Suggested Centre Format
- Child Protection Policies, procedures and advisory capacity
- Mandatory reporting obligations -
- policy, legislaton, advice and support for Mandatory Reporters.
- Support for victimised Mandatory Reporters.
- activation of support for relevant survivors.
- support for Child Protection Officers - training, accreditation.
- support for family of Mandatory Reporters
- support for survivors.
The Centre Should have:
Post Grad, Doctoral and Post Doctoral research with input from stakeholders
particularly survivors needs and feedback from past therapy and support
to produce a body of knowledge
and survivor sensitive course imput
for Post Grad - Masters Degrees to be offered by Universities
Masters Degree in Sexual Assault Counselling.
the Degree should be at least 1-2 years full time by coursework and a Thesis
it should be interdisciplinary
it should be neurophysiological
an apreciation of professions survivors go to for support or treatment.
Entry - graduates in psychology, social work, counselling, criminology
Diploma or Graduate Diploma Courses for non Graduate counsellors
Diploma or Graduate Diploma courses for other professions who support survivors.
Masters Degree in Trauma Release
a two year full time or part time degree one year coursework, one year thesis by research.
inter disciplinary
neurophysiological
Graduate Diploma or Diploma Course
for non graduate practioners or Graduate Practioners without psychology or social work degrees.
suitable for non graduate counsellors
physiotherapists
remedial massages
EDMR
tapping and or shaking trauma release practioners.
non offending/ survivor sensitive Clergy and religious practioners.
whilst many survivors of clergy abuse are understandably vocal
accomodating their needs should not be to the exclusion of professional training of Clergy
as many survivors look to Clergy for support. Some find being referred to other
secular professionals as a compounding of abondonment and this ought to not be.
it might be appropriate to have courses specifically designed for clergy.
These courses should include at least one subject in
- understanding the History and Philosophy of science and the scientific method
- identifying and incorporating new variables and researching an understanding
- refering clienrts and interacting with other professionals.
It may be that once Degrees in Trauma release are established that Universities may offer specialised Degrees for trauma release in general with optional subjects for :
trauma release from traffic accidents and natural desasters
trauma release for vererans
other trauma
Advisory Groups - there should be advisory groups with at least 50% survivor representation to evaluate couyrses
of the 50% academics and representatives of professionals no more than 25% should be psychologists
with at least one allied professional and at least one GP representative.
Data Collection
It is suggested that Data Collection should be undertaken either on line
or by trauma informed trained Market Research interviewers whoes skill is recording the caller's information, views. opinions, sugestions but in an open format which is adaptive to an infinite aray of variables - some known from previous research and Royal Commission Reports
some unknown.
a complex matrix would need to be invented to record
variables and add new variables
on existing and to add new dimensions to individualist collation and non collations
to ensure that each unique life experience is recorded without imposing pre existant trends.
here should be no prevailing school of thought rather a model of discovery, of exploration of variables
minorities, no matter how small should be acredited and validated.