Selected Resources
Trauma Informed Pedagogy in Higher Education: A Faculty Guide for Teaching and Learning by This volume explores the current state of student mental health and trauma while offering theories and practice of trauma informed teaching and learning. The interdisciplinary authors gathered in this collection discuss the roles, practices, and structures in higher education that can support the wellness and academic success of students who suffer from the effects of traumatic experiences. Chapters cover topics on teaching traumatic materials ethically and effectively, reading and writing to support recovery and healing from trauma, inclusive pedagogies responsive to systemically inflicted trauma, and developing institutional structures to support trauma informed pedagogies.
Cultivating Trauma-informed Practice in Student Affairs by Offering a multi-tiered approach to supporting college students who have experienced trauma, this book considers how trauma manifests for postsecondary college students and how colleges and universities can implement trauma-informed practice in student affairs. Author Tricia Shalka offers knowledge about trauma and its trajectories to help ground trauma-informed practice, before translating this knowledge into specific strategies that span a spectrum of individual and systems level efforts in colleges and universities. The story of college student trauma is presented through several different lenses, including discussions around the research literature, what the author's research participants offer, and the author's own personal experience with trauma.
Supporting Student and Faculty Wellbeing in Graduate Education by Supporting Student and Faculty Wellbeing in Graduate Education recognizes new pressures impacting graduate students and their supervisors, teachers, and mentors globally. The work provides a range of insights and strategies which reflect on wellbeing as an integral part of teaching, learning, policy, and student-mentor relationships. The authors offer a uniquely holistic approach to supporting the wellbeing of both students and academic staff in graduate education. The text showcases optimized approaches to self-care, self-regulation, and policy development, as well as trauma-informed, arts-based, and embodied pedagogies. Particular attention is given to the challenges faced by minority groups including Indigenous, international, refugee, and immigrant students and staff. Providing a timely analysis of the current issues surrounding student and faculty wellbeing, this volume will appeal to scholars and researchers working across the fields of higher education, sociology of education, educational psychology, and student affairs.
Understanding Vulnerability and Resilience: A Guide for Professional Staff Who Work With Vulnerable Others by This book offers an accessible and evidence-based approach for professional staff to improve their interactions with vulnerable people. Each chapter focuses on factors that create vulnerability and those that promote resilience with reference to important subjects, such as child development, epigenetics, trauma, shame, addiction, poverty, emotional intelligence, personality, empathy, compassion, and behaviour-change.
