have been shaped by trauma, chronic stress, adversity or unsafe environments.

Through this tailored trauma-informed training, you will develop an understanding of how trauma and chronic stress can affect the developing brain, emotional regulation, behaviour and relationships. You will explore how survival responses—including fight, flight, freeze and fawn—may present in everyday situations and sometimes contribute to behaviours of concern.

You will learn how to create emotionally safe, predictable and supportive environments that reduce potential triggers, strengthen regulation and promote a young person’s sense of safety, trust and connection.

The course also explores how Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) can be applied within a trauma-responsive framework to understand why behaviours occur, identify contributing factors and triggers, develop proactive and preventative strategies, reduce the likelihood of escalation, and respond to distress in ways that are respectful, person-centred and supportive.

By integrating trauma-responsive principles with Positive Behaviour Support, the course will help you move beyond simply responding to behaviour and instead consider what the young person may be communicating, what has contributed to their response, and what support they need to feel safe, regulated and understood.

You will have 12 months from the date of purchase to complete this self-paced e-learning course.