Aim

To provide researchers and professionals/practitioners with coping strategies to manage their social and emotional wellbeing when they engage with distressing material

Key learning outcomes

• To understand the reasons content is emotionally demanding, and how that interacts with professional and home contexts?
• To be able to design and implement effective coping strategies to prevent or intervene against negative experiences associated with exposure to distressing material
• To create a professional toolkit to manage and evaluate emotional wellbeing in the context of exposure to distressing material.

Course Outline

The course will be split into 3, 3 hour themes, released over 3 weeks.

Each theme will contain 3 learning blocks of contents, each 1 hour long and split into 4x 15-minute activities including videos, audio, applied tasks and a reading.