This study evaluates the feasibility and impact of the Open Online Course (OOC) aimed at enhancing teachers' trauma-informed care practices during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Educators from two public primary schools in Queensland, Australia, completed the course. Twenty-six educators were interviewed about their experience of the OOC.…

A growing number of early childhood education (ECE) programs are using trauma-informed trainings to support teachers in better managing children's trauma-related challenging behaviors. However, there is not a great deal of research on how effective these programs are for improving children's school-related outcomes. This study examines whether a…

This study explores the role of creative arts in professional learning through a trauma-informed education (TIE) event for mentor and pre-service teachers. TIE requires educators to make complex relational shifts with students and to cultivate classrooms that promote safety, empathy, and empowerment. The professional learning event integrated…

Teacher use of trauma-informed practice (TIP) in the primary school classroom is an under-explored phenomenon. Classroom teachers are required to support students who are affected by trauma; however, the specific factors that indicate, determine or predict a teacher's use of trauma-informed practices are largely unresearched. New South Wales…

Purpose: Even amidst rampant efforts to censor and legislatively regulate queer-identifying people and books about them, many LGBTQ+ adults never had opportunities to see themselves reflected in classroom curriculum. In an effort to use emotions as a lens to understand discursive identity construction, this paper aims to explore how one…

While researchers have acknowledged student trauma as a source of stress for graduate students, clinicians, and social workers, little research has grappled with the substantial influence of student trauma on faculty and professionals working in higher education. The support and guidance required by students who have experienced trauma or acute…

Responding to transitional justice circumstances in Sri Lanka, Theatre of Friendship connects groups from Tamil, Sinhala and Muslim backgrounds. We use Playback Theatre as a participatory arts approach to transitional justice, working to build covenantal pluralism. As our work has evolved, we have extended the principle of emergence within…

Despite the massive global scale of gender-based violence, little attention has been given to its significance in mediating student-victim-survivors' experiences of higher education. We draw on and extend recent feminist theorizations of trauma as 'durational' to consider the significance of gender-based violence as a society-wide problem yet also…

This paper focuses on the play, "Pictures of That Summer ('Ano natsu no e')," which is inspired by the "Paintings of the Atomic Bomb" project in Hiroshima. Through an analysis of its dramatization, the paper develops a theoretical framework for investigating the generation of the collective memory of catastrophes through works…

This article discusses what resilience is and how to think about resilience from intersectional and neuroscience viewpoints. It provides practical resilience-building strategies that educators can apply in the classroom. Understanding resilience from different perspectives will help early childhood educators build resilience capacity in young…

The curvilinear relationship between academic help-seeking and the need for assistance is well-reported (Fong et al., 2021; Karabenick & Knapp, 1991). Within the help-seeking literature, the complexity of help-seeking for ethnically diverse students has been explained by a few studies that cite cultural differences in self-regulation in…

Children's experiences of animal fears can be caused by direct conditioning, experiencing negative events, or modeling others' fears or situations. The fear of an animal that develops in a child as a result of various experiences may turn into an animal phobia over time. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of EMDR interventions for two…

Discussions of trauma-informed practices tend to focus on student behaviors and strategies for managing those behaviors, rather than the circumstances students are experiencing. Critical educators have expressed concern that a focus on trauma-informed practices lead teachers to view students from marginalized backgrounds with a deficit lens,…

Studies suggest that among children, adverse childhood experiences increase the risk of developing behavioral challenges in and out of the school environment. Rooted in distributed leadership, trauma-leadership teams (TLTs) are a novel systems-based intervention in which a team of educators deepens knowledge and works to implement…

The primary objective of this qualitative case study was to explore the factors contributing to job stress among mental health providers who treat veterans diagnosed with trauma. The six participants were all licensed professional counselors in the Central Southwest who regularly treated veterans living with trauma. Data were obtained through…