Prevention Category

Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience

A Framework for Addressing and Preventing Community Trauma

1.5 CE Hour
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About the Course

This paper introduces a groundbreaking framework for understanding, addressing, and preventing community trauma, with a focus on the interplay between interpersonal violence, structural violence, and community resilience. It explores how community-level trauma manifests in the social-cultural, physical/built, and economic environments, highlighting its far-reaching impacts on public health and safety. The authors emphasize the need for community-based, culturally grounded strategies such as restorative justice and community building to promote resilience and prevent future trauma. This work serves as a resource for practitioners, policymakers, and community leaders to design holistic, multi-sectoral approaches to heal and strengthen communities.

This course is based on the reading-based online article, Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience created by Howard Pinderhughes, Ph.D. et al in 2015.

Publication Details

Publication Date: Prevention Institute Jan 2015

Course Material Authors

Course Material Authors authored the material only, and were not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Howard Pinderhughes, Ph.D.
Dr. Howard Pinderhughes is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at UC San Francisco. His research focuses on youth violence, racial health inequalities, and social change. He has authored multiple books and articles on violence prevention and health equity.
Rachel A. Davis, M.S.W.
Rachel A. Davis, M.S.W. is a co-director at Prevention Institute, specializing in public health and violence prevention. Her work focuses on community resilience and addressing structural violence. This is her first work published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Course Creator

L.A. Rankin

L.A. Rankin is a social worker with experience in many different settings with a variety of clients. She has worked with dementia and Alzheimers patients, dual diagnosis MH/MR, in a battered women’s shelter, and a rape crisis center. She also has 11 years of experience as a child protective social worker, where she earned certificates in domestic abuse/family violence and substance abuse.

Target Audience

Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Examine the symptoms and manifestations of trauma at the community level and its distinction from individual trauma.
  2. 2 Analyze the framework proposed for addressing community trauma, including strategies in social-cultural, physical/built, and economic environments.
  3. 3 Discuss how culturally rooted and community-driven interventions, like restorative justice and economic empowerment, can promote resilience and reduce trauma.

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Material Authors

Any relevant financial disclosures for course material authors can be found in the article.

Course Creator

L.A. Rankin – There are no relevant disclosures.

Commercial support

There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

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Course Details

1.5 CE Hours
Reading Online
Course 103644

Related Topics

Trauma Prevention Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Prevention Community Organization

Availability

This course is available until Jan 19th, 2035.

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