Story Based Practice with Children Who Have Experienced Trauma

In this course, practice development leader Dr. Daniel Moss, Ph.D., introduces a story-based, trauma-informed approach for engaging children and young people whose trauma histories may surface as withdrawal, school refusal, shutdown, or challenging behaviour. Using two detailed case examples, he outlines five practical "shifts" clinicians can apply to support agency, honour children's knowledge, and situate problems in context rather than fixed categories. The course highlights real-world ways to build collaborative conversations, elicit preferences and values, and translate insights into actionable supports in families, therapy rooms, and schools - helping clinicians move from correction and compliance to relationally safe, clinically purposeful accountability.