WCDHW People Development Centre Online School

This course covers the following content:

1. Responding to trauma

• Introductions: Training learning outcomes, How this training works.
• Understanding the trauma response: Thoughts, feelings and behaviours, Fight, flight, freeze responses. Self-reflection on how these impact on how to care fully in a consultation.
• Self-care: How to care for oneself so that you can care for others.
• Communicating with care: Reiterate the do's and don’t's of communicating effectively from PACK.
• Medicolegal responsibilities: Batho Pele principles, Confidentiality, Reporting obligations, Consent.

2. Steps to guide safe practice

PART 1: definitions and management of the adult victim-survivor

• Legal definitions of sexual offences.
• Your approach to victim-survivors of sexual offences.
• The path a victim-survivor follows to get the right help.
• Step 1: Inform/provide emergency medical care and  management of the adult.

PART 2: Management of the adult victim-survivor continued

• Step 2: inform adult about legal options/mandatory reporting if applicable.
• Step 3: non-urgent medical care, referral, recording  and follow up of the adult victim-survivor.

PART 3: management of children who have been sexually abused (appropriate guidelines for those <18 years old)

• Step 1: provide emergency medical care & management of the child. 
• Step 2: reporting processes for the child.
• Step 3: non-urgent medical care, referral, recording, and follow up, of the child.

3. Working within your facility: health system strengthening

• Using the resources in your health facility: Facility supplies, facility staff, essential services and process flow.
• Using the resources in your community: Mapping support networks in the community.

4. Self-care for the HCW: utilising the services available

• Self-care and stress management resources.
• How to have a supportive team conversation.
• Useful support services.