Trauma-Aware Parenting CPD Course

Trauma-Aware Parenting CPD Course is a self-paced video course for practitioners, educators and caregivers working with children and families.

Prerequisites: none. Open to all; no prior qualification or study in trauma theory is assumed.

It examines how a caregiver's own nervous system, attachment history and unresolved trauma shape their responses under stress, then builds outward into child development, regulation and repair.

Content covers types of trauma and states of the nervous system; attachment styles and parentification; co-regulation from birth to 18 years; emotional mirroring and intergenerational transmission; brain development and children's core needs; fight, flight, freeze and fawn responses; somatic and regulation practices by age band; supporting neurodivergent children; recognising trauma in children; adolescence; screens; and co-parenting and family dynamics.

Delivered by Melissa Hiemann and Tara Russell, with a guest module from psychologist Monica Wright.