Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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Wilson, Victoria. 2017. "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)." The Inaugural Australasian Mental Health and Higher Education Conference 2017. Townsville, QLD, Australia 30 Jun - 01 Jul 2017 Australia.
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Presentation TypePresentation
AuthorsWilson, Victoria
Journal Citationpp. 18-18
Number of Pages1
Year2017
Place of PublicationAustralia
ISBN9780995447059
Web Address (URL) of Conference Proceedingshttps://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/49654/
Conference/EventThe Inaugural Australasian Mental Health and Higher Education Conference 2017
Event Details
The Inaugural Australasian Mental Health and Higher Education Conference 2017
Event Date
30 Jun 2017 to end of 01 Jul 2017
Event Location
Townsville, QLD, Australia
Event Venue
James Cook University
Event Web Address (URL)
Abstract

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) will affect approximately five to ten percent of the population over the course of a lifetime. With 65 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, it is inevitable that English as a Second Language (ESL) programs in Australian universities will see an increase in traumatised students. PTSD has been proven to change the brain, affecting learning, cognition, mood, and the ability to focus. However, to ignore or exclude traumatised learners is neither practical nor ethical, leaving both learners and educators unsupported. While schools in Australia and abroad are instituting trauma-informed pedagogy to transform the learning of younger students, the teaching of traumatised adults has yet to become mainstream practice, particularly within ESL programs.
This presentation aims to raise awareness of PTSD and adult language learning, showing how trauma affects the brain and the implications for the second language classroom. It explains how common teaching materials and interactions can trigger PTSD symptoms, and looks at how the ESL classroom can be both trauma-sensitive and pedagogically sound. Drawing on research from neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, second language acquisition and critical pedagogies, it proposes ways for educators to create trauma-informed classrooms and points out directions for future research.

KeywordsPTSD, trauma-informed, TESOL
Contains Sensitive ContentDoes not contain sensitive content
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020470306. English as a second language
390108. LOTE, ESL and TESOL curriculum and pedagogy
440999. Social work not elsewhere classified
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